International Trade and
Economic Negotiation
IRP/PPA 715-2
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University
Fall Term, Academic Year 2009/2010
Dr. Bart S. Fisher
Tel: 202.659.2979
Fax: 202.558.5101
700 12th Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
E-Mail:
Bart_fisher2002@yahoo.com
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International Trade and
Economic Negotiation Course Outline
The purpose of the
course is to explore the challenges confronting international trade
policy and current negotiations designed to address these challenges.
The methodology will be inter-disciplinary, including political,
economic, and legal analysis.
The basic textbook will be Bart S. Fisher and Michael P. Malloy,
International Trade and Investment. The textbook will be provided
as part of the Course Materials for the students in this class. There
will be a materials charge of $40 per student. All of the documents
required for the course will be handed out as Course Materials to the
students in the class, or available online. There will be no other
required purchases of books or other materials by students in the
class.
Additional readings for the course are described below.
The student agency report and some possible paper topics are also
suggested below.
This is a one-semester course, with one grade given at the end of the
semester. The grade will consist of two elements, each equally
weighted.
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Class Participation.
Attendance, punctuality, and the degree of informed class
participation are included. Please give notice if you will be unable
to attend a particular class session.
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Work Products. This part of the grade will include preparation of an agency report, a
paper for the course, or other “role playing” assignments provided to
students in the class. There will be no final examination at the end
of the course.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
ASSIGNMENT
This assignment is designed to provide a practical roadmap to the
agencies that regulate international trade in goods, services and
capital.
Each report should describe the regulatory functions and roles played
by the assigned department, agency, or institution. This description
should fall into two parts—the assigned role designated by statute, or
charter, and the powers actually exercised by the office/agency in
practice. Emphasis should be given to changes in role or policy in
recent years, or over time.
Each person shall deliver an oral report to the class of no longer
than 20 minutes on the agency assigned. In addition, an outline of the
report (no longer than 2 pages) should be prepared for distribution to
the class. Both time and page length requirements will be strictly
enforced, to encourage students to present their ideas in a succinct
manner.
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National Security
Council
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Office of the United
States Trade Representative
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Department of
Agriculture
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Department of Commerce
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Department of State
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Department of Homeland
Security
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International Trade
Commission
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Department of the
Treasury
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Overseas Private
Investment Corporation
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Export Import Bank of
the United States
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International Finance
Corporation
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International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
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Inter-American
Development Bank
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International Monetary
Fund
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World Trade
Organization (WTO)
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Court of International
Trade
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European Union (EU)
Commission
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North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
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World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO)
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Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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House Ways and Means
Committee
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Senate Finance
Committee
international
trade law, trade law and american trade policy
POSSIBLE PAPER TOPICS
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Alleged currency
manipulation by the People’s Republic of China (PRC); are new
international trade rules needed to regulate currency levels?
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Should the United
States permit purchases of its companies such as Unocal and Maytag
by PRC entities: activities of CIFIUS and regulation of foreign
investment in the United States
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The role of electronic
commerce in international trade
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The Airbus dispute
with the European Union: the issue of subsidies in international
trade
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The relationship
between international trade and peaceful relationships
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The role of states
(e.g., California or Virginia) in promoting international trade,
investment, and local economic development
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Countering OPEC: what
is to be done?
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Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
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Basel Convention on
Trans-Border Transportation of Hazardous Wastes
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The relationship
between the U.S. budget deficit and the U.S. trade deficit
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How should the United
States tax multinational enterprises?
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Prospects for CAFTA
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Is NAFTA working?
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The technology factor
in international commerce: is the United States losing its
scientific and technological edge in areas such as biotechnology and
nanotechnology?
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Implications of the
end of textile quotas under the MFA
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Outsourcing:
implications for U.S. employment
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What should be the
U.S. policy on immigration?
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The case of Yahoo in
China: privacy concerns, human rights, and the possible
extraterritorial application and effect of U.S. laws
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The global quest for
energy supplies: the case of China and Japan contesting the East
China Sea for exploration purposes
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Should China be
considered as a market economy for purposes of the Antidumping Law
of the United States?
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Accession of Russia to
the World Trade Organization
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Free trade in the
Middle East
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Role of Wal Mart in
international trade
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U.S. policy towards
international commodity agreements
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WTO Dispute
Resolution: is it working? For whom?
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Transnational
Corporate Figures: The Case of Rupert Murdoch
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Surfing the Internet:
The Development of International Electronic Commerce and its
International Regulatory Aspects
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Relationship between use of grains as food and/or
fuel.
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Status of the Doha Round of multilateral trade
negotiations
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Status of negotiations on possible Free Trade
Agreements with Panama, Colombia, and/or Korea
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Economic stimulus policy in China and its impact on
international trade in goods, services, and capital
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The economic meltdown in Iceland
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The impact of the global recession on international
trade
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Efficacy of economic sanctions on Iran, North Korea,
Cuba
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
Asterisk (*) denotes
required reading for the course. Other materials are recommended
readings but not required reading for the course.
First Class
Introduction: The
Context of International Trade Policy
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*Materials on
Globalization provided to the class
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Taleb, Nassim
Nicholas, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,
Random House, 2007.
*Fisher and Malloy,
Chapter I
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*Bergsten, C. Fred,
The United States and the World Economy, Chapter 1.
Institute for International Economics, 2005.
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Pearson, Charles, United States Trade Policy: A Work in Progress, Chapter 1., “An
Overview”
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Prestowitz, Clyde,
Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and
Power to the the East, Basic Books, 2005
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Yergin, Daniel,
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy,
Touchstone, 1998.
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Bhagwati, Jagdish,
In Defense of Globalization, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Second Class
The Institutional
Framework for American Trade Policy
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*Fisher and Malloy,
Chapter III, “Regulation of International Trade: The Institutions”
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Destler, I.M,,
American Trade Politics, 4th Edition, Institute for
International Economics, 2005, Chapters 1 through 5.
Third Class
The Competitiveness
Challenge: Trade in Fairly Priced Goods Herein of the cases of
automobiles and textiles
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*Materials on Obama
Administration Trade Policy provided to the class
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*Fisher and Malloy,
Chapter IV, “Relief from Fairly Priced Foreign Competition”
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*Gilboy, George,
“The Myth Behind China’s Miracle,” Foreign Affairs, July/August
2004
Pearson, Charles, Chapter 3, “Flirting with Managed Trade”
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*Lardy, Nicholas,
Integrating China into the Global Economy, Brookings, 2002
(1604 .L275 2002)
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Lardy, Nicholas, China’s Unfinished Economic Revolution, Brookings, 1998.
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Lardy, Nicholas,
“China: The Great New Economic Challenge?” Chapter 4 in Bergsten,
C. Fred, The United States and the World Economy.
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Navarro, Peter, The
Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Will Be
Won, Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2006.
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*Navarro, Peter,
China Price Project -
click here.
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Fishman, Ted C.,
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower
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*Hufbauer, Gary C.,
Wong, Y., and Sheth, K., U.S.-China Trade Disputes: Rising
Tide, Rising Stakes, Institute for International Economics,
2006.
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Challenges
America and the World, Scribner, 2005.
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Groombridge, Mark
A., and Barfield, Claude E., Tiger by the Tail: China and the
World Trade Organization, The AEI Press, 1999.
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*Section 201 of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended, Bhala, pp. 1304-1325.
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Rogers, Jim, A
Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market.
Random House, 2007.
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Zeng, Ming and
Williamson, Peter J., Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost
Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition. Harvard Business
School, 2007.
Fourth Class
The Competitiveness
Challenge: Trade in Services and the Debate Over Outsourcing and
Offshoring
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Nath, Kamal, India’s Century, McGraw Hill, 2008.
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*Friedman, Thomas
L., The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First
Century, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
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*Mann, Catherine L.,
“Offshore Outsourcing and the Globalization of US Services: Why
Now, How Important, and What Policy Implications,” Chapter 9 in
Bergsten, C. Fred, The United States and the World Economy.
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Raj, Vinay. Think
India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means
for Every American. Dutton, 2007.
Fifth Class
The Challenge of
Competing Against Unfairly Priced Goods
Herein of the case of steel
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*Fisher and Malloy,
Chapter V, Antidumping Duties
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Destler, Chapter 6,
“Changing the Rules: The Rise of Administrative Trade Remedies”
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*Agreement on
Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade 1994 (“Antidumping” Agreement, Bhala, pp. 392-419.
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Irwin, Douglas,
Free Trade Under Fire, Princeton University Presss, 2005.
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B. Bhattarcharyya,
The Indian Shrimp Industry Organizes to Fight the Threat of
Anti-Dumping Duties, -
click here.
Sixth Class
The Challenge of
Subsidies in International Trade
Herein of the cases of agriculture (U.S. and Europe) and currency
manipulation (China)
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*Fisher and Malloy,
Chapter VI, Subsidies and Countervailing Duties
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Daniel Griswold,
Grain Drain, The Hidden Cost of U.S. Rice Subsidies, Cato
Institute, November 16, 2006 -
click here.
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WTO Decision on
United States Subsidies on Upland Cotton, Report of the Appellate
Body, WT DS 267/AB/R, March 3, 2005
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Robert Samuelson,
"The Airbus Showdown," December 8, 2004 - click here.
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Irwin, Douglas A.,
and Nina Pavcnik (2004). "Airbus versus Boeing Revisited:
International Competition in the Aircraft Market." Journal of
International Economics 64 (2): 223-245. -
click here.
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*Agreement on
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (“SCM Agreement”), Bhala,
pp. 473-521.
Seventh Class
The Energy
Challenge
OPEC: What Response
Alternative Fuels: what are the prospects
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*Friedman, Thomas
L., Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Why We Need a Green Revolution -
and How It Can Renew America. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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*Materials on Cap
and Trade provided to the class
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*Philip K. Verleger,
Jr., “Energy: A Gathering Storm?” Chapter 7 in Bergsten, Fred C., The United States and the World Economy
Eighth Class
The Development
Challenge: International Trade and the War on Terror
Relationship between trade and international violence
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*Fisher and Malloy,
Chapter X, Trade and Developing Nations
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*Pearson, Charles,
United States Trade Policy: A Work in Progrress, Chapter 6, “The
Allure of Preferential Trade”
Ninth Class
The Challenge of
Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Will the Doha Round Succeed?
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Malawer, Stuart, WTO Law, Litigation & Policy - Sourcebook of Internet Documents. Wm. S. Hein & Co.,, 2007.
Tenth Class
The Challenge of
Regional Economic Integration
Eleventh Class
The Challenge to
American Intellectual Property in the World Marketplace
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*Fisher and Malloy,
Chapter XIII, The Territorial Structure of Intellectual Property
Rights
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*Fisher and Malloy,
Chapter XIV, The International Licensing of Technology and
Associated Antitrust Issues
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*Agreeement on Trade
Related Intellectual Property, WTO, 1994, Bhala, pp. 567-602
Twelfth Class
Trade Sanctions and
Export Controls
Thirteenth Class
The International
Financial Architecture
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*Morris Goldstein,
“The International Financial Architecture,” Chapter 12 in
Bergsten, C. Fred, The United States and the World Economy
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*Stiglitz, Joseph,
Globalization and Its Discontents, 2002.
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Bergsten, C. Fred
and Williamson, John, eds., Dollar Overvaluation and the World
Economy, Institute for International Economics, 2003.
Class Materials
Part 1 - Regulation of International Trade
Part 2 - Technology in International
Commerce
Part 3 -
Regulating International Investment
Supplementary Online
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