Trade Policy Toolkit
The Trade Policy Toolkit is a roundup of useful classroom content from our Institute. You'll find dialogues on numerous facets of international trade to supplement your classroom. Whether you teach business, economics, agriculture, politics and policy, or global studies, there is something here for you to help your students examine trade’s connection to your subject area — and why it matters.
USTR should be focused on growing the trade pie
Manufacturing imports are an important part of trade, but they aren’t all of trade. Trade is imports and exports, goods and services, inputs and final goods. Trade is manufacturing, but it’s also agriculture and services. And you need to look at the full picture to understand the distributional impacts of trade and trade policy.

New Patterns of Trade Integration
The drivers of international trade policy are shifting. Geopolitics, a retreat from multilateralism, and the intersection of trade with other policy areas have all combined to erode the traditional assumptions underlying trade policy. What will take their place? We tapped experts from near and far to find out.


Making trade relatable by unpacking the new developments and long-running trends reshaping global markets.
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