
Laura M. Baughman, President of The Trade Partnership and Trade Partnership Worldwide, LLC, directs the research activities of both firms. She testifies before various U.S. government agencies regarding the likely impacts on competitiveness of prospective or actual trade policies.
Baughman prepares the economic analysis required for countervailing duty and antidumping complaints, Section 201, 301 and 332 investigations, and Generalized System of Preferences requests. She also conducts research in the field of textiles and apparel. Baughman holds degrees in economics from Georgetown (1977) and Columbia (1978) Universities.
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Dr. Joseph F. Francois, Managing Director of Trade Partnership Worldwide, LLC, specializes in assessing the economic effects of trade policies and actions. These include bilateral and multilateral trade liberalization, the imposition of antidumping or countervailing duty orders, or quotas and tariffs resulting, for example, from a safeguard action.
Dr. Francois authored the U.S. International Trade Commission’s COMPAS model during his tenure at the ITC’s Office of Economics, and directed the modeling team at the GATT/WTO during the Uruguay Round. Francois models the economic effects of pending trade agreements, and the impacts on all sectors of an economy of various trade actions or programs. Francois holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland (1988).
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Daniel Anthony, Vice President of The Trade Partnership, manages The Trade Partnership’s advocacy and outreach programs. He coordinates the activities the Coalition for GSP, including the Renew GSP Today website. He also oversees projects employing the firm’s CDxports database.
Since joining The Trade Partnership in 2006, Anthony has specialized on identifying and explaining the local impacts of trade – both exports and imports – on American companies and workers. Numerous national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, CNNMoney, and others, have quoted Anthony on these issues. Anthony holds M.A. and B.A. degrees in international affairs from The George Washington University.
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T: 202 293-4812
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