Hints and tips:
...Last week wasn’t exactly a triumph for Ursula von der Leyen’s ambition for the EU to play a full geopolitical role....
...They don’t need a cumbersome region-wide negotiating structure....
...Brexit isn’t set to bed in and to fade as a trade issue: probably the opposite....
...Via Scott Lincicome at Cato, the story of the small, affordable Volkswagen electric vehicle that won’t be available to American consumers because it wasn’t made there....
...By the end of 2021, Bown says the EU and India had easily overtaken, producing roughly 2.5bn and 1.6bn doses respectively to the US’s 1bn....
...As the economist Chad Bown has pointed out, the limitations of the DPA were evident during the Covid vaccine drive of 2020-21....
...“When I look at the figures, I don’t see deglobalisation, I don’t see it in trade. I don’t see it in investment and I certainly don’t see it in digital exchanges,” she said....
...A lot of things have disappointed over the past year, but given what it’s been faced with, the actually buying and selling of stuff across borders itself isn’t high among them....
...As the Peterson Institute’s excellent Chad Bown points out, very few others are following the west’s lead....
...Trade links After doing the Lord’s work tracking China’s (entirely worthless) promises to buy more US exports, the saintly Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute and colleagues are now running a sanctions...
...Chad Bown, of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, suggests governments essentially need to subsidise the extra manufacturing capacity, otherwise it doesn’t happen....
...As Chad Bown points out in his chart on page 14 here, most of the higher tariffs of 25 per cent are on intermediate inputs. (There’s a snapshot of Bown’s workings in the chart below.)...
...It won’t be efficient, but it’s your money you’re wasting....
...However, as Bown explains, a big reason for this is that the pandemic has led to far lower spending on goods such as US-manufactured automobiles and aircraft....
...But blindly following a sloganistic strategy such as “onshoring” or even “diversification” isn’t enough....
...Claire Jones Trade links The Peterson Institute’s Chad Bown on the false allure of managed trade....
...“Ideally, we need Russia and Ukraine to supply grain to the rest of the world,” says Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, a think-tank in Washington....
...Chad Bown, from the Peterson Institute, looks systematically at why Trump/Biden trade policy is the way it is....
...We don’t have very cheering news....
...The Peterson Institute’s Chad Bown and Thomas Bollyky of the Council on Foreign Relations) explain how the WTO could facilitate a vaccine investment and trade agreement....
...Bown discuss Europe’s trade policy and why the EU is developing a host of new policy tools to address concerns over bullying by trading partners....
...Claire Jones Trade links Ahead of Katherine Tai’s speech, the Peterson Institute’s Chad Bown reminds us of how badly the Trump administration’s unilateral dealings with China worked out (our characterisation...
...Bown again: “The US has to go beyond just telling Japan, South Korea and the Dutch what they can and can’t export....
...Claire Jones Trade links One of the trade world’s top Covid vaccine distribution gurus, Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute, explains how to repurpose supply chains for jabs that don’t make it through...
...The Commission doesn’t have tens of billions of euros to chuck around....
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