Insights (Filter: TPP)
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The Battle for Regulatory Leadership in the Indo-Pacific: From 2016 Rule-Writing to Today’s Multipolar Reality
By: Koen BerdenIn the Indo-Pacific, trade agreements have never been just about tariffs. They are vehicles to set standards and rules; to decide who sets the...
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Biding Time for a New U.S. Trade Agenda
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...
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A US Retreat from TPP: What Does Services Trade Tell Us?
During last weekend’s summit meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, President Obama made the case that failure to sign on to TPP would...
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Realpolitik in ISDS Reform: Will the Commission’s Proposal get us Anywhere?
Things for the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism are not looking good lately. The system has been strongly criticised by civil...
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TPP Giving Mad Men a Run for Their Money
As reported by our friends at the FT, President Obama paid a visit to the Pacific Rim (Portland, Oregon to be precise) to campaign for the TPP...
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Why Europe Needs to Take TPP Seriously
Tags: APEC Australia Canada China EU GATT Japan Malaysia Mexico New Zealand RCEP Singapore TPP TTIP US Vietnam WTOThere's no point any longer in pretending: The geo-economic race over the Asia-Pacific is now on - and in the open. Will the TPP coalition declare...
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Trade, Regulations and TPP
Tags: TPPBy: Fredrik ErixonThe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the twelve-country trade initiative, is often billed by United States to be a “gold standard” trade...
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From the Swiss Formula to the Swiss Cheese Approach to Trade
By: Fredrik ErixonIt is a sign of times that many government officials today spend considerable time thinking about what products that should not be embraced by...
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Spycraft or Economic Statecraft? The EU Won’t Scuttle Trade Talks with the U.S. over Espionage Allegations
(A shorter version was published on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal on July 5th, 2013) Kissinger famously asked, “Who do I...
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Going from Absence to Leadership — Expectations on the EU in the Asia-Pacific region
By Lisa Brandt (former Trade Analyst at ECIPE) Europe should increase its presence in the Asia-Pacific and become more actively engaged. This was the...