As a result, CEI experts have encouraged and supported trade-enhancing policies and treaties over the years, including “fast-track” Trade Promotion Authority, specific trade deals, and multilateral efforts such as the Doha round of the World Trade Organization. We have opposed increased tariffs, attempts to increase regulation through trade deal language, and the trend toward bilateral rather than multilateral deals. CEI continues to make the case for free trade in the face of increased bipartisan hostility to the idea.
CEI’s experts also work with like-minded colleagues abroad to oppose harmful initiatives, such as working with British colleagues to stop that country’s competition agency from blocking mergers between American firms based on speculative reasoning.
Featured Posts
Blog
At minimum, keep the de minimis import exemption
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has just issued its recommendations for China policy. One of them is to eliminate the de minimis…
Blog
Tariffs are lousy revenue generators
President-elect Donald Trump has proposed cutting income taxes and raising tariffs to replace some of the revenue. Economists of all political stripes have been…
News Release
Boeing machinists strike ends, but union should face financial reality
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers in Seattle have ended their strike, as members approved a company pay raise offer. CEI labor policy…
Search Posts
Op-Eds
Six Tsunamis
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Imagine that every year the world suffered from six or more tsunamis producing…
Study
The Environmental Source
NOTE: A new edition of The Environmental Source has been published. The new version of this essential reference book on environmental policy is available in…
News Release
Disrupting Unscientific Chemical Speculation
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
Newsletter
Cooler Heads
Politics COP-10 Opens in Buenos Aires with Attacks on US Intransigence As the tenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention…
News Release
Time to End “Mad Cow” Madness
Washington, D.C., December 1, 2004—The Competitive Enterprise Institute joins President Bush in calling for an end to the unnecessary and harmful ban on importation of…
Op-Eds
A Green Push to Keep Projects Safe for Vermin
The next time you see rats roaming around public housing units in New York City, think of Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He and a handful…
CEI Planet
CEI Planet: September 2004
Full Document Available in PDF Tech Regulation Done Right, by Braden Cox…
Study
Ratification without Representation?
Full Document Available in PDF In 2001, the Bush Administration signed the United Nations Environment…
Op-Eds
Ratification Without Representation: Making a Joke out of the Constitution
“Why don't we just give them ours?” Jay Leno asked last summer as the Bush administration was helping <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
Op-Eds
For Unions, Protecting Jobs Means Protectionism
On June 7, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Mexican trucks can enter the U.S. without a government agency review of their impact on…
Products
CEI Planet: July 2004
Full Document Available in PDF “Who’s Afraid of RFID?” by Jim Harper…
Op-Eds
Visions of “Ecodemics”
In Six modern plagues, veterinarian and journalist Mark Jerome Walters, like many modern-day greens, deems humankind the source of many of the world’s problems. He…
Op-Eds
Canada and China Versus America
Riots, vandalism, raucous protests we’re all familiar with hard-edged displays of anti-Americanism abroad these days. But this pernicious envy also takes other forms. Not all…
Op-Eds
They’re Coming for Your Shrimp
H.L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Yesterday’s puritans worried about their neighbors enjoying alcohol or gambling…
Op-Eds
Sympathy for the Mosquito?
“Save Our Mosquitoes,” isn't a plea one expects to see these days with the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus killing hundreds and making thousands…
Op-Eds
Why the Sympathy for Mosquitoes? Pesticides Get an Undeserved Rap
”Save Our Mosquitoes” isn’t a plea one expects to see these days with the mosquito-borne West Nile virus killing hundreds and making thousands of people…
News Release
Broadcast Update on Issues in the News
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
Op-Eds
This Should Go over Like a Lead Balloon
Brewing in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington D.C. is a new public health scare that may soon reach beyond the beltway…
Op-Eds
Across the Atlantic, Anti-Dumping Protectionism Cuts Both Ways
Europeans opposed to America’s hard-line “antidumping” trade policies should take heart. It is now becoming easier to explain to Americans the danger that these policies…
News Release
The Politics Behind Pesticides and the West Nile Virus
In a new study published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, author Angela Logomasini exposes how environmental activists are opposing vital efforts to combat the deadly…
Op-Eds
Down in the Dumps
When most people hear the words “illegal dumping,” they probably think of someone using somebody else's trash dumpster without permission. However, in the…
Products
Q&A With Paul Driessen
Full Document Available in PDF…
Products
Sympathy for the Mosquito? Anti-Spraying Hysteria Reaches the Absurd
Full Document Available in PDF “Save Our…
CEI Planet
April/May Issue of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “The Day After Never,”…
Newsletter
Vol. VIII, No 7
Politics Connecticut Bill Aims at Slowing State Economy The Connecticut state legislature is currently considering SB.595, which aims to reduce the…
Op-Eds
Culture Wars
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> When Americans hear the word “outsourcing,” they typically imagine the movement of <?xml:namespace prefix =…
CEI Planet
January-February Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “The European Constitution Falls Apart,”…
Op-Eds
Perils of Cultural Protectionism
Attention all European firms that export to the U.S.! Thanks to a protectionist political project run by Canada and France, you…
Op-Eds
Protecting our Exports
Auto parts, precious metals, lumber—Canadians have found many ways to export their way to success in the global economy.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
Op-Eds
Tying Down a Cultural Giant
There’s an amusing scene in Gulliver’s Travels in which the protagonist awakens from a nap and has his first encounter with the tiny…
Op-Eds
The Global Network of Snobs
Cultural creativity is big business in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. According to the most recent data from Economists Incorporated, U.S.
Op-Eds
An Apple a Day
“Who are those guys?”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> That's the question that keeps popping up…
Op-Eds
Europe’s Dangerous Over-Precaution
European Union (EU) officials are deliberating on whether to apply the “precautionary principle” to nearly all chemicals in commerce within the EU—a move that could…
Op-Eds
The International Green Agenda
Environmental groups were stunned when the cash-strapped Turner Founda-tion—which gave about $28 million to green causes in 2002—announced recently that it would temporarily suspend all…
Op-Eds
The Dog That Didn’t Bark
http://www.green-watch.com/news/news.asp?ID=167 Sherlock Holmes typically uses an innocent piece of evidence to solve a mystery. In the Adventure…
Op-Eds
Rescuing Free Trade From the Bureaucrats & Special Interests
Full article available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the aftermath of the…
Op-Eds
Eroding U.S. Sovereignty: POPs Implementation
Full article available as pdf. Article appeared originally in December 2003 edition of the Monthly Planet. In…
Products
October Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “On…
Study
Federal Pesticide Law Needs an Overhaul: Anti-Competitive Effects Hit Consumers, A Case Study
Full Document Available in PDF Most Americans believe that the federal regulatory process is simply designed to protect them from fraud and…
Op-Eds
Science Rejects Anti-Pesticide Claims
Public health officials across the country are considering widespread spraying of pesticides to control the mosquito-borne <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West…
Op-Eds
CEI Does Cancún
From September 10 through September 14, the World Trade Organization will hold its fifth Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be…
News Release
Anti-Globalization Movement in Retreat in Cancún
The Anti-Globalization Movement is in retreat at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Ministerial meeting; and advocates of open trade now have an opportunity to make…
Op-Eds
‘I’m Mo Green!’
CANCUN, Mexico — “I’m Mo Green!” bellowed the casino owner, suggesting that his uninvited but insistent suitor Michael Corleone appreciate their relative stations in the…
News Release
NGO Media Briefing featuring Fred Smith and Myron Ebell
NGO Media Briefing<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Environmental and Fair Trade Linkages: Threats…
News Release
World Focus on Trade Debate in Cancún
The Fifth World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico will begin this week, with tens of thousands of official delegates, non-profit representatives, and activists…
Op-Eds
EU Over-REACH
The latest mutation of the Precautionary Principle–which would heavily regulate, if not prohibit, any product, technology or activity that is in any way incomplete–is…
Op-Eds
Europe’s REACH Exceeds Its Scientific Grasp
European regulatory officials have raised hostility to technological innovation to an art form. Their current medium of choice is the Precautionary Principle, which holds…
Op-Eds
Stockholm Syndrome
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a United Nations Environment Programme Convention, which bans or regulates industrial chemicals and pesticides. The…
Op-Eds
Europe ‘Reaches’ for Disaster
European regulatory officials have raised hostility to technological innovation to an art form. Their current medium of choice is the Precautionary Principle, which…
Products
August Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: …
Op-Eds
Activists More to Fear than Pesticides
As public health officials consider spraying pesticides to control the mosquito-borne <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West Nile virus, anti-pesticide activists…
Op-Eds
West Nile Virus: A Public Health Crisis?
Full article available in pdf format Public health officials can only hope that this summer doesn't see a repeat of last year's…
Op-Eds
Pollsters: A New Danger in Baghdad
<?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml” /><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /><?xml:namespace prefix = w ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word” />We have, for…
News Release
Importing Drugs from Foreign Countries
For more information, contacts the Frontiers of Freedom Institute: 703.266-0110 PRESS CONFERENCE<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
News Release
Pharmaceutical Re-Imports Threaten Medical Innovation
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., July 18, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is opposing proposals to allow the re-importation of drugs from foreign…
News Release
New! CEI’s Politically Correct Periodic Table Mousepad
Preview of the mousepad available in pdf format. Learn the “new” chemistry from this mousepad guide to…
News Release
On 114th Anniversary of Turning Point in Chemistry, CEI Unveils Politically Correct Periodic Table
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 Sam Kazman, 202.331.2265 …
Op-Eds
Analysis: Two worlds
We live in a divided world. The division, however, is not between north and south, East and West or First World and Third World…
Op-Eds
OMB OTL? What good is a sleeping watchdog?
What would you do if federal lawmakers proposed increasing annual taxes by $8,000 per household? You, and many other taxpayers, would likely retaliate in…
Products
April/May edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Article in this edition:…
Op-Eds
West Nile Virus: Squashing those Myths Regarding Pesticide Spraying
With the mosquito-transmitted <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West Nile virus in the news again, so too are many myths about…
News Release
Will West Nile Virus Spoil Another Summer?
Contact for Interviews:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 <?xml:namespace prefix =…
Op-Eds
Consensus Cons
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> It is a regrettable fact that most of the public is ignorant about science—not…
Study
Rethinking the Regulation of Bioengineered Crops
Full Document Available in PDF U.S. State Department conference, Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Countries, May 21,…
Op-Eds
Supporting a Risky Water Policy
As <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. environmentalists push policies to phase out use of chlorine gas at water-treatment plants, humanitarians…
Op-Eds
Utopian Policymaking: The Inherent Dangers of “Inherently Safer Technology”
What would you say if the federal government proposed phasing out large commercial airplanes? After all, they could argue that using only small planes with…
News Release
“State of the Air” Report Deserves Failing Grade
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Contact for Interviews: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252…
News Release
Health Risk Experts To Testify At Consumer Products Safety Commission Hearing On Pressure-Treated Wood
Washington, D.C., March 13, 2003—In an effort to prevent a ban on pressure-treated wood used in playground equipment, experts with the Competitive…
News Release
Coalition Calls On CPSC To Extend Comment On Pressure Treated Wood
Washington, D.C., February 25, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute and seven other groups are requesting that the Consumer Products Safety Commission delay its…
News Release
Boost Your Environmental IQ Online
Washington, D.C., February 7, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is launching a new online feature, the "e-class" quiz, this week. The quiz, developed by CEI’s…
News Release
Bush Administration Close To Failing On Environmental Policy
Washington, D.C., January 22, 2003—On issues ranging from arsenic in drinking water to chemical plant security, a Competitive Enterprise Institute policy analyst…
News Release
Success Of New Book Shows: Many Americans Don’t Believe Gloom And Doom Theories
Washington, D.C., January 14, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is celebrating the success of its latest book on environmental issues,…
Products
January Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Grim Green…
News Release
Environmental, Other Regulations Under Scrutiny
Washington, D.C., December 20, 2002—From energy conservation standards for washing machines to labels on genetically modified food, many federal regulations are coming…
Products
November/December 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “FDA’s Pediatric Rule…
Op-Eds
The Nice Treaty: Not So Nice For The U.S.
Yes means yes and no means maybe – at least that’ so among Europe’s elite. Which is ironic, because the Continental bien pensants would shudder…
Op-Eds
The U.S. Should Unsign Kyoto
Perhaps U.S. President George W. Bush believes it when he says the United States is free of the Kyoto climate change treaty. But if he…
Op-Eds
West Nile Wakeup Bites
It became common in Washington’s parks during the summer to see mothers rubbing their children’s arms, faces, and legs with wipes pulled from…
Products
October 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The True Scourge:…
Op-Eds
To Beat West Nile, Kill The Carrier
It is common in Washington’s parks these days to see mothers rubbing their children’s arms, faces and legs with wipes pulled from brightly…
Op-Eds
Don’t Go There: Giving The EPA The Chance To Jeopardize Homeland Security
Senator Jon Corzine (D, N.J.) says he may offer his “Chemical Security Act” (S. 1602) this week as an amendment to the homeland-security bill.
Products
August/September 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Nothing But Hot…
Op-Eds
Diminishing Sovereignty
Maybe it sounds like a good idea: a global regulatory body for a global economy. That's the latest suggestion floating around the Organization for Economic…
Op-Eds
False Representation
In her book Whose Trade Organization, Lori Wallach argues that corporate interests have for too long dominated the World Trade Organization and that…
Comment
Are Risk Assessment And The Precautionary Principle Equivalent?
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following paper was prepared for the June 20-21, 2002 International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology workshop on the Precautionary Principle,…
Op-Eds
Deploy DDT To Fight Malaria
Thirty years ago this month, the government launched an assault on a basic liberty – the liberty to protect one’s own health using a pesticide.
Op-Eds
Foreign Entanglements: Dumping The Rome Treaty Raises Further Questions
The Bush administration has formally informed the United Nations of U.S. withdrawal from the Treaty of Rome. That agreement, signed by a departing President…
Op-Eds
Is PBS Making You Sick?
The Los Angeles Times recently reported that the taxpayer-subsidized PBS television is suffering from serious ratings problems. It's struggling to compete with the commercial cable…
Op-Eds
George “Smoot Hawley” Bush
The Bush administration’s decision to abandon its free trade position to protect the domestic steel industry is distressful. Even Clinton didn’t give in…
Study
Will The United States Let The European Union Regulate Our Chemicals Industry Through The OECD?
View Full Document as PDF The European Union uses the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as a way of gaining…
News Release
Is Free Trade In Jeopardy?
Washington, D.C., April 9, 2002 — This Thursday scholars from the Competitive Enterprise Institute and American Enterprise Institute will examine the implications of…
News Release
Marlo Lewis Joins CEI As Senior Fellow
Washington, D.C., April 1, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce that Marlo Lewis has rejoined its team of policy analysts as…
News Release
Privacy Emerges As Key Trade Issue
Washington, D.C., March 22, 2002 — A new analysis of financial privacy and its role in trade negotiations by Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior…
Study
Privacy as a Trade Issue: Guidelines for U.S. Trade Negotiators
Full Document Available in PDF Privacy, known in…
News Release
Free Market Advocates Confront Eco-Terrorism
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />Washington, D.C., March 7, 2002 — In a Capitol Hill conference today, several experts in security,…
Op-Eds
WHO Cares? World Health Organization Cares More About Its Own Life Than The Lives Of The Poor
Paul Dietrich was visiting Mozambique’s capital city, Maputo, during its civil war in 1984, when an educational billboard taught him a lesson he never…
Op-Eds
Outside View: The choice: Kyoto or WTO?
Mid-November brought us reports from two international negotiations, whose sole common thread appeared to be each took place amid tight security in Muslim countries. These…
Op-Eds
A “Hole” Lot of Alarmism Should Be a Lesson in Marrakech
Scary autumn tales about the Antarctic ozone “hole” have become an annual media ritual that treats the phenomenon of ozone thinning as an ominous threat…
News Release
Terrorists Shouldn’t Have a “Right to Know”
Washington, D.C., October 10, 2001—As Congress holds hearings on the security of our nation’s infrastructure, the Competitive Enterprise Institute warns that certain federal…
Op-Eds
Innocent No More: America Can No Longer Be Naive About Security
Logomasini Op-Ed in The Washington Times Logomasini Op-Ed in The Washington Times Events in recent days serve as…
