Trade policy

Russian foreign trade tracker

Tracking Russian trade using data from the EU, China, the US, South Korea, Japan, India, the UK, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, Brazil and Kazakhstan

The Nexperia crisis: a wake-up call for Europe’s approach to Chinese investment

What turned 2025 into a year of better averages and bigger challenges?

Resource Productivity: Europe’s Overlooked Route to Economic Security

What can Europe do to mitigate economic security risks?

From strategy to doctrine: the next steps for European economic security

The EU needs a balanced strategy to cut reliance on the US and China while improving its capacity to counter coercive economic threats

A first step in coalition building to reform the global trading system

Two of the world’s major trading blocs have signalled their willingness to work to repair a system undermined by the US and China

The case for delaying the application of the EU’s carbon border levy to electricity

The inclusion of electricity in CBAM creates more problems than it solves; ways should be found to exempt it

US Foreign Military Sales

This dataset offers detailed information on FMS notifications of transfers of military equipment from the US to foreign governments.

Understanding US foreign military sales globally since 2008: an analysis of a new dataset

The paper presents a new dataset of all US Foreign Military Sales since 2008 and analyses global trends in volumes and equipment types

The Trump–Xi summit: less a deal, more an uneasy truce

The meeting of the US and Chinese presidents in South Korea resulted in a pragmatic but precarious agreement

Tariffs, deals and multilateral ideals: can the World Trade Organization survive?

The Trump administration’s trade policy accelerates the WTO’s decline and challenges global trade governance

How can Europe stress test its reliance on US military exports?