Background The political agreement on the EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in July was rushed by political optics, including Trump-era tariffs and pressure to compete...

Publication of a first UK government trade strategy since Brexit was an important step in finally setting out a realistic view of the global economy and the UK's place within that. Positive momentum...

Fortunately, recent times have seen senior European leaders giving more support to new trade agreements than we have been used to in the past decade. The ratification process of the EU-Mercosur...

The global trade environment is presently marked by deep uncertainty and rapid changes. Headlines range from new tariff threats launched under US President Donald Trump to announcements of opaque...

A few days after the publication of a Joint Statement and the details of the EU-US trade deal, European leaders were taken by surprise by another tariff threat coming across the Atlantic. The EU...

In this episode of the Global Economy Podcast, Fredrik Erixon speaks with Stuart Harbinson, former WTO Ambassador and senior fellow at ECIPE, about the state of global trade, the Trump tariffs, and...

Is global trade about to be so bruised we can no longer talk about a global economy? As we’re getting close to the deadline for the Trump tariff deals, it’s only natural that the question is...

This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 6th of July 2025. The original article can be found here. On 9 July – or maybe later who knows – Donald Trump is expected to...

Welcome to the Magaverse – a parallel economic universe where imports equal weakness, deficits are enemies, and protectionism is salvation! Since his campaign, Trump has been clear that tariffs...

Unresolved political economy contradictions are becoming more evident – between a national manufacturing narrative versus actual technology-led globalisation, balancing open trade versus...