Rushford Report Archives - 2003

December 2003

Cover Story
The 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas  Ministerial Meeting

Mooned in Miami

Yankee Trader
Dumping on the Chinese furniture industry

Publius

Commerce Secretary Evans speaks

Players
Protectionist Piggies of 2003

ITC Commissioner Charlotte Lane's first vote

Steelworkers do Miami

Protesting the FTAA -- but why?

The Chinese honey case:  How "unfair" is China?

November 2003

Cover Story
Manufacturing Miseries in the Heartland 

Yankee Trader
Dumping on Mexico

Publius

The Chicago Fed: Why the U.S. benefits from trade with China

Players
How will Karl Rove spin the Bush steel plan?

Wilbur Ross:

Let consumers help me take my company public

October 2003

Cover Story
A Reporter’s Notebook

What Really Happened in  Cancun

Yankee Trader
The Indiana Jones President

Publius

Bob Lighthizer, WTO jurist?

Players
U.S.-Thailand FTA?

Globaphobics do Cancun

“Licensed to Kill, Inc.”

 

September 2003

Cover Story
Trouble in the "Eden of Louisiana"

Yankee Trader
For the U.S. textile lobby: A plan comes together

Publius

Textile lobbyist Jock Nash: My side of the story

Players
Commerce's Joe Spetrini: Turning failure into success

Vietnam's Boeing buy: Turning the other cheek

Dumping plastic grocery bags?

Will Bush whack his steel plan?

August 2003

Cover Story
Bush's "Economic Coalition of the Willing"

Yankee Trader
Certain Color Television Receivers from China and Malaysia: Antidumping as farce

Publius
Did the Bush steel plan really help the domestic industry restructure?

Players
The Washington Post put the spotlight on catfish and Commerce official Joe Spetrini

Why Congress lets the bureaucrats get away with it

Rep. Pete Visclosky The WTO is biased against America

July 2003

Cover Story
Fear Along The Bayou

Yankee Trader
Catfishing For Sympathy

Publius
In Defense of Corporate America:  China and the Philippines

Players
"Michael Moore Starves the Poor"

June 2003

Cover Story
Is the String Running Out for the U.S. Textile Lobby?

Yankee Trader
The world's oldest infant industry

Publius
My side of the steel story by Andrew Sharkey, III

Players
Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Bill Thomas: tax the foreigners

George W. Bush, diplomatic avenging angel

Will Miami pay the price for Bush's stalled Latin American agenda?

U.S. business leaders to WTO:  Get Serious

May 2003

Cover Story
Jacques Chirac: Agricultural Reformer?

Yankee Trader
The political implications of SARS for Hong Kong and China

Publius
How the Bush-Chirac rivalry complicates the WTO's Doha negotiations

Players
In the Oval Office, thinking of coat hangers from China

US to Vietman:  Don't clothe us too well

The US steel lobby: The WTO is "biased" against America

April 2003

Cover Story
Korea: Has the End Game Begun?

Yankee Trader
In Beantown, a valuable lesson for global seafood markets

Publius
Kimchi Diplomacy

Players
Bush Diplomacy: First, fry the French

Will Iraq poison the WTO' Doha Round?

The "anti-free enterprise" United Nations

The agitated Daniel DiMicco

Will U.S. furniture makers declare war on China?

March 2003

Cover Story
Does U.S. Trade Policy Complicate the War on Terrorism?

Yankee Trader
What does the Stand Up For Steel lobby really stand for?

Publius
Shrimpers, get out your duct tape

Players
U.S. Senators

vs. the WTO

Byrd and the silence of the U.S. business lobby 

Textile Quotas:  Where's the real scandal?

 

Shrimp warriors gear up

February 2003

Cover Story
Trade History as Déjà Vu

Yankee Trader
A history lesson:  Why presidents should stay close to their U.S. trade representatives

Publius

Vietnam's unmentionable fish

Players
U.S. catfish farmers celebrate - but for how long?

Domestic steel lobbyists want war - with Turkey

Bush's State of the Union message:  A missed opportunity

January 2003

Cover Story
Why does the U.S. keep losing WTO cases?

Yankee Trader
ACTPN:  Selling the Bush trade agenda

Publius

Who are the best international trade lawyers in the world?

Players
The U.S.-Chile deal:  good news, mostly.

Zoellick to the WTO:  let losers wriggle out of their WTO obligations.

Zoellick on tariffs:  Lord, make me a virgin, later.

Tensions rise in Hong Kong