Strengthening the Rules-Based Trading System
The world trading system has been remarkably successful in many respects but is presently under tremendous strain. The causes are deep-seated and require a strategic response. […]
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Seven Predictions About the World Without the WTO
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 […]
International Economic Cooperation in Troubled Times: A Call for Strong Action by the G20
The danger emerges from an unholy trinity of insufficiencies in the trade book to address persistent trade distorting practices in major players, primarily with respect to a revival of mercantilist ideas, populist governments championing economic nationalism and uncompetitive advantages of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs). […]
US steel and aluminium tariffs: how should the EU respond?
President Trump and his trade team are set on a path of protectionism and economic nationalism. Trump’s intended measure raises four issues for the EU […]
The Protectionist’s Progress: Year 1
As delegates prepare for the coming WTO Ministerial in Buenos Aires, can one speak of a Trump trade strategy? […]
Wage stagnation in the United States: some international implications
The rise of protectionism, economic nationalism and nativism in the United States can be attributed inter alia to the nation’s wage stagnation and rising inequality. […]
The Future of Globalization
This brief reviews the main features of the recent globalization, attempts to explain its persistence over the centuries and why it is likely to persist in the indefinite the future […]
Trade Backlash and the World Trade Organization
Embed from Getty Images Author: Uri Dadush Originally published by the OCP Policy Center The best way I can describe my feelings about trade these days is as an unstable anxiety disorder. Following on November […]
Key policy options for the G20 in 2017 to support an open and inclusive trade and investment system
In the face of exceptional challenges, the G20 should step up its efforts in 2017 to preserve the current global trade and investment system, including effective multilateral dispute settlement procedures, while not losing sight of medium-term reforms. The G20 should focus on (1) supporting the World Trade Organization, (2) being upfront about the mixed effects of trade and investment, (3) improving G20 measures to tackle protectionism and (4) promoting investment facilitation. […]
Mega-Regional Trading Arrangements, the WTO, and Responses of Excluded Countries
This conference aims at addressing issues around the state of world trade and what motivates the Trans-Pacific and Transatlantic Negotiations […]