The appointment of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization has been called historic. She is the first female and first African head of the Organization - a...

What’s the role of WTO in global trade policy? The WTO is not in a good shape today and multilateral trading arrangements are under considerable strain. At the same time, the COVID-19 crisis has...

‘Buy American’, ‘Dual Circulation’, ‘Strategic Autonomy’ – these, and similar ideas, have been around or in gestation for some time.  They are based on governments’ assessments...

President Biden will enter the White House to considerable goodwill from an international community mostly relieved that they don’t have to put up with another four years of President Trump. The...

In this episode, Fredrik Erixon talks to David Henig, the director of the UK Trade Policy Project. They discuss what is the UK trying to accomplish with its trade policy now that it is independent...

A US Presidential election always exerts quite a hold on the political world’s attention, but not often with personal stakes as high as they seem to be in 2020. Quite simply the entire rules-based...

Global trade policy is in poor health. The relevance and integrity of the WTO have been eroded. Trade wars and commercial frictions have replaced the past spirit of gradually expanding the scope for...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Dan Ikenson, the director of the Cato Institute's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies. They start their discussion by talking about how free trade is seen in...

The European Commission updated its trade forecasts for 2020 which followed the WTO’s estimates for this and next year. Both reports agree on a dramatic drop in trade volume due to the economic...

On the 20th of March 2020, the EU made a big announcement. To help companies ramp up production on medical goods, 11 standards were made available for free. Anyone could download and read the EU...