Today’s discussion is with Andrea Durkin. Andrea is the Editor-in-Chief of TradeVistas and Founder of Sparkplug, LLC.

TradeVistas is a great online resource providing very easily digestible information on the latest trade issues. We include a lot of their material on the NZUS Council website.

Andrea’s background includes having previously served as a U.S. Government trade negotiator. She has proudly taught international trade policy and negotiations for the last fifteen years as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service program.

Our discussion with Andrea focuses on trade:

• Whether trade policy is a feature of this year’s presidential election?
• Are there likely to be substantive differences in the trade policy pathways of a Trump 2 or Biden 1 administration?
• American public opinion towards the WTO and global leadership on the trade front.
• The voting patterns of congress and whether we’re ever likely to see again the kind of coalition that led to the passage of the USMCA.
• The race for the role of Director General of the WTO and her recent interaction with the leading candidates for the role and Andrea’s opinion on what kind of leadership is needed at the WTO.

Links mentioned during the recording:

• https://tradevistas.org/trade-and-politics-2020/

Host biography:Jordan Small: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordancsmall/
jsmall@nzuscouncil.org

Andrea Durkin: https://tradevistas.org/author/adurkin/

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