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The EU-CPTPP Plan Sends a Message to World Trade Order

Keith M. Rockwell | The Hinrich Foundation | 07/15/2025

A EU-CPTPP agreement will not emerge overnight. Negotiating issues like data, agriculture, energy, and finance are politically sensitive for both sides. But there is a real incentive for these countries…

Operationalising Ursula von der Leyen’s CPTPP Ambitions

Tim Groser, Steve Verheul & John Clarke | Borderlex | 07/01/2025

European Commission president Ursula vo...

The CPTPP: a Benefit of Brexit

Catherine McBride | Briefings for Britain | 09/04/2024

Britain is now a party to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Tr...

US Trade Agreements: Out with the Old and In with the New?

Sahra English | Atlantic Council | 04/18/2023

As the United States moves ahead with a new approach to ...

International Trade Policy is a Vital Part of Our Fight Against Climate Change

Lloyd Russell-Moyle | Labour List | 03/06/2023

One of Joe Biden’s key achievements ...

Look Skeptically at China’s CPTPP Application

Joanna Shelton | Center for Strategic and International Studies | 11/18/2021

China formally applied to the Compre...

President Biden’s Elusive Trade Policy

Gary Clyde Hufbauer | East Asia Forum | 10/31/2021

President Biden’s trade policy recalls Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting ...

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