Stephen Simchak

Bio

Steve Simchak is an international trade and business professional from Washington, DC and Pennsylvania. He currently works for an association that represents US services corporations in international trade matters, and previously was a Legislative Assistant to Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA). Steve holds a Master of Science in Global Politics degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's Degree in History, Phi Beta Kappa, from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Steve's hobbies include writing, shooting skeet and sporting clays, playing squash, and travel.
U.S.-EU Super Trade Pact: How the Two Can Drive the Global Economy Once More
By Stephen Simchak
While much of the world’s attention understandably is focused on the growing importance of Asia in the global economic system, November’s U.S.-EU summit presented an opportunity for renewing the transatlantic partnership. As the summit showed, a new…
Message To Congress: Trade Pacts Create Jobs
By Stephen Simchak
The U.S. has been left behind as America’s trading partners continue to charge ahead with trade agreements. And much to the detriment of the American worker, the U.S. seems unwilling to catch up. American allies and competitors understand that to…
Stalled Doha Round Opens Trade Opportunities
By Stephen Simchak
In November 2001, the world’s trade negotiators undertook an ambitious round of multilateral negotiations under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). A decade later, those efforts have stalled. With medicine too sour for developing and…
India's State Elections Provide the Prospect for Liberal Economic Reform
By Stephen Simchak
Though not capturing many headlines in the United States and elsewhere, India’s five on-going state-level elections could have important consequences for the global economy, and for Indians and non-Indians alike. India’s state elections can be…
House Republican Freshmen Reject Protectionism
By Stephen Simchak
The concern during the 2010 election that a large, more-conservative Republican freshman class in the House of Representatives would embrace protectionism appears to be unfounded. 67 of 87 Republican freshmen sent a letter to President Barack Obama…
Global Trade and Rebirth in American Manufacturing
By Stephen Simchak
Criticizing free trade as the cause of decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs has become the politically expedient modus operandi for many. Such explanations, however, ignore the real reason there are fewer manufacturing jobs in America: increased…
Misrepresentations of Trade: The Short Changing of Services
By Stephen Simchak
Last month, Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), wrote a thought-provoking Op-Ed in the Financial Times suggesting the current method of calculating international trade balance is outdated because it fails to take…