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Digital, Free comment, Latest news, United States
Opinion: Another tomorrow for transatlantic tech rivalry
3 days ago 1 commentThe ongoing Trade and Technology Council is not useless. Its promise rather goes beyond the current generation of bilateral irritants. Such longtermism can hold its value in a policy climate where local politics and Indo-Pacific take precedence over global trade and Europe, write Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Robin Baker.
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Latest news, Perspectives, Security
Perspectives: Making sense of economic security
1 week ago 1 commentG7 leaders agreed a wide-ranging statement on economic resilience and economic security at their recent summit in Japan. The breadth of issues put under this heading contents is a problem and risks simply becoming a laundry list of concerns about China. The European Commission, preparing its own communication on the …
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Exclusive Interviews, Latest news, United States
Benson: EU US Trade and Technology Council’s task is to look ahead
2 weeks ago 0 commentsDuring a recent trip to Brussels earlier this month, the CSIS’ Emily Benson spoke to Borderlex’s Rob Francis about the future of US trade policy, the transatlantic relationship, and her expectations for the next meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council at the end of May in Sweden.
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Anti-coercion instrument, Free comment, GSP, GSP Plus, EBA, Industrial policy and raw materials, Latest news
Comment: The trade policy of Emergency Europe
2 weeks ago 0 commentsEmergency Europe, a term forged during the eurozone crisis reached the EU’s trade policy during the pandemic. There are now-established patterns for many areas of trade policy affected by global and regional turmoil. Let’s brace for a more unpredictable EU.
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Latest news, Perspectives, United States
Perspectives: Friend-shoring is no substitute for having global trade rules
3 weeks ago 0 commentsThere is talk of a new ‘Washington consensus’ on trade as spelled out in a recent speech by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. This Washington view partly overlaps with the EU’s new approach to trade policy. But their new position of domestic industry above anything else will not deliver …
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