Trade agreements—whether multilateral ones through the WTO, plurilateral ones such as the CPTPP, or bilateral agreements between two nations—represent the foundational vehicle through which nations remove trade barriers and deepen trade linkages. This category includes a wide array of GTIPA-member reports examining trade agreements their nations have implemented.
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Supportive international trade rules and sustainable development are inextricably linked in multifarious ways. As major beneficiaries and active participants in trade agreements, whether these agreements be regional, plurilateral, or multilateral, Asian countries are well-placed to take a front-running position in the reform of the global trading system.
PRIME’s new report, “Customs Tariff Reforms: one step forward, two steps back” finds that country is lagging to diversify its produce, markets and our domestic industries remained inefficient on the back of insignificant tariff reforms. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government came to power with the reformative agenda to augment industrialization and exports of the country but “Make in Pakistan” remained a slogan because contemporary tariff structure restricts innovation and efficiency.
While governments struggle to find consensus in the lead-up to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) critical ministerial conference (MC12) at the end of November, there is a highly significant global development that won’t even be touched on at the meeting: the spread of trade embargoes and economic sanctions.
Economic, trade, innovation, and global value chain (GVC) linkages between the United States and Taiwan are vitally important to both nations’ advanced technology industries and broader economies. Policymakers should work to deepen them.
Expanding the membership of rule of law countries such as the US, India and Taiwan in the CPTPP will be an important counter to an aggressive, totalitarian regime in Beijing, write David Kilgour and David Matas.
Development and growth are never politically neutral and cannot be interpreted from only a technical or macro-economic viewpoint. This article charts the intertwining of trade and investment patterns in the Horn of Africa with geopolitical trends and local dynamics, and highlights the entry points for conceptualizing political and business risks for FDI.
As humans continue to encroach on natural habitats, Covid-19 will not be the last zoonotic disease to evolve into a global pandemic. While we are still assessing the fallout from the pandemic and weighing measures to mitigate its consequences, there are three ways that trade agreements must evolve to reflect this new reality.
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.
The European Union conducts a trade policy which is to ensure the best possible opportunities for economic cooperation with third countries. It includes free trade and investment agreements. The EU has so far signed 41 such agreements with 72 countries.