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Ep 10 – WITA’s Friday Exchange: Beyond Tariffs and Multilateral Treaties. September 11, 2025. On this week’s episode, former U.S. and global trade negotiators, including Dawn Shackleford, discuss the WTO and multilateralism, as U.S. trade policy shifts towards bilateral trade deals and countries seek to make the WTO fit for purpose in a changing trade landscape.
Dawn Shackleford is awarded the Women in International Trade (WIIT) Government Service Award, 2025. The award recipient is an individual who has dedicated their public service career for any government to advancing to the interests of international trade and commerce.
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For countries that have reached deals, significant issues remain unresolved. Dawn Shackleford, who has worked in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce, pointed out that the agreements all lack enforcement measures, a standard component of such deals.

“What is making these agreements binding?” she said. “Traders can’t rely on a PDF of a letter they need; they need, you know, something with some type of legal certainty to make it binding for them to be able to properly comply.”

Shackleford, who advises domestic importers, has also been fielding concerns about how the tariffs will be implemented by Customs and Border Protection, due to the number of different tariffs that apply to some items. August 1, 2025