Subsidy issues:

• Cultivating Poverty: The Impact of U.S. Cotton Subsidies on Africa Paper by Oxfam noting that 25,000 U.S. cotton farmers recieve about $4 billion in subsidies -- more in subsidies than the entire GDP of Burkina Faso (population 2 million).
• Foreign Sales Corportations and Extraterritorial Income Act U.S. tax breaks to exporters held in violation of WTO agreements, retaliatory duties loom.
• World Trade Organization on FSC

• Byrd Amendment
  • WTO dispute on the Byrd Amendment
  • EU, Canada Warn of Tariffs over US Antidumping Law by Paul Blustein for the Washington Post, 1 April 2005.
  • Senators Vote to Kill Trade Law by Paul Blustein for the Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2005

Antidumping and Countervailing Duties:

• U.S. International Trade Commission See especially
  • Trade Remedy Investigations
  • Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Handbook
  • Historical Case Statistics

• US Antidumping Database by Bruce Blonigen, with excellent bibliography.

• The Economic and Strategic Motives for Antidumping Filings by Thomas J. Prusa and Susan Skeath.
  NBER Working Paper 8424 (Aug. 2001)

• Quantifying Causes of Injury to U.S. Industries Competing with Unfairly Traded Imports, 1989 to 1994
  by Kenneth H. Kelly and Morris E. Morkre.
  Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, Dec. 2002.

Trade Negogiations

• The Doha Round After Hong Kong by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott. Policy Brief from the Institute for International Economics, Feb. 2006.

Jobs and Trade

• Tradeable Services: Understanding the Scope and Impact of Services Outsourcing by J. Bradford Jensen and Lori G. Kletzer
• Importers, Exporters and Multinationals by Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen and Peter K. Schott
• Job Loss from Imports: Measuring the Costs by Lori Kletzer.
• The Decline of U.S. Labor Unions and the Role of Trade by Robert E. Baldwin

Regional Trading Arrangements