After Brexit, our attention to UK trade policy has focused mostly on future FTAs, and in particular trade negotiations between the UK and the EU.  But another front has quietly been...

Now that he took office, no shortage of work awaits Mr Hogan, the new EU Trade Commissioner. We review some of his key challenges. ‘I always seem to inherit a job when things are not going too...

A complex question covering signature of the Treaty of Rome, a Customs Union subject to specific GATT rules. It also raised the wider issue of how best to achieve European Integration. The...

Sandra Parthie, Head of Brussels Office at IW Köln, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft There seems to be renewed political appetite for a carbon border tax, judging from the political...

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...

On October 7, ECIPE hosted a discussion on the reform of Special and Differential Treatment (STD) in the WTO. The event started with a presentation of a forthcoming paper by Ms. Inu Manak and Mr....

On October 2, a Commissioner-Designate for the DG Trade Phil Hogan has presented a list of strategic priorities for the next 5-year term in the office. Accordingly, one of his main focus areas will...

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...

By Melina Kolb, Digital Communications Manager at the Peterson Institute for International Economics The Peterson Institute recently experimented with creating its first longform online feature...

By Iain Murray, Competitive Enterprise Institute The global trading system that was set up after World War II and has been so successful in reducing tariffs around the world appears to be on its...