This note (originally published in print by the Global Commerce Institute in November 2020) looked at the direction of the U.S. trade policy under the new administration, immediately after the...

On the night of November 7th as Biden officially won the United States presidential election, a clip from several years ago resurfaced to make its rounds on Twitter: the President-Elect can be seen...

President Biden will enter the White House to considerable goodwill from an international community mostly relieved that they don’t have to put up with another four years of President Trump. The...

By Jerker Hellström, Director of the Swedish Center for China Studies.* With two months left until election day in the U.S., the two presidential candidates’ statements on China have come...

A US Presidential election always exerts quite a hold on the political world’s attention, but not often with personal stakes as high as they seem to be in 2020. Quite simply the entire rules-based...

All three of the WTO’s functions - administering multilateral trade rules, serving as a forum for trade negotiations, and providing a mechanism to settle trade disputes - are currently under...

According to Frank Lavin, former US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, ‘trade negotiations should focus on managing what’s good rather than managing what’s bad'. However, US...

After the United States imposed $250billion of tariffs on Chinese goods based on its determination, under U.S. Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, that China had violated trade agreements with the...

Last year was a difficult year for free trade and the international rules-based system. No doubt the US played an important role in this: It threatened old trade partners like Canada and the EU with...

Following the global financial crisis in 2008, the G-2 framework of a global strategic partnership was seen among observers as the way forward for US-China relations. Ten years later and the focus is...