World Trade Organization

Rehabilitating protection and resituating trade agreements

A March 27 article by Marc Busch on The Hill calls on the U.S. government to launch a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) over Mexico’s proposed decree to ban the herbicide glyphosate and the planting and importation of genetically-modified (GM) corn. The argument mischaracterizes the science on glyphosate, the decree and the role of U.S. trade policy.

A new leader for a new era: A WTO Agenda for the 2020s

Written for and originally published in IISD Trade and Sustainability Review, Volume 1, Issue 2, March 2021. 

Detener la carrera al barranco en la política comercial

Publicado en The American Prospect, 15 de marzo de 2021.   

Stopping the race to the bottom in trade policy

The following op-ed was published originally on The American Prospect. Republished with permission below. 

Hopes for new beginnings on US trade policy

This article first appeared as part of the "On the Precipice: The Progressive Agenda in the Biden Era" for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office. 

Trade and market policy

An excerpt from the book "Transformation of our food systems — the making of a paradigm shift" by United Nations' World Agriculture Report (IAASTD) members.