Trade Talks

Higher US lead standards in 2009 resulted in more production and pollution from Mexican plants. Nearby infants and kids suffered.

New quartz technology and competition from Japan devastated the dominant Swiss watch industry of the 1970s. What happened next?

EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be over, but other conflicts remain.

In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping industry’s response offers lessons for other countries.

The “Made in China 2025” subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. But have they worked?

How do we reconcile “record-level” US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between the two economies?

How understanding the WTO’s past can help foster its revival – including for policy challenges like climate and China’s non-market economy.

For decades, Taiwan has limited how and how much its tech firms like TSMC could invest in mainland China. Are there lessons for the United States?

US sanctions on European allies repeatedly failed to stop Russian gas pipelines, harmed transatlantic ties, and undermined US policy.

New research examines how NGOs, consumers, and major retailers responded to the outrage following the 2013 tragedy in Bangladesh.

The leakage of submarine technology to the Soviet Union in the 1980s has lessons for the limits to and coordination of allies’ export controls today.

The WTO ruled against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, dragging the organization into thorny national security issues.

New super apps and other internet-enabled technologies have transformed China’s financial sector, with global implications, says Martin Chorzempa.

New research reveals how Britain’s economy benefited from the brutal transatlantic slave trade and its slave holdings.

A flood of imports from China had an unexpected impact on the Peruvian clothing industry while discouraging Peru’s women workers.

New research examining India’s pandemic lockdowns sheds light on which supply chains stuck together, which broke apart, and why.

The history behind the sudden US ban on certain exports to China, and how the policy affects the global semiconductor supply chain.

In the 1950s, Taiwan was the first poor economy to experiment with trade reform. How its success changed the course of history for others.

Why it matters that Chinese public opinion toward trade and technology may have changed in response to US policy.

America’s new EV subsidies have some carmakers upset. Others are head scratching. Can supply chains diversify away from China?

America’s last attempt at trade talks with countries in the region ended badly. How Biden’s IPEF approach is different.

The Inflation Reduction Act omits the key global minimum corporate tax agreed to by over 135 countries. Will cooperation still happen?

For decades, United Fruit Company exploited banana workers across its Latin American plantations, except in Costa Rica. Why?

From fashion to forks to fishing reels, how US trade negotiations starting in the 1930s resulted in regressive import duties today.

The Advisory Centre on WTO Law made trade enforcement possible for poor countries. The Appellate Body crisis put that under threat.