Hanna Deringer
Email: hanna.deringer@ecipe.org
Office: +32 (0)2 289 1350 Mobile: +32 (0)499 053 102
Areas of Expertise: EU Trade Agreements Trade Defence WTO and Globalization Africa Latin America South Asia & Oceania

Hanna Deringer is a Senior Policy Analyst at ECIPE with a focus on trade policy matters. Her work covers different trade policy areas, including bilateral/regional trade agreements, multilateral trade relations at the WTO, sectoral trade policies, regulatory trade barriers and regulatory cooperation. She has a particular research interest in CGE modelling, non-tariff measures (NTMs) and rules of origin (RoO). In her previous work, she also developed a strong interest in trade relations with and between developing countries (EPAs, regional economic communities) and how trade can contribute to their development.
Before joining ECIPE, she worked at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in the field of private sector development and economic policy. She collaborated in the planning and review of development projects providing technical assistance in the fields of trade promotion and regional economic integration. She participated in project missions in Sub-Saharan-Africa, South Asia and Latin America.
Hanna holds a Master’s degree in International Law and Economics (MILE) from the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Bern, which is focused on the law, economics and political economy of international trade. Prior to that she had also earned a Master’s degree in International Cultural and Business Studies from the Universities of Passau, Limerick and Granada.
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Europe and South-East Asia: An Exercise in Diplomatic Patience
The EU is hoping to revive the negotiations for a region-to-region agreement with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), but few trading partners have faced such inauspicious fate as its members. The trade agreement with Singapore is concluded but remains unsigned and the EU Member States do not seem to be in a hurry to ratify the EU-Vietnam agreement due to the prospects of rejection by the European Parliament over labour issues. There is a...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
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 the use of local inputs and serve the purpose of fostering domestic industries. Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the USA are very frequent users of LCRs. India is by far the most prominent user, followed by Brazil. While LCRs might have perceived benefits related to specific policy...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
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 Partnership, launched a renegotiation of the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, and is now threatening to take the US out of NAFTA. He is also considering other measures that would reduce trade activity – most of it supposedly to reduce the US trade deficit. The US Administration needs a new trade policy strategy if it wants to...
Five Freedoms
The Cost of Non-Schengen for the Single Market
A suspension of the Schengen Agreement would damage the European economy, in particular by undermining the European single market. And it would not just damage the movement of people and labour in Europe. Several studies show that the Schengen Agreement also eases the free flow of goods, services, and capital. Suspending Schengen would therefore constrain all four freedoms. Over time, intra-EU trade flows, European value chains and the competitiveness of the...
Media Mention
Existing Trade Deals Are Good for U.S. Trade Balance
The Heritage Foundation comments on ECIPE research on NAFTA and the US trade...
Media Mention
EU and US on verge of trade war over Trump duties on steel and aluminium
Hanna Deringer is quoted by the Parliament Magazine with ECIPE research on US steel...
Media Mention
EU and business condemn Trump’s steel tariffs plan
Hanna Deringer's research on US steel tariffs is quoted by EU...
Media Mention
New Zealand plays key role in future of rules-based world trading system
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama's and Hanna Deringer's research on New Zealand and its role in the global trading system is published by the National Business...
Article
AfCFTA has great potential, but road ahead may be long and bumpy
Kholofelo Kugler and Hanna Deringer write a commentary for Borderlex on the prospects for the African Continental Free Trade Area...
Article
There’s no success like failure’: Trump’s troubling NAFTA stance
Fredrik Erixon and Hanna Deringer opine in The Hill on the NAFTA re-negotiations and Trump's strategy to reduce the US trade...
Article
NAFTA Is America’s Most Powerful Foreign Policy Tool
Frank Lavin, Fredrik Erixon and Hanna Deringer write in The National Interest on Trump, NAFTA and the US Trade...
Book or Paper
Boosting Trade in Services in the Digitalisation Era
Study by the European Centre of International Political Economy commissioned by the Bertelsmann...
Book or Paper
On Rule-based Trading in Uncertain Times
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Hanna Deringer discuss New Zealand’s role in the new trade architecture for The Policy Observatory at Auckland University of...
Book or Paper
Building for Success: A World Trade Agenda for the Buenos Aires Ministerial
The report discusses the needs for more liberalisation and better rules in global trade and what WTO Members should focus on in the light of the next...
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