Mr. Greg J. Mastel

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  Published on: 7/2/2009    Last Visited: 7/2/2009  

  A bigger concern is whether China, whose exports have plummeted, will take action like devaluing its currency to prop up exports, triggering protectionist responses around the world, said Greg Mastel, a senior policy adviser at Akin Gump.
  
  "I think that's a much more realistic fear than the U.S. moving unilaterally toward trade protectionism," Mr. Mastel said.
  
  Obama is likely initially to take a go-slow approach to new trade liberalizing agreements combined with more aggressive enforcement of existing pacts, he said.
  
  Meanwhile, Congress appears to be on the verge of passing a major expansion of federal retraining and unemployment assistance to help workers who have lost their jobs because of imports or jobs moving overseas.
  
  An improved U.S. safety net would ease, if not eliminate, pressures for protectionism, both Messrs. Mastel and Gresser said.

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  Published on: 5/20/2008    Last Visited: 5/20/2008  

  I can't see the free trade agreements moving through Congress until something on TAA is done," said Greg Mastel, a senior adviser at the Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld law firm.

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  Trade economist Greg Mastel, for instance, told the New York Times that the rising trade deficit and strengthening dollar were "the Damocles' sword hanging over us—the largest long-term threat to our economy.

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  "In China, like in many Asian countries, money buys influence," Greg Mastel, Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute, told the Washington Times last Spring.

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  The US should sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan, Greg Mastel, an international trade adviser at the law firm Miller & Chevalier in Washington said in an article published in today's issue of the Washington-based Weekly Standard.

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  Published on: 10/21/2007    Last Visited: 10/21/2007  

  China's government has always seen foreign investment as a potential threat to information control, says Greg Mastel, director of global economic policy at the Washington, D.C.-based New America Foundation.Now, he says, the Internet's burgeoning growth has exacerbated "something that they've worried over for a long time."
  
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  Greg Mastel
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  Greg MastelGreg Mastel is a principal at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, D.C. During the 107th Congress, Mr. Mastel was the Chief International Trade Advisor and Chief Economist for the Senate Finance Committee.In these positions, he was the lead staff person on a number of important issues, including passage of the Trade Act of 2002, the trade provisions in the 2002 farm bill, the U.S.- Jordan Free Trade Agreement and other free trade agreements, the integration of the U.S. Customs Service into the new Department of Homeland Security, and changes in U.S. tax policy related to recent adverse World Trade Organization decisions.His full biography is available here (external website).

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  Greg Mastel, Stopping the Giveaway of Canada's Forests - Establishing True Free Trade in Softwood Lumber (Global Economic Policy Project, New America Foundation) (Oct. 2000).

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  A bigger concern is whether China, whose exports have plummeted, will take action like devaluing its currency to prop up exports, triggering protectionist responses around the world, said Greg Mastel, a senior policy adviser at Akin Gump.
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  "I think that's a much more realistic fear than the U.S. moving unilaterally toward trade protectionism," Mastel said.
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  An improved U.S. safety net would ease, if not eliminate, pressures for protectionism, both Mastel and Gresser said.

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  Published on: 3/2/2005    Last Visited: 5/8/2005  

  "It means nothing by itself," said Greg Mastel, chief international trade advisor at the law firm of Miller & Chevalier. "Actual membership talks could drag out for months or years or decades, or it could move very quickly," Mastel said, adding that if Washington chooses, it would have the power to "slow things down" or block Tehran's accession down the road. Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the largest economies still outside the trade body, have been negotiating for a decade.

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