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Ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the President’s Authority Under IEEPA to Impose Tariffs

08/29/2025

How Donald Trump Should have Tackled the US Trade Deficit

08/19/2025

US Negotiators Face Tough Task to Secure Trade Deal with China

08/18/2025

Reflections on the Angels on the Head of Jamieson Greer’s Pin

08/12/2025

Taxation Without Representation: How Trump’s Tariff Policy Undermines Democracy And International Legal Norms

08/04/2025

Trump, Tariffs & Trade Wars

08/04/2025

A Progressive Industrial Policy for the Global South: A Latin American Perspective

07/28/2025

An Alliance For Open Trade: How To Counter Trump’s Tariffs

07/27/2025

Tariffs, Trade Tensions and Climate Policy: The New Frontier of Green Trade Measures

07/26/2025

Which Country Should Design U.S. Industrial Policy?

07/16/2025

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Efforts of Oil Exporters in the Middle East and North Africa to Diversify Away from Oil Have Fallen Short

Adnan Mazarei | PIIE | 04/01/2019

Faced with fluctuating oil prices and other uncertainties, the oil-rich countries of the Middle East and North Africa have made efforts—some for decades—to diversify their exports, in order to reduce…

Economic Growth
Economic Reform
Sustainable Development

The Illicit Tobacco Trade in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Simone Haysom | The Atlantic Council | 03/14/2019

|3.01.19| This groundbreaking study of the illicit tobacc...

Agriculture
Developing Nations
Dispute Settlement
Trade Policy

Local Sourcing in Developing Countries: The Role of Foreign Direct Investments and Global Value Chains

Vito Amendolagine, Andrea F. Presbitero, Roberta Rabellotti, Marco Sanfilippo | World Development | 01/18/2019

Developing Nations
Foreign Direct Investment
Global Value Chains

How the Belt and Road Initiative could reduce trade costs

Francois de Soyres, Alen Mulabdic, Siobhan Murray, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta | VoxEU | 11/28/2018

Belt and Road Initiative
Global Value Chains
Infrastructure
Investment
Supply Chains
Trade Infrastructure
Trade Integration

How Could Africa Be Affected by Product-specific Support for Farm Goods?

Jonathan Hepburn, Christophe Bellmann | International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development | 11/26/2018

Agriculture
Sustainable Development
Trade Agreements
Trade Policy
WTO

Assessing the European Union’s North Africa trade agreements

Uri Dadush and Yana Myachenkova | Bruegel | 11/26/2018

Executive Summary The trade agreements that...

Developing Nations
Investment
Trade Agreements
Trade Blocs
Trade Policy

Trump’s Steel Tariffs Have Hit Smaller and Poorer Countries the Hardest

Chad P. Bown, Euijin Jung and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang | Peterson Institute for International Economics | 11/15/2018

Developing Nations
Tariffs
U.S. Policy

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