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INTERVIEW – Wolff: I am in the just-do-it school
Borderlex sat down with Alan Wolff to discuss his new book Revitalizing the World Trading System.
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.
COMMENT – Unilateral import bans on Ukrainian goods: von der Leyen needs to take a stand
Shameful. And dangerous. And this is not about a few tonnes of wheat. This is dangerous for the European Union as a polity. This is dangerous for its standing as a global trading power.
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’.
Comment: As WTO panels slap down Trump-era tariffs, trumpian trade policy prevails
The summer 2023 capped off half a decade of a World Trade Organization wrangling with the rule-book’s national security exception. The process has landed the global trading order in a very uncomfortable place. It’s hard to see a way out unless the system accepts Washington’s zero-sum terms.
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’.
Week in Brussels: GSP scheme extension, Chile, ESA, Chinese beer kegs
This week it became clear that the European Commission is trying to wrap up a range of trade policy files before the EU institutions wind down for elections in the spring 2024. Another deadline is looming with the United States too over a deal on critical raw materials and on …
