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

Julian Hinz, Moritz Schularick, Keith Head, Isabelle Mejean, Emanuel Ornelas | CEPR | 07/27/2025

The US administration’s latest threat to impose sweeping new tariffs on many of its closest allies signals a renewed embrace of aggressive unilateralism and misunderstood economics. This column argues that…

Indonesia and the TPP: A Potential Coup for Rules-Based Free Trade

Kimura Fukunari | Nippon.com | 12/09/2024

Last September, Indonesia submitted a formal applicat...

Implications of an EU-Mercosur Trade Deal

John Polga-Hecimovich | Geopolitical Intelligence Services | 11/18/2024

For over two decades, Europe and the South Ameri...

Closing the Gap Between Mars and Venus on Trade

L. Daniel Mullaney | Atlantic Council | 10/07/2024

The bottom line In early 2025, a new US administration and Euro...

Mr. Han-koo Yeo on Asia’s Trade & Investment Landscape

Wendy Cutler | Asia Society Policy Institute | 10/01/2024

ASPI Vice President Wendy Cutler Interview...

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