Trade Talks

Despite the Medicines Patent Pool, COVID-19 treatments remain scarce globally. Prashant Yadav explains what more is needed.

Joe Glauber explains the humanitarian crisis that looms if war cuts wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia. Soumaya Keynes says goodbye.

After years of dispute, the EU agreed to stop retaliating and to limit exports if the US lifted Trump’s national security tariffs.

The US reacted to COVID-19 shortfalls of hospital masks, gowns and gloves with unprecedented trade and industrial policy.

Worried about being bullied by trading partners, the European Union is developing a host of new policy tools.

CBAM! The EU proposes phasing out free permits from its emissions trading system and phasing in a carbon tax on some imports.

Legally and technologically, paper documents are essential to international trade. How that could change (it involves blockchain).

A beginner's guide to the spat over Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol, plus the UK signs a new trade deal with Australia.

The G7 economies agreed to a potential historic change in how governments tax multinational corporations.

COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine inputs are in short supply globally. How the EU, UK, US and India are all limiting exports.

Companies and regulators have begun to worry about the spike in container shipping costs and pandemic-related trade disruptions.

India, South Africa, and more than 50 other countries propose changing WTO rules for vaccines and other medical supplies. Rachel Silverman (Center for Global Development) and Tom Bollyky (Council on Foreign Relations) help explain compulsory...

President Biden’s first trade action was to tighten rules on what imports the US government can buy.

Sabine Weyand joins to discuss EU trade policy, transatlantic cooperation and conflict, China, forced labor, WTO, climate and more.

The EU and UK announce their long-awaited trade agreement formalizing Brexit. What is covered, and what is still to be negotiated.

How and why the United States is banning exports of semiconductors, software and tools to some of the world’s largest companies.

Concerns escalate that forced labor and other crimes against humanity are taking place in Xinjiang, China.

From tariff leverage to trade deals, a former USTR explains how the baton is handed from one American administration to the next.

China, Japan, South Korea and 12 other Asian countries finally signed that mega-trade deal. Here’s what’s in it.

The incoming US administration inherits a big trade agenda. Who will lead it and how much of it will they do?

From Corn Laws to Imperial Preferences to joining the EEC, Britain’s current trade policy conundrum has echoes from the past.

Containerized shipping is an odd business in normal times. What happens when you add a pandemic and a trade war?

At the turn of the century, electronic communication suddenly helped firms fragment production, but only some went overseas.

London’s central role in 19th century trade finance meant that its bank failure had effects for decades.

China, the US and Germany each suffer from inequality and trade imbalances. Their linkages, and how policymakers try to fix them.