Trade & Investment

The authoritative research and analysis by PIIE scholars on the impact of worldwide flows of trade and investment, including the effects on competition, intellectual property rights, and multinational corporations, is widely recognized. Look here to learn about specific trade and investment pacts, disputes, and negotiations.

Recent Content

RealTime Economic Issues Watch

US economic sanctions against human atrocities in China and Myanmar

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)

April 8, 2021
Past Event

A trade and environment negotiations agenda in the WTO: Part 2

Anabel González (PIIE), James Bacchus (Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity, University of Central Florida) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

April 7, 2021
PIIE Chart

Brazil, India, and China have reduced tariffs since 2000, approaching US and EU rates

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)
April 6, 2021
PIIE Briefing

Economic Policy for a Pandemic Age: How the World Must Prepare

Monica de Bolle (PIIE), Maurice Obstfeld (PIIE) and Adam S. Posen (PIIE), editors

April 2021
Op-Eds

Japan needs US to return to CPTPP to expand trade pact

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

April 2, 2021
via Mainichi
Policy Brief

The unappreciated trend toward unilateral trade liberalization

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

March 2021
PIIE Chart

US-China phase one tracker: China’s purchases of US goods

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

March 25, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

How foreign exchange intervention works through saving and investment to move the trade balance

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)

March 22, 2021
Working Paper

Fiscal and exchange rate policies drive trade imbalances: New estimates

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE) and Madi Sarsenbayev (PIIE)

March 2021
Past Event

European Union's new trade agenda

Ignacio Garcia Bercero (European Commission Directorate-General for Trade), Anabel González (PIIE) and Marcus Noland (PIIE)

March 19, 2021