Trade policy

'Reciprocal' tariffs: what's in a word?

Trump's definition does not reflect reciprocity as applied in past multilateral trade negotiations or in equality of tariffs

How should the European Union respond to Trump’s ‘reciprocal tariffs’?

The US threat of reciprocal tariffs is a dangerous attempt to break down the global trade system and must be resisted

Europe’s challenge and opportunity: building coalitions of the willing

The European Union should take the lead in convening alliances of countries to counteract threats to the global order

Europe’s geoeconomic and development objectives clash in Goma

Despite its critical mineral interests, the EU should be strict on Rwanda to maintain credibility and encourage conflict de-escalation

Updated assessment: Memos to the commissioners responsible for EU foreign, enlargement, and partnerships policies

Updated assessment: Memos to the commissioners responsible for the internal market, industrial policy and competition

Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for trade

Not yet Trump-proof: an evaluation of the European Commission’s emerging policy platform

This policy brief evaluates the capacity of the EU’s economic strategy to address structural problems and whether policy needs to change under Trump

EU-Switzerland: a new approach to partial integration into the single market?

The new EU-Swiss agreement breaks new ground, and could offer lessons for the EU-UK relationship

30 Years of the World Trade Organisation: Challenges, reforms, and the path ahead

Does multilateralism have a future?

A trade policy framework for the European Union-United Kingdom reset

A reset in the relationship between the UK and the EU is underway. This paper recommends the main elements of the reset in terms of trade