Abstract
The combined findings of previous chapters on the role of the United States in the creation and diffusion of globalization are posited in an outline explaining how trade policy is created within the United States. The discussion is on the paradox of reversing a legacy of liberalization set forth by the Bretton Woods institution into a reality where the major trade legislative tool is the president’s fast-track authority. The problem is that fast-track limits Congress’s input on trade legislation and in that way impacts the way individual states are represented.