Trade Trade

  • July 14, 2010

    Dodd-Frank Financial Regulation Conference Report is Deeply Flawed

    Using the Senate-passed financial services regulation bill as a starting point, the conference committee’s final agreement – one opposed by every House and Senate Republican conferee – adds troubling new requirements to the legislation and fails to correct harmful provisions in the Senate-passed text. In the end, the bill fails to deliver the reforms needed to prevent the next financial crisis, adds unnecessary burdens on American financial institutions, and increases costs for American consumers.
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  • June 23, 2010

    Where is the Obama Administration on the Colombia FTA?

    In case you missed, the WSJ and Washington Post had editorials yesterday on the issue of the election of the new president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, and the need to pass the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which was signed in November 2006.
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