CGS and IIGG Symposium

The United States and World Trade: Future Directions

Presented by the Council on Foreign Relations

Monday, October 16, 2017 9:15 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

9:15 to 9:45 a.m. Breakfast Reception

9:45 to 10:00 a. m. Welcoming Remarks (Ted Alden and Miles Kahler)

10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Session One: NAFTA Renegotiation: Renewal or Expiration?

This panel will assess negotiating positions as they stand at the time of the symposium and provide estimates of likely outcomes.

Michael Froman, Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Former United

States Trade Representative
Antonio Ortiz-Mena, Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former Head of
Economic Affairs, Embassy of Mexico in the United States
John M. Weekes, Senior Business Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP, Former Canadian
NAFTA Chief Negotiator; Former Canadian ambassador to the World Trade
Organization
Presider
Dolia Estevez, Senior Foreign Correspondent, Forbes

11:00 to 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Session Two: China and the United States: Governing a Contentious Bilateral Trade
and Investment Relationship
This panel will consider both the substance and the process of Sino-U.S. trade and investment relations, as well as the effect that
better or worse governance of those relations will have on the Asian region and the world economy.

David Dollar, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy, and Development and
John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
Scott Kennedy, Deputy Director, Freeman Chair in China Studies, and Director,
Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy, Center for Strategic and
International Studies
Wei Liang, Professor, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey;
Coeditor, China in Global Trading Governance
Presider
Sharon Yuan, Managing Partner, Asia Group; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Trade Investment, U.S. Department of the Treasury

12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Lunch Reception

12:45 to 1:45 p.m. Session Three: The United States, Trade Remedies, and the World Trade
Organization (WTO)
This panel will consider the case for more aggressive use of trade remedies, the implications of such a strategy for U.S. relations
with the WTO, and the prospects for conflict with a major trading partner, the European Union (EU).

Chad P. Bown, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Former
Senior Economist for International Trade and Investment, Council of Economic
Advisers; Former Lead Economist, World Bank
Kellie Meiman Hock, Managing Partner and Director, Brazil and Southern Cone
Trade Practices, McLarty Associates
Scott Paul, President, Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM)

1:45 to 2:00 p.m. Coffee Break

2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Keynote Session

Roberto Azevdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organization

At the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC

1777 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006

This symposium is on the record.