Unit 1 - Readings & Viewings

Please read for our first class the following short non-legal materials:

List of countries by GDP sector composition (Wikipedia)

Gene Grossman, “What Trade Deals Are Good For” (Harvard Business Review, May 24, 2016)

Jeffrey Wilson, “Multilateral, bilateral, regional:  Which agreement is best?” (The Conversation, November 15, 2013)

Daniel Moss, “View:  Revived TPP Shows Trade Will Go On Without the US” (Bloomberg.com, March 9, 2018)

Vinod Aggarwal, “The Liberal Trade Order Under Assault:  A US Perspective” (Global Asia, Winter 2016)

Schieffer, Schwartz & Reinsch, "U.S.-China Trade Deal Phase 1, On the truth of the matter."  Washington, CSIS, January 22, 2020 (transcript)

Jacob Fromer, “Donald Trump hints lack of interest in U.S.-China Phase 2 trade deal,” SCMP, 07/1/20.

Sean Sullivan & Jeff Stein, “Politics:  Biden releases U.S.-centered economic plan, challenging Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda" (Washington Post, 07/09/20); or should you have paywall issues, read the Biden campaign document directly.

Vinod Aggarwal, “The Rise of Mega-FTAs in the Asia-Pacific” (Asian Survey, 2016)

Bankpedia, “Singapore Issues”

WTO, “Understanding the WTO:  Cross-Cutting and New Issues:  Investment, Competition, Procurement, Simpler Procedures” (bear in mind that a decision was made in 2002 that the 1996 Singapore issues other than trade facilitation, or simpler procedures in WTO terms, should be dropped from the Doha Round negotiations)

Ruta, "How the war in Ukraine is reshaping world trade and investment" (World Bank blog "Let's Talk Development" 05/02/22)

White House, Fact Sheet:  "In Asia, President Biden and a Dozen Indo-Pacific Partners Launch the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity" (05/23/22)

Ashe Center, Harvard Kennedy School, "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework holds value, but it's unclear whether it will counter China's influence says senior economist David Dapice"