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Blog Post
October 16, 2020
The global economy is gradually healing from the economic blows dealt by the coronavirus pandemic, but the recovery remains fragile and halting. Reduced trade is more a symptom than a cause of those trends—and what governments do in terms of additional fiscal stimulus will do far more to determine t...
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July 10, 2019
Global trade is facing strong political headwinds in the United States. While evidence shows trade generally yields economic benefits on balance, gains are distributed unevenly. Trade agreements are also negotiated in secret and increasingly address regulatory issues in ways that raise concerns amon...
Blog Post
December 15, 2017
Expectations were low for the eleventh World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires, and on most accounts it still managed to under-deliver. This time around, US and Indian negotiators refused to compromise in service of achieving a consensus agreement in any area. Ro...
CGD in the News
July 27, 2016
This week Theresa May took her first foreign trip as Britain’s new prime minister, to reassure the continentals that they weren’t being cut off. The size of the task involved in reshaping British trade relations after exiting Europe became clearer. A major takeover showed either that Bri...
Blog Post
July 18, 2016
While the United Kingdom (UK) is working out its relationship status with Europe, it will also have to resolve its trade relations with the rest of the world. The UK will need to establish the foundation on which new trade relationships will be built—that means bringing its membership in the W...