GTIPA Perspectives: COVID-19 Impacts on Adoption of Artificial Intelligence
This report provides GTIPA members’ perspectives on how the COVID-19 pandemic has inspired AI-driven innovations in their countries.
Wed, 12/01/2021
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GTIPA members have issued numerous reports and articles to help policymakers address the coronavirus update. View list.
Key Issues for Reforming the World Trade Organization
This monograph—authored by a subset of GTIPA members—explores the leading challenges facing the WTO and offers a number of policy recommendations for how to address them.
Mon, 09/27/2021
Principles and a Framework of Antitrust for Global Innovation
GTIPA members propose a framework and principles to guide antitrust policy to foster greater levels of global innovation.
Thu, 06/17/2021
A Joint Declaration on the Importance of IPRs to Covid Vaccine Manufacturing Scale-up and Future Pandemic Preparedness
The following declaration sets out why we believe that divisive proposals before the World Trade Organization to override intellectual property rights to promote local vaccine production would do more harm than good. There are better ways to accelerate vaccine manufacturing based on trust and collaboration.
Mon, 05/24/2021
Global Value Chains After the COVID-19 Crisis
GTIPA members explore how global value chains have played an important role in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and helping sustain global economic growth through the crisis.
Thu, 02/25/2021
GTIPA Perspectives: The Importance of E-commerce, Digital Trade, and Maintaining the WTO E-commerce Customs Duty Moratorium
This report shows GTIPA members’ perspectives on e-commerce and digital trade in light of negotiations on new rules World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations are deliberating regarding the moratorium on cross-border electronic transmissions customs duties (i.e., duties on digital products).
Mon, 10/26/2020
GTIPA Perspectives: Nations' Trade Policy Priorities for the Year Ahead
This report provides GTIPA members’ perspectives on their nations’ three most-significant trade priorities for the year ahead. This document aims to deliver a succinct snapshot of what to expect in the coming year regarding trade policy priorities for these countries.
Mon, 10/26/2020
GTIPA Perspectives: COVID-19 Impacts on Public Health and the Economy of GTIPA Member Nations
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic that emerged at the start of 2020 has impacted the global economy and public health to an unprecedented extent. This anthology analyzes the economic and public health impact and policy responses of 20 nations and regions.
Mon, 10/26/2020
A Declaration of Mutual Interest in Trade and Globalization for the Benefit of All Peoples and Nations
A Declaration of Mutual Interest in Trade and Globalization for the Benefit of All Peoples and Nations
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Recent Reports
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A combustible confluence of factors is pushing the US-China trade relationship, and the global trade system in general, into dangerous territory. The Ukraine crisis and the potential for the imposition of painful sanctions and countersanctions only exacerbates the volatility of the moment. As the existing trade system passes away, a new equilibrium will have to be established – but could it be achieved?
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Least-developed countries (LDCs) have faced significant challenges in effectively utilising S&DT flexibilities to integrate into the global trading system better. While S&DT is a cross-cutting issue, it is only one of the WTO's many challenges.
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In the global race to lead in critical technologies, Europe is playing catch-up in some areas while maintaining leadership in select sectors. To benefit fully from its existing competencies, the EU must maintain a technological cutting-edge, strengthen and expand industrial capacities, and diversify its international partners.
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