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March 19, 2013

Obama Is About to Change the Game on Free Trade

Daniel Altman, Foreign Policy

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Feel that whiplash? Trade has gone from zero to 60 in the White House's agenda just weeks after Barack Obama's second inauguration. Two blockbuster deals -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Japan will soon join, and a free trade agreement with the European Union -- could finally leave the World Trade Organization's ill-fated Doha Development Round in the dust. In fact, these deals offer more hope for world trade than the WTO ever did.

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TAGGED: World Trade Organization, WTO, Eurozone, Europe, Trade, Free Trade, United States, Barack Obama

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