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Sherman E. Katz is a senior associate in the Trade, Equity and Development project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Formerly, Katz was the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at The Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington D.C from February 2000 to February 2006. During 30 years of practicing international trade law, he represented U.S. and foreign corporations, governments, and multilateral institutions in trade policy issues, including national trade regulation and litigation, World Trade Organization negotiations, agreements and dispute settlement.
A Member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars, Sherman graduated from Amherst College, Columbia University School of Law and the Columbia School of International Affairs. He attended Stockholm University for his junior college year and received a diploma in EU law from the University of Oxford in 1992.
He is a recipient of Sweden's Royal Order of the North Star, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and an adjunct professor of International Trade at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Selected Publications:
U.S. Should Lead China [on Trade] by Example (IHT/Asahi Shimbun, Nov. 8. 2005); Trade Policy Challenges in 2005 (June 2005); Challenges and Opportunities in International Trade: A Report on the CSIS-The Economist 2002-2003 Trade Seminar Series (2003)
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.