Economic Policy Institute to host event on 'The China Syndrome'

Posted by LDonia on 07/10/2012

On Tuesday July 17, 2012, The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) will host a forum on the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) paper, The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States.

Forum participants will discuss the impact that trade with China has on jobs and wages for American workers.

Panelists will include: Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow-Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution; Thea Lee, Deputy Chief of Staff and Economist, AFL-CIO; and Robert Scott, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute.

The featured presenter will be David Autor, co-author of the NBER paper, as well as Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Faculty Research Associate with NBER.

Trade with China is a current and pressing issue.  As the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) explained last week, trade actions with China are a major election year topic:

The Obama Administration announced today that it was filing a trade case at the WTO regarding China's imposition of duties totaling more than $3 billion on U.S. auto exports.”

For more information on the event, go here.

To learn more on the NBER paper, click here.

AAM Intern Leigh Raup wrote this post.

1 comment

Anonymous wrote 49 weeks 20 min ago

China owns too much of the United States consumer market as it

The United States Has an Economic Deficit the size of the Grand Canyon. We Climb Out Of the Canyon Or We Fall into it. We Must Stop Back Peddling regarding our Economy or declare our third world status as a Country. NO unfair trade agreements. that takes away our Jobs lowers our standard of living.No to anything that takes another picket off the fence that goes with the American Dream.

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