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A Trans-Pacific Partnership Worth its Weight in Gold – But What is Taking so Long?
A gold standard – nothing less. The expectations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership are high. TPP is central to the United States’ foreign policy...
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Ideas for New Transatlantic Initiatives on Trade
The US and the EU have the capacity to play a leading role together in promoting international trade liberalisation. They remain the economic giants...
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Public Support for Trade Policy
Public opinion data suggests that people on both sides of the Atlantic are committed to free trade in principle, but advocate protection...
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The Multilateralism Conundrum: International Economic Relations in the Post-hegemonic Era
Examining the systemic malaise from which the Doha Development Round and the WTO suffer, this working paper, produced for the Transatlantic Task...
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Is the Renminbi Undervalued? The Myths of China’s Trade Surplus and Global Imbalances
Alarmed by the persistent and large US trade deficit vis-à-vis China and the rapidly swelling Chinese foreign exchange reserves, influential US...
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A New Trade Agenda for Transatlantic Economic Cooperation
Few policy issues in Brussels and Washington DC are met with such a compact unity across political boundaries as the idea of deepened transatlantic...
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A Transatlantic Divide?
The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be...
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Germany and the G-8 Presidency
Germany’s G-8 Presidency occurs in a formative period for German foreign economic policy. It is about to step out of the post-Cold War order, but...