Media Inquiries: Sara Huneke
sara.huneke@aei.org; 202.862.4870

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, July 30, 2008
 
The World Trade Organization Doha round trade negotiations collapsed yesterday in Geneva, ending a marathon seven-year attempt to push through a broad range of trade-liberalizing rules. The collapse of the talks was accompanied by immediate recriminations and finger-pointing by the trade negotiators from both developed and developing countries.
 
AEI scholars Claude Barfield and Philip I. Levy are available to discuss the demise of the Doha round and its impact on the future of international trade and the U.S. economy. Barfield is the author of Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001), and Levy is a former senior economist for trade at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
 
Barfield and Levy can be contacted directly at cbarfield@aei.org or 202.862.5879 and philip.levy@aei.org or 202.862.5890. For additional media inquiries, please contact Sara Huneke at sara.huneke@aei.org or 202.862.4870.

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