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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Last month, fif with the U.S. and Ateen nations signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the U.S. however, did not sign. This article by Sean Randolph, Senior Director of the Institute, on Medium.com, details how this will impact current and future trade relationssia.
US policy towards China will be less confrontational and the trade war may be dialed down, Biden will keep up the pressure on scrutiny of Chinese investments in the US, market access for American firms in China, human rights, and Hong Kong. This article by Sean Randolph, Senior Director of the Institute, in South China Morning Post, details how U.S.-China relations will look during the Biden administration.
After a delay of 15 years, there are signs that the push for a free-trade agreement (FTA) between Taiwan and the US is inevitable. Five major elements leading to the right circumstances for an FTA — the international situation, exchanges between Taipei and Washington, cross-strait relations, Taiwanese’s civil awareness and consumer rights protections — have fallen into place.
The established order of things in international trade, the world we have been comfortable with for decades, has been shattered. This is often laid at Donald Trump’s door, given his disdain for the World Trade Organization (WTO) and relish for unilateral actions like tariff surcharges. In reality, the global trading system was in trouble before Trump’s arrival on the scene. He and Robert Lighthizer, his spear-carrier as U.S. Trade Representative, have just been the instruments of disruption, bringing all of the inadequacies and shortcomings of the WTO system to the forefront.
In this report, we consider the impact this would have on the Malaysian economy in terms of trade, investment and industrial collaboration.
The United States was never truly fond of free trade agreements (FTAs). Since 1984, the U.S. has signed FTAs with only 20 countries, the most significant of which was the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), recently replaced with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). In comparison, the European Union has the world’s largest network of preferential trade agreements, having such pacts in force with 77 countries.
With export levels of 2007 and the same number of exporting companies as in 1994, the need for Argentina to promote the Mercosur-EU Agreement is imperative, because it is the only way to increase the income of dollars to the country from exports that will allow the entry of Argentine products with minimum tariffs, until reaching "0", in addition to promoting the integration of Argentina to the world to stop being a country dependent on China.
The economists Iván Cachanosky and Eugenio Marí Thomsen will present their most recent work on the Mercosur-European Union free trade agreement reached on June 28 of last year. How will this alliance benefit Argentina? Will it be possible to achieve it in the short term?