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Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Trump’s Trade War Timeline: An Up-to-Date Guide

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Melina Kolb (PIIE)
December 18, 2020
How Trade Helps Each Side
Short Videos

How Trade Helps Each Side

Featuring Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE), Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu (PIIE) and Junie Joseph (PIIE)
December 18, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump poses as he signs a presidential proclamation placing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports while surrounded by workers from the steel and aluminum industries at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 8, 2018.
REUTERS/Leah Millis
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Measuring Trump's 2018 Trade Protection: Five Takeaways

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang (PIIE)
February 15, 2019
Short Videos

Why International Trade and Investment Are Good for the US Economy: A Story in Eight Charts

Featuring Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs (PIIE)
March 20, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru November 19, 2016.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Op-Eds

The Truth about Trade Agreements—and Why We Need Them

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
November 21, 2016

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RealTime Economic Issues Watch

The Brexit agreement: An economic guide for the perplexed

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)

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

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

January 21, 2021
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Getting America back in the game: A multilateral perspective

Anabel González (PIIE), Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute, Geneva) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

January 19, 2021
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

The United States can return to multilateral economic cooperation. Here's how.

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Anabel González (PIIE)

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Speeches & Papers

Five Flaws in the USMCA

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

January 7, 2021
via inFOCUS Quarterly
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Rebuilding the Global Economy: Role of the European Commission in trade, regulation, and innovation

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE), Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE), Nicolas Véron (PIIE), Reinhilde Veugelers (PIIE) and Jean-Pisani Ferry (PIIE)

December 21, 2020
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Memo to the European Commission on the future of European trade policy

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

December 21, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Trump’s Trade War Timeline: An Up-to-Date Guide

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Melina Kolb (PIIE)

December 18, 2020
Past Event

What trade policy priorities for the Biden administration?

Anabel González (PIIE), Michael Froman (Mastercard; former United States Trade Representative) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

November 18, 2020
Past Event

Rebuilding the Global Economy: Role of the WTO and US approaches to it

Anabel González (PIIE), Chad P. Bown (PIIE), J. Bradford Jensen (PIIE) and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance; Former Minister of Finance, Nigeria; Former Managing Director of the World Bank)

November 16, 2020