The trade tensions between the United States and China will cause only minor immediate damage to their giant economies. However, tariffs have important and diverse effects on individual sectors and cause heightened uncertainty. […]
This policy brief (PB), prepared for the G-20 Working Group on Trade, aims to provide decision-makers with a succinct review of the state of the trading system, to point to likely scenarios, and to serve as a background to or reference for the other six PBs prepared by the T20 Task Force on Trade, Investment and Globalization. […]
Imagining world trade without the WTO/GATT system. It was after all, the case through recorded history until around 1950. But today’s economies are far more globally integrated than in the past […]
The concern over global imbalances has become an effort to systematically reduce current account deficits and surpluses, feeding the protectionist narrative. […]
In the present era of globalization and rapid technological advance living standards across the world have risen at unprecedented rates, and over a billion people have been lifted out of poverty. […]
Technology and inequality, China’s special status, macroeconomic imbalances, and WTO dysfunction, are the challenges confronted by the world trading system, and which lie at the root of resurgent protectionism. […]
The recently signed African Continental Free Trade Agreement represents a countercurrent to protectionist tendencies across the Atlantic and the Pacific […]
As delegates prepare for the coming WTO Ministerial in Buenos Aires, can one speak of a Trump trade strategy? […]
In the face of exceptional challenges, the G20 should step up its efforts in 2017 to preserve the current global trade and investment system […]
Selon les instruments qu’elle mobilisera, la politique protectionniste de M. Trump aggravera plus ou moins les tensions commerciales. Pour le contrer, les partenaires des Etats-Unis doivent se montrer prêts à prendre des mesures de rétorsion. […]
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