{"id":3334,"date":"2009-12-17T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T17:53:40","slug":"nafta-launc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2009\/12\/17\/nafta-launc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Task Force Report on NAFTA goes to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carnegie Endowment's Eduardo Zepeda, followed by Pardee Task force Members Kevin P. Gallagher (BU), Robert Stumberg (Georgetown), and Timothy A. Wise (GDAE-Tufts)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher<\/a> traveled to Washington last\u00a0 week to launch the new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled “The Future of North American Trade Policy: Lessons from NAFTA<\/a><\/em>.\u201d Gallagher, with task force members Robert Stumberg<\/a> from Georgetown University Law School and Timothy Wise from Tufts Unversity’s Global Development Institute<\/a>, gave presentations based on the report at a prominent DC think tank, in the House of Representatives, in the US Senate, and to the new administration.<\/p>\n

On December 9, from\u00a0 9:00-10:30 am, Gallagher, Wise and Stumberg\u00a0 presented the findings from the report at the <\/a>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/a> (hear audio here<\/a>).\u00a0The event was attended by over 70 members of think tanks, embassies, government agencies, the private sector, and civil society. Also on December 9, task force members held a briefing with senior officials at the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.<\/p>\n

On December 10, from 2:30-4:00 pm, Pardee’s Gallagher took part in a\u00a0 Senate briefing titled \u201cU.S. Investment Treaties and the Public Interest: U.S.-China Negotiations, the Administration\u2019s Review of the Bilateral Investment Treaty Program, and the Implications for Labor, Environment, Democracy and Development.\u201d At the event, sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown<\/a> (D-OH) Gallagher drew from recommendations in the Pardee Task Force report to urge Congress to enact future investment treaties that learn the lessons of the NAFTA model.<\/p>\n

On December 11, from Noon-2:00 pm, Pardee’s Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise held a briefing on the Task Force report at the U.S. House of Representatives sponsored by Reps. Mike Michaud and Louise Slaughter. Finally, at 4:30 pm on December 11 Gallagher and Wise held private briefings for key Senate staff on the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher traveled to Washington last\u00a0 week to launch the new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled “The Future of North American Trade Policy: Lessons from NAFTA.\u201d Gallagher, with task force members Robert Stumberg from Georgetown University Law School and Timothy Wise from Tufts Unversity’s Global Development Institute, gave presentations based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24840,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/24840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}