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America’s Uneasy History with Free Trade

Harvard Business

President Bush also pursued agreement in the WTO’s multilateral Doha Round, launched in 2001, but divisions between advanced and developing nations led to a stalemate. Changes in political support for free trade. From the 1930s through the 1980s, the basic U.S. political fault line on trade was economic. -led

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Why the WTO Should Constrain the Power of China’s State-Owned Enterprises

Harvard Business

But a broader consensus is already emerging among developed and poor countries alike that we need far-stronger global rules on SOE’s, backed up by binding dispute settlement that allows retaliation when the rules are violated.