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Seattle and beyond: A WTO agenda for the new millennium
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Brink Lindsey, Daniel T. Griswold, Mark A. Groombridge, and Aaron Lukas
Country: United States

This paper recommends that the WTO's November meeting be centered around reducing trade barriers on services and agriculture. Tariffs across the board should be cut or eliminated. The report is in PDF format. (11/4/99)

WTO Report Card: America’s Economic Stake in Open Trade
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Daniel T. Griswold
Country: United States

"This study is the first in a series that will examine the costs and benefits of the WTO to the United States and to the rest of the world." The full report is available in Adobe PDF. (4/3/00)

Setting the record straight: Free trade and the WTO
Source: Centre for Independent Studies
Author: David Robertson
Country: United States

"Robertson, Director of the Centre for the Practice of International Trade at the Melbourne Business School, examines the inconsistencies in the accusations levelled against globalisation and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by non-government organisations (NGOs)." (Adobe Acrobat) (9/11/00)

Setting the record straight: free trade, NGOs and the WTO
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: David Robertson
Country: United States

Booming international trade has brought together a coalition of entrenched interests and ill-informed activists that threatens the free flow of goods and growing prosperity. (Adobe Acrobat) (11/00)

Coming home to roost: Proliferating antidumping laws and the growing threat to U.S. exports
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Brink Lindsey and Daniel J. Ikenson
Country: United States

"For decades, the U.S. antidumping law has been abused by domestic industries seeking protection from foreign competition. Recently, many other countries have begun to follow the bad U.S. example -- and American exports are starting to pay the price." This report concludes that it is time for antidumping reform. It is available in Adobe PDF. (07/30/01)

Democratizing the World Trade Organization
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Fiona McGillivray
Country: United States
E-mail: hoover@free-market.net

The author argues that opening the WTO process to greater participation could potentially pull outcomes further from the interests of the majority and toward the interests of unelected special interests. (10/00)

Open letter: The paradox of anti-globalisation
Source: Press Release by the Belgian EU Presidency
Author: Guy Verhofstadt
Country: Belgium

Open letter by the PM of Belgium, the current President of the EU, to the anti-globalisation movement. While he welcomes expression of their opinions, he points out contradictions in their claims. They ask the right questions -- but the answer is more globalisation, with measures to make it "ethical". Proposals include more aid, a global ban on small guns and a global political body. (09/26/01)

The Wealth of Nations, book IV, chapter 3
Source: The Library of Economics and Liberty
Author: Adam Smith
Country: United States

In this excerpt from his classic 18th-century work, Smith discusses trade restrictions and the advantages of free trade.

Trade and the rise of freedom
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Country: United States

"Human beings cannot truly be free unless there is a high degree of economic freedom -- the freedom to collaborate and coordinate plans with other people from literally all around the world." (01/31/00)

Trade secrets and the 'inevitable disclosure' doctrine
Source: NLCPI
Country: United States

The National Legal Center for the Public Interest issues a monograph on how the current paradigm of "disclosure inevitability" is used to mitigate decisions on the right of companies to maintain "trade secrets" as their private property. (Adobe Acrobat Reader required) (10/31/01)

Antidumping 101
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Brink Lindsey and Dan Ikenson
Country: United States

Lindsey and Ikenson seek to penetrate the fog of complexity that shields antidumping laws from the scrutiny they deserve. They offer a detailed, step-by-step guide to how dumping is defined and measured under current rules. (11/26/02)

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