ASEAN’s strategic flexibility, critiques of the EU’s open strategic autonomy, SME e-commerce and WTO negotiation strategies have all been in the limelight for trade-focused think tanks this week.
Author: Maia Wilson
THINK TANK: Friendshoring, APEC, trade preferences for sanctions support, EU-Australia
Here is a roundup of what trade focused international think tanks have been doing this week.
THINK TANK: Climate clubs, balancing sustainable trade, IPEF
This week among international think tanks: de-risking from China, the Hinrich Foundation’s new 2023 Sustainable Trade Index and Biden’s IPEF.
Think Tank: WTO and food security, tech and cyber, EU-US
Below is a flavour of what think tanks have been writing on in the trade field this week.
THINK TANK: Ukrainian grain, onshoring, UK’s Rishi Sunak
International think tanks covered a vast range of topics this week; Bruegel comments on the Ukrainian grain import spat, the Washington based CATO Institute makes a case for free trade and the Center for Inclusive Trade Policy’s Alan Winters questions Sunak on Brexit and UK trade.
THINK TANK: Subsidies wars and supply chain diversification efforts
Preventing a subsidies war, export restrictions, non-economic objectives, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and reducing critical dependencies have all been in the spotlight for international think tanks. Here are some highlights from the last fortnight, where heavy-hitters have chimed into today’s existential debates on the future of the trading system.
THINK TANK: East Asia trilateral, JSIs, UK and EU CBAMs
Economic security in the Indo-Pacific region, the WTO’s plurilaterals and border carbon adjustment mechanisms (again!) have been in the spotlight this week among international think tanks.
THINK TANK: Border carbon measures, digital trade, interdependencies
In this week’s think tank column: carbon border adjustment, digital services trade and ‘strategic autonomy’.
THINK TANK: IFD, security exceptions, CPTPP, US investment restrictions, EU friend-shoring
Here is a roundup of what trade think tanks have been up in August thus far. The Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Hinrich Foundation have been focusing on WTO issues, while the European Council on Foreign relations focuses on the EU’s version of ‘friend-shoring’.
Think tank: Russian LNG, Net Zero Industry Act, CSDD in Vietnam
This week it’s Brussels’ Bruegel that isn’t pulling any punches on critical EU policies on Russian gas and net-zero technologies. The Institute for European Environmental Policy is proposing ways to implement the new EU sustainability due diligence regulations in countries such as Vietnam.
