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...

Initiatives to dismantle/redesign/reform the WTO (delete whichever is inapplicable according to your preference) continue apace. Towards one end of the spectrum, USTR Jamieson Greer writes (in a...

By Hao Wu, research assistant at ECIPE Timeline Made with time.graphics NVIDIA’s H20 GPU resumed sales to China as the company announced Washington’s decision on July 15. The unexpected move...

Trump’s tariffs will fail in his objective of transforming trade, particularly if others remain open and resist retaliation. In this context the EU’s deal is fine in the short-term but should...

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...

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...

Frank Lavin joins Fredrik Erixon on the ECIPE Global Economy podcast to discuss his book Inside the Reagan White House: A Front Row Seat to Presidential Leadership with Lessons for Today. The...

El episodio 4 del pódcast Sin Arancel de por Medio presenta una conversación con Carlos Ruiz-Hernández, ex vicecanciller de Panamá y actual asesor en CSIS y el Inter-American Dialogue. El...

In this episode of the ECIPE Global Economy Podcast, Fredrik Erixon speaks with Alex Capri about his new book Techno-Nationalism: How It Is Reshaping Trade, Geopolitics, and Society. The conversation...