This week’s main think tank focus has been on the EU, its deforestation regulation, EU-Mexico relations and EU-UK relationships. 

It’s been a big publishing week for think tanks. On the menu: the EU’s Indo-Pacific strategy revisited, a call for an EU US economic agreement by a former senior USTR official, more recommendations to fix the Appellate Body question, and more number crunching on the EU’s trade dependence on China.    …

This week’s think tank column focuses on what onshoring and revoking Chinese permanent normal trade relations status really mean for the United States economy, improving regional trade agreements to benefit agricultural trade and the impacts of the European Union’s carbon border adjustment mechanism on Vietnam. 

In this week’s Think Tank edition: Alan Wolff discusses the legalities of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs and William Reinsch comments on the need for a coordinated global strategy to deal with China’s overcapacity. Also, the Hinrich Foundation reports on potential for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations digital agreement to …

In this week’s Think Tank column: the divergent fate of US-China and EU-China trade and imagining what a second Donald Trump term would mean for global trade. 

This week’s post-summer break Think Tank edition features a working paper by the International Monetary Fund on the effect Chinese subsidies on trade and a short piece from the Hinrich Foundation that explores weather China’s overseas direct investment is outflanking US tariffs imposed since the Trump era. 

In this week’s Think Tank edition: Bruegel explores alternative policies to the European Union’s countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles and the International Institute for Sustainable Development published the first two reports of a series that looks at the effects of the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism.