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Risks to the EU from a US-China Trade Agreement
After the United States imposed $250billion of tariffs on Chinese goods based on its determination, under U.S. Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, that China had violated trade agreements with the...
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Episode 7: Europe in a fractured world with Roland Freudenstein
Fredrik Erixon talks to Roland Freudenstein, the Policy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. They discuss this year's European elections, if it really is a title fight...
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Episode 4: What is Trump’s trade strategy for China and Europe? With Frank Lavin
Fredrik Erixon talks to Frank Lavin, the founder and CEO of Export Now, who has served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade. They discuss U.S. trade...
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Episode 3: What to expect from the future US trade policy? With Elena Bryan
Fredrik Erixon talks to Elena Bryan, a Senior Fellow at ECIPE and a Managing Director at Pilot Roc Global Strategies a trade and regulatory consultancy in the United States. The discussion covers the...
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What does the future hold for US trade policy?
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...
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Huawei, which way? Perceptions and US-China Relations
Following the global financial crisis in 2008, the G-2 framework of a global strategic partnership was seen among observers as the way forward for US-China relations. Ten years later and the focus is...
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US Import Tariffs on Steel Threaten the US Economy
Two weeks ago, the US Department of Commerce released its long-awaited Section 232 reports on steel and aluminum. The reports presented the US Department of Commerce’s findings that imports of...
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What’s the Economic Impact of Brexit and the US Withdrawal from TPP?
Dr Kenichi Kawasaki, Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and a leading expert on quantitative modelling of trade liberalisation, revisited ECIPE on March...
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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 “undermine our position across the region”. It would...
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Time to Resist Dovish Temptations?
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates for the first time in nine years (figure 1). However, this decision is still surrounded by uncertainty. On one hand, the US economy has...