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.
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Inflation increased 0.3 percent in September, higher prices still sticking around: CEI analysis
September saw an inflation increase of 0.3 percent across all sectors, in line with economists’ predictions. CEI senior economist Ryan Young says today’s…
The Washington Examiner
Soybean farmers twisting in the wind during US-China talks
The Washington Examiner cited CEI’s expert on trade Accordingly, the timeline for the U.S. and China to come to an agreement over soybeans is…
National Review
Time to Spring Trump’s Tariff Trap
H.L. Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore, grounded American democracy in the notion that the “common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and…
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Congress Rushes to Judgment on Arsenic in Drinking Water
Washington, DC, July 27, 2001-Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted on an amendment to the appropriations bill to force the Environmental Protection…
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Clinton’s Legacy: Senate Dems Second-guess Bush for Second-guessing Clinton
Lieberman Op-Ed in National Review Online<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Senate Democrats are beginning to flex their majority muscles, and…
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Houston, Beware Bite of Mosquito Control Ruling
Copyright 2001 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company Zambone Op-Ed in The Houston Chronicle In the aftermath of Tropical Storm…
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Sustainable Development? How About Sustainable Growth?
The economic news out of Europe is bad — again. The euro is trending lower. German business confidence is down. Once-optimistic growth forecasts are being…
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CEI Comments to NRC on Arsenic
Competitive Enterprise Institute Competitive Enterprise Institute Comments to the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology National Research…
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Report Shows a Stricter Arsenic Standard Could Harm Public Health
Washington, DC, May 21, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Director of Risk and Environmental Policy and author of a new…
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Arsenic and Old Politics
View Full Document as PDF President George W. Bush has been taking a lot of heat for his decision to review the…
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Curbing Nature’s Destruction: Man-Made Chemicals Should Be Embraced Rather Than Vilified
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her, modern society embraces the idea that all things “not natural”…
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Bush Administration’s First 100 Days: A Report Card on Environmental Policy
Washington, DC, April 26, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released grades for President Bush’s first 100 days of environmental policy. Many of…
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CEI Commends Bush for Reviewing Drinking Water Rule
Washington, DC, April 23, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute praised the Bush administration for its recent announcement that it will postpone the arsenic…
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Media Advisory: Proponents of “Smart” Environmentalism Available for Earth Day
Washington, DC, April 17, 2001— As people around the world prepare to celebrate the 31st Earth Day, this Sunday, April 22nd, concerned individuals…
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Free Trade, Anyone? (Or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Business Forum)
From the April 2001 CEI UpDate In Calvin Coolidge’s time, the business of America was business. In our time, the…
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Arsenic and Old Lies
From the April 2001 issue of CEI UpDate From the April 2001 issue of CEI UpDate …
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Public Interest Groups Demand Real Free Trade in the Americas
Punta del Este, Uruguay, April 5, 2001— In a declaration signed today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute joined representatives…
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Public Interest Group To Monitor FTAA Meeting in Buenos Aires
Washington, DC, March 30, 2001—When the countries involved in the Free Trade Area of the Americas process meet the first week of April,…
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Environmental Risk Expert Responds to PBS Documentary on Chemicals
Washington, DC, March 27, 2001—The director of risk and environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute is criticizing PBS for its…
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When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story
A recent New York Times article unveiled an interesting archaeological discovery: the earliest genetic evidence of malaria infection. According to the February 20…
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When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story
(This On Point is adapted from the paper, “When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story,” published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 2001, and…
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Midnight Madness — Washington Style: Lieberman SD Union Tribune Op-Ed
The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Press of Atlantic City They’re called midnight regulations — the flood of federal regulatory activity occurring in the closing…
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Lifesaving Chemical Escapes United Nations Ban
Washington, DC, December 13, 2000 – An international coalition of public health and advocacy groups applauded United Nations’ recent vote against erecting a…
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How Good Intentions Kill: Roger Bate Op-Ed in the Financial Times
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Of Monkeys and Millipedes
“I would much rather be descended from an ape, sir, than a bishop From the December issue of CEI UpDate…
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Midnight in the Garden of Regulatory Evil
From the December issue of CEI UpDate They’re called midnight regulations–the flood of federal regulatory activity occurring in the closing…
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Dana Joel Gattuso Brownfields Op-Ed in Washington Times
If egotism is “the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see,” Vice President Al Gore is a master. He is…
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Pesticides and You, Puhfect Together? The Garden State’s Hands-Off Policy in Dealing with Deadly Mosquitos
In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues surrounding the America Online/Time Warner merger From the August/September…
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Internet, EPA and Terrorism? Logomasini Op-Ed in Washington Times
You know things are seriously wrong when taxpayers underwrite the costs of collecting and disseminating information that will Published in the Washington…
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Blood Supply Besieged: Logomasini Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times Published in the Washington Times August 10, 2000 In a recent letter to the…
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On Importance of Vector Control: Zambone Letter to the Editor on the West Nile Virus
Published in The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Published in The Record (Bergen County, NJ) August 10, 2000 …
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A Plague of Regulators
A new regulatory plague is descending upon the land. While we as a nation have become more accomplished at fighting the plagues of…
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CEI Expert Testifies on Trade and International Environment
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, thank you for the invitation to testify here today on the important topic of the connections between international trade and…
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EPA Limits Consumer Options in Control of Pests
Washington, DC, June 8, 2000 – “Today, EPA has begun its effort to regulate away the public’s ability to protect itself from disease-carrying…
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NEW CEI BOOK: Free Market Environmental Reader Now Available
Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Jonathan H. Adler, Editor Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Click here to order Ecology, Liberty…
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Ecology, Liberty & Property
Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Are free markets and environmental protection compatible? Is…
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Introduction to ‘Ecology, Liberty, and Property’
The book "Ecology, Liberty, and Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader," edited by Jonathan H. Adler, was published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2000.
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Free Trade Is Green Trade
Environmentalist objections to trade and proposals for the “greening” of trade are a fundamental assault on free trade principles. They also threaten environmental quality. Free…
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EPA Rule Places Americans at Risk
June 1, 2000 – “Americans may face increased risks of contracting potentially deadly and debilitating diseases under a recently proposed rule,” said Jennifer…
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Proposed EPA Rule Would Assist Terrorists
Washington, DC, June 1, 2000 – Activist groups will likely post information on the Internet that would help terrorists select targets and maximize…
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The Risks of Risk Regulation
Portions of the following are adapted from “Deadly Fallout of Too Many Rules” and “Regulated…Out of this World” in the Washington Times, June 2 and…
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Mosquitos and Misinformation Surround Malaria Scare
During this spring and summer, you will hear the sounds of many insects: the buzz of the bee, the chirp of the cricket, the…
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New Earth in the Balance; Same Old Muddled Thinking
May 1, 2000 — Ah, how the time flies. It’s been 30 years since Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and company sponsored the first Earth…
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Kemp: Clean Up the Planet with Sound Science: The Earth Day Crowd Has It All Wrong
Is mankind the greatest threat to the earth, as Vice President Gore and Greenpeace would have us believe, or the best hope for stewardship?…
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EPA Issues Worst Case Scenario Regulations
Washington, DC, April 26 – “Congress scored only a limited victory for public safety by ensuring that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not…
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From Working Girl to Madam: Julia Roberts Procures for the Trial Lawyers
Julia Roberts played a working gal in her first motion picture hit, Pretty Woman. Her career appears to have reached new heights with her…
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You’ve Got Cancer!
Ladies, Don’t Be Fooled By Those Fear-Mongering E-mails Admit it. You’re deep into the mid-afternoon lull when you hear that carol of…
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The Green Man’s Burden
Call it a new noblesse oblige or the Green Man’s Burden. Whatever you call it, the desire of privileged western-world activists to keep poor,…
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Earth Report 2000
Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet Date: 1999 Edited by: Ronald Bailey Published by: McGraw-Hill Earth Report 2000 is a…
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No: Well-Intentioned Boycotts Actually Make the Climb out of Grinding Poverty Even More Difficult
Someone once noted that the law was amazingly equitable – it forbids both the king and the pauper to sleep beneath the bridge! And…
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Africans Have Different Priorities: Ebere Akobundu Op-Ed in the International Herald Tribune
Published in the International Herald Tribune Published in the International Herald Tribune November 26, 1999 Priorities need to…
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