Trade Agreements

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.

Quantifying CUSMA: The Economic Consequences of the New North American Trade Regime

This study develops a quantitative analysis of the impact of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), as signed on 30 November 2018. The CUSMA represents a major overhaul of the now-dated 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and is based largely on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) text, signed in 2016, from which the Trump administration withdrew in January 2017.

C.D. Howe Institute Thu, 07/25/2019

Bumper to Bumper: Will the CUSMA Rules of Origin Make America’s Auto Industry Great Again?

The new Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) sets out rules of origin for auto products that need greater clarity to provide certainty for the businesses who must apply them, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

C.D. Howe Institute Wed, 07/03/2019

The Evolution of APEC and its Role in the Philippine Trade and Investment

This paper presents how the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) has evolved as an institution, the changes it has undergone, and the challenges it has faced for the past decades. More importantly, this paper tries to enumerate the roles of APEC in positioning the Philippines in the global economy.

The Philippine Institute for Development StudiesMon, 07/01/2019

From NAFTA to USMCA and the Evolution of US Trade Policy

The Trump administration has pursued a sharply different – and for its trade partners unsettling – trade policy from that followed by all previous American administrations in the postwar period. Is this a good shift?

C.D. Howe Institute Tue, 06/25/2019

Will the USMCA's requirements on regulatory data protection increase spending on medicines?

As parties to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Canada and Mexico have agreed to adopt important intellectual property protections for biologic medicines.

Geneva NetworkSat, 06/01/2019

Report on significant distortions in the economy of the Russian Federation for the purpose of trade defence investigations

Following a long period of unprecedented growth in international trade, the

Center for Social and Economic Research Fri, 05/03/2019

International investment agreements – efficient means to promote Swedish growth

This study discusses pros and cons of the Swedish international investment agreements from an economic perspective.

Swedish Agency for Growth Policy AnalysisFri, 05/03/2019

Who's Afraid of the USMCA?

In particular, this paper focuses on Chapter 20 of USMCA, which contains the intellectual property (IP) provisions. Vocal critics in Canada have claimed that Chapter 20 will add billions of dollars to our health care costs, limit creativity, and unfairly constrain online platforms. The paper addresses each of these.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Wed, 05/01/2019

Unclear on U.S. Trade Policy? President’s Proposed Budget Has Clues

Amid United States Trade Representative (USTR) opaqueness and a lack of details in recent congressional testimony, the Trump Administration’s 2020 budget proposal, released in March, provides some indications about what to expect following two years of tumultuous American trade policy.

The Bertelsmann Foundation (North America) Tue, 03/19/2019

With China, step one is admitting we have a problem

Washington’s trade and economic policy establishment has largely turned a b

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationThu, 02/07/2019

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