Digital trade in Asia had been booming even before the COVID-19 pandemic that drove large numbers of firms and consumers online. The region has also been at the forefront of digital trade rule-making. This paper by the Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment describes recent...

Negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) are reaching the end-Game. After more than three years of hard bargaining, the twelve members are down to the most sensitive issues: some agricultural products, textiles, intellectual property, state-owned enterprises, and a dispute...

One of the more innovative aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations has been an emphasis on granting full market access to member countries with ‘no exceptions’. This statement has been made repeatedly from the earliest days of the negotiations in March 2010 and...

Many of the research approaches currently under investigation by behavioral economists are even better suited for international political economy research. The three research ideas illustrated in this article — framing and loss aversion, myopic time horizons, and fairness — highlight...

Negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) are reaching the end-Game. After more than three years of hard bargaining, the twelve members are down to the most sensitive issues: some agricultural products, textiles, intellectual property, state-owned enterprises, and a dispute...

Much has been made of the “spaghetti or noodle bowl” problem of overlapping preferential trade agreements (PTAs). A new PTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), currently under negotiation between eleven states — Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru,...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents the chance to set a trade agenda for the future across a wide range of topics for countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region. This means that the agreement should not be settled in haste. It also means that key decisions need to be reached about...

One of the selling points behind larger preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is the potential to encourage the spread of global value chains (GVCs). These supply chains are increasingly critical to the globalized economy. Large GVC operators may include up to 15,000 firms in their networks...