News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
It’s been a big week for the big supply chain sustainability pieces of legislation of the soon-ending von der Leyen European Commission. A trilogue deal on forced labour was inked, and Coreper might well also endorse a watered-down version of the CSDDD corporate sustainability due diligence legislation today. It’s also …
MC13: Hinrich Foundation’s Keith Rockwell – WTO relevance at stake Following a disappointing 13th WTO ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi last week “A collapse of the organization is not impending, but its relevance remains the biggest question looming over the WTO,” writes Keith Rockwell, who has served many years as …
This week’s international trade think tanks’ focus: The WTO and the question of restoring its dispute mechanism, the US toying with the idea of rescinding China’s most-favoured nation status and the latter’s global product-level dominance.
Here are this week’s highlights from trade focused international think tanks.
Here a selection of think tank pieces on the current state of international trade policy…
Trump, the Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council, energy security… and MSMEs. Here some highlights of what think tanks have written about in recent days.
In focus with think tanks this week: the World Trade Organization and US trade policy.
The WTO is in focus in this first week of work after the Christmas break as the countdown to MC13 begins. And so is the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework with the US elections around the corner.
Happy New Year dear readers! Brussels has been very quiet this week, but activity is bound to pick up on Monday (8 January). Whoever from Brussels is still on on holiday will return to some uneasy realities that will need to be handled in the coming months as the EU …
Washington based CATO Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies have been busy breaking down a newly released select committee report on Sino-American economic relations while the WTO’s chief economist Ralph Ossa was focused on digital trade.
