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The Economic Impact of Local Content Requirements: A Case Study of Heavy Vehicles
The use of local content requirements (LCRs) has been growing for a long time. Used by developed as well as developing countries, they aim to promote...
Deepening NAFTA and Signing New Trade Agreements: A US Trade Strategy to Boost the Economy and Reduce the Trade Deficit
President Trump assumed office with one of the more purposeful trade agendas in modern history: he pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific...
China’s Technology Protectionism and iIts Non-negotiable Rationales
China's restrictions on the internet and the ICT sector are tightening, with over 50 measures targeting this sector implemented just in the last...
TTIP, the Revenant
Edward Bowles is a Member of the European Commission’s Advisory Group on TTIP, and writes this in a personal capacity. For those of...
Embracing Innovation and Economic Development: A Policy Perspective for the Asia-Pacific Region
Great Opportunities for Asia-Pacific Economies to Prosper through the Digital Economy — The Asia-Pacific region has great opportunities to...
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...
China in the Global Economy: Leaping Dragon or Paper Tiger?
By some measures already the world’s biggest economy, China is seeking energetically to flex its muscles abroad by launching grand projects such as...
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...