Videos:
Morning Sessions:
09:00 – 09:30 Welcoming and Introductory Remarks Aluisio de Lima-Campos, Chairman, ABCI Institute H. E. Sérgio Amaral, Ambassador of Brazil
09:30 – 10:45 PANEL I: Trade Outlook: The View from Governments Is the ongoing crisis a government-made one? If so, what governments should do to fix it? Companies involved in foreign trade suffer most as a result of a lack of predictability in a fast changing world and a clear mismatch between WTO rules and actions. What can possibly be done to take us away from this systemic crisis and towards prosperity? Moderator: Padideh Ala’i, Professor of Law, WCL Speakers: Fernando Pimentel, Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of Brazil Guillermo Malpica Soto, Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of Mexico David Wilkens, Counselor, Economic Affairs, Embassy of Germany Matias Ignacio Pinto Pimentel, Trade Commissioner, Embassy of Chile *Shinge Watanabi, Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of Japan
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 PANEL II: Section 232 and repercussions Well-founded or not, the unexpected application of Section 232 measures to countries and entire sectors seems to aim at re-organizing international trade according to national aspirations. How a counter wave will affect international trade? How far down the road will the process go and what will come out at the other side of the tunnel? Is there a different and more creative path? Moderator: John Magnus, President, TradeWins LLC Speakers: Terence Stewart, Managing Partner, Law Offices of Stewart and Stewart Matthew Nicely, Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Pablo Bentes, Managing Director, Trade & Investment, Steptoe & Johnson
12:30 – 01:45 Luncheon: A talk on Trade with Renata Vasconcellos, Kellie Meiman and Nicole Collinson
Afternoon Sessions:
http://media.wcl.american.edu/Mediasite/Play/bf38eb4227654d10b73964c5f3d406e61d
02:00 – 03:15 PANEL III: USMCA Outlook The USMCA agreement seems to have been designed to set the tone and serve as a template for all future US trade agreements. Provisions on currency manipulation and to prevent Canada and Mexico, and potentially other countries, to ink free trade arrangements with China are all new to trade agreements. What legal and economic impacts can be expected? Moderator: Jason Marczak, Director, Atlantic Council Speakers: Simon Lester, Associate Director, CATO Institute Jeffrey Schott, Peterson Institute Lynn Fischer Fox, Counsel, Arnold & Porter, Former DOC DAS. 0
3:15 – 03:30 Coffee Break
03:30 – 04:45 PANEL IV: WTO Reform As trade actions by member countries are being taken without regard to WTO rules; as the DSM is on the brink of failure; as multilateral negotiations don’t seem to go anywhere; as new issues such as e-commerce and SOEs are not adequately covered by existing rules; it seems clear that the WTO needs to update itself to the times. What needs to change and how to go about doing it? Moderator: Aluisio de Lima Campos, Chairman, ABCI Institute Speakers: Claude Barfield, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Chad Bown, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute Grant Aldonas, Managing Director, Split Rock International *Representative of USTR
Book Launch: Aluísio de Lima Campos and Juan Antonio Gaviria presented their new book, International Trade Policy, January 18, 2018
XIV Symposium on International Trade: Rule-Based World Trade System under Systematic Crisis