While some level of dislocation is inevitable in an era of globalization, a comprehensive vision of promoting employment calls for supporting workers through these periods of transition. Unfortunately, the current US safety net for dislocated workers has more holes than net.

The United States and Japan have one of the most important relationships in the world, based on shared values, the size of their economies, and their technological sophistication. New cooperation between the U.S. and Japan will benefit not only the two countries but also the whole Asia-Pacific region, possibly providing the building blocks for an Asia-Pacific partnership.

EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Mariann Fischer Boel, explains how the role of agriculture in multilateral trade negotiations has changed since the EU reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy.

Carnegie hosted the seventh annual seminar of former U.S. trade representatives with presentations on current and future U.S. trade policy issues by Ambassadors Carla Hills, Mickey Kantor, Clayton Yeutter, Charlene Barshefsky, Bill Eberle, and Senator William Brock. Carnegie Senior Associate Sherman Katz moderated the event.

Carnegie hosted a seminar on Russia's accession to the WTO, including a presentation by AUSTR Dorothy Dwoskin on the negotiation of the U.S.-Russia bilateral agreement.
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Discussants focus on the likelihood that fast track trade negotiating authority will be renewed before it expires next June.

Discussants explored the impact of trade liberalization on small-scale farming and discussed trade and domestic policies that could improve outcomes for poor farmers.

The recent breakdown of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations over differences between the US, the EU and key developing countries has left some concerned that the viability of multilateral trade negotiations is being called into question.