Free Trade

Free Trade encourages innovation. Over the last 15 years, free trade has helped foster a high-tech boom, created more than 25 million jobs, and increased real wages for U.S. workers.

Latest Developments

We support policies that encourage a free-market economy where entrepreneurship can flourish:

  • We applaud the passing of the Colombia, Panama and South Korean trade agreements.
  • Reauthorizing Fast Track Authority (president's authority to negotiate trade agreements, present to Congress as a simple up/down vote).
  • Encourage and enter worldwide trade negations and agreements, including legislation that will repeal the Jackson-Vanik Amendment and establish Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Russia.
  • Fighting against Buy American provisions because they hurt U.S. trade relationships.
  • Encourage foreign investors and business to do business here.
  • Encourage and enforce clear and strong intellectual property policies.

Free Trade in the News

October 24, 2012 via Real Clear Markets
Regulators Must Think Before They Regulate
February 28, 2012 via ABC News
TEDxBerkeley - Carl Bass - The New Rules of Innovation

Opinions

May 31, 2012 via CEA
Is China Still the Answer for Brand Name Suppliers?
May 23, 2012 via Forbes
Innovation and Capitalism: Obama Ad Backfires
Outside our borders: 80 percent of the world's purchasing power, 92 percent of its economic growth and 95 percent of consumers. Developing countries buy over half of all U.S. exports.