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What Will Happen to U.S. Trade Policy When Trump Runs the Zoo?
What kind of political animals will be making U.S. trade policy in the Trump administration? The tone of the campaign suggests that the...
Manufacturing Discontent: The Rise to Power of Anti-TTIP Groups
Old beliefs, new symbols, new faces. In 2013, a small group of German green and left- wing activists, professional campaign NGOs and...
Europe in the Trumpworld: EU Trade and Security Under the New US Executive
The election of Trump into the Oval Office is much of a non-event for EU trade-policy detail, possibly even the TTIP: they have been deteriorating...
Why Concluding CETA is so Important for the EU
Passions have been running high this week as the EU failed to get an agreement about signing off its trade deal with Canada, what is called CETA. As...
Addressing the Regulatory Divergences in the Medical Devices Sector
Medical devices are not just simple commodities. They are the result of decades of research and development and scientific advancement, and...
The Beauty of Public Procurement in TTIP
The TTIP negotiation is taking another leap of faith as it delves into the question of public procurement this week. The topic is inarguably a...
Progress in TPP on Abuses of State Capitalism
By Sherman E. Katz, Senior Advisor at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and...
Building Value: The Role of Trademarks for Economic Development
Investment in brands drives the allocation of resources in our economy. It increases competition, pushes firms to innovate, and decreases asymmetries...
The Bundes Cloud: Germany on the Edge to Discriminate Against Foreign Suppliers of Digital Services
Matthias Bauer and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comment on Germany’s new guidelines for government procurement of digital services. In this paper, the...
“The Logic of Zero”: Boosting SMEs Trade in TTIP
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has several novelties. One is that it will include, for the first time in a free...