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SUMMARY:The future of trade agreements: have they been 'Trumped'?
DESCRIPTION:This comprehensive session on free trade agreements in the er
 a of Trump and Brexit will be guided by an opening presentation Professo
 r Jennifer Hillman of the Georgetown Law Center to set the stage for aud
 ience roundtable discussions on the future of multilateralism in a bilat
 eral free trade agreement era\, followed by roundtable remarks and a clo
 sing summation on those remarks by professor Hillman.  President Trump w
 ithdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)\, the
  former 12-nation trade agreement encompassing 36% of the GDP of the wor
 ld. That withdrawal followed on the heels of an inaugural pledge to prot
 ect US borders from “the ravages of other countries making our products\
 , stealing our companies and destroying our jobs”\, and came less than s
 ix months after British citizens voted to withdraw from the European Uni
 on. This session will explore the implications of these actions and the 
 rise of economic nationalism for the rule of law and our multilateral tr
 ading system\, including in particular the World Trade Organization (WTO
 )\, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)\, the TPP\, and bila
 teral investment treaties. The session will focus on whether and how mul
 tilateralism can or should be saved and what needs to be done to protect
  the legitimacy and the relevance of our international economic institut
 ions\, particularly the WTO. It will examine the causes and possible sol
 utions to the backlash against globalisation.  The rise of bilateral and
  regional agreements and the role they play in our trade and investment 
 policies will be examined. The opening presentation will set the stage f
 or six audience roundtable discussions of the challenges to\, and develo
 pments in: 1) the TPP\, 2) Brexit\, 3) NAFTA\, 4) Mercosur and Latin Ame
 rica\, 5) Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Associa
 tion of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)\, and 6) the WTO.
LOCATION:Room C4.7\, Convention Centre\, Level 4
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