May 18, 2010
 
On March 14, U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed World Trade Week--a week of trade-related events across the country for U.S. businesses and government--to promote his goal of doubling exports in five years. But a spreading sovereign debt crisis in Europe, persistent high U.S. unemployment, and protectionist policies abroad could make reaching that ambitious goal even more challenging.

Posted on May 17, 2010

President Obama has claimed to favor free trade. But as in so many cases, what he says doesn’t mean there will be any action.   The free-trade pacts with Columbia, Panama and South Korea have been “pending” for the last sixteen months.  Big Labor does not like free trade.  This one big interest group has driven much of Obama’s action or inaction on almost every administration program or policy.

Posted by dailypolitical on May 15th, 2010

China has been having trouble with respect to intellectual property issues as they recently lost a few patents. They created a new policy to curtail this issue that is apparently holding a threat to harm U.S. business men and investors.