All the Trump Trade Actions: Tracked
September 21, 2018
AAEI is tracking all the trade actions that the Trump Administration has taken since 2017, from renegotiating NAFTA to tariffs on aluminum and steel to Section 301 tariffs on imports from China. More than 35 such trade actions to date have carried the United States to the brink of a trade war with China and …
E-Commerce Gains Global Trade Attention
September 11, 2018
AAEI and its partners participating in the World Customs Organization’s (WCO’s) E-Commerce Work Group (WGEC) are working on solutions to the many trade-related pain points involving e-commerce. AAEI has been a leading voice on this work group for more than two years. In August 2018, the WCO published guiding principles for crossborder e-commerce. The goal …
Evidence Piling Up Against Tariffs
September 12, 2018
AAEI is responding to the Trump Administration’s numerous trade actions in a two-fold way, by joining multi-industry letters called for an end to the tariffs and by filing specific and technical comments under its own letterhead. A recent example is a set of comments AAEI sent to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) …
2018 AAEI Annual Conference Delivers
June 19, 2018
The 97th Annual AAEI Conference and Expo delivered on its commitment to the international trade community with an event in Baltimore, Maryland in June 2018 that brought into sharp focus the colliding waves of anti-globalist trade policy and the exploding frontiers of trade technologies. Panel after panel discussed the practical impact of working under these …
AAEI Stands for Free Trade
September 12, 2018
AAEI has joined a nationwide coalition of U.S. businesses, trade organizations, and workers united against tariffs as part of the Association’s ongoing effort to promote free trade. Americans for Free Trade was launched on September 12, 2018 to demonstrate the harm of tariffs on U.S. jobs, U.S. businesses, American innovation and American families. More than 80 of the …