What has happened to supply-chains?
By Stefano Riela As Covid-19 cases decline, capacity constraints and shortages should ease, spending on travel and entertainment should pick up, slowing demand for goods and taking some of the pressure off supply chains and delivery times. In recent months it has been...
Why does the EU want to tax non-green imports?
By Stefano Riela The Commission is expected to unveil its proposal in a few weeks’ time, but some exporting countries of carbon-intensive products have already expressed their disappointment at a new form of European protectionism. In hands off sovereignty, each...
What can we learn from the 2008 New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement?
By Murat Üngör and Samuel Verevis New Zealand was the first developed country to commence FTA negotiations with China. In November 2004, New Zealand and China launched FTA negotiations and in April 2008, New Zealand became the first OECD country to successfully...
Are New Zealand and China fair-weather friends?
By Jonas Fleming Over the last three years, New Zealand-China relations have encountered new challenges, as Jonas Fleming explains. Over the last three years, New Zealand-China relations have encountered new challenges. New Zealand’s decision to block Spark’s 5G...
Will Covid-19 change access to essential goods?
By Stefano Riela Stefano Riela looks at whether Covid-19 will change access to essential goods globally. For years, globalisation made it possible to geographically distribute economic activities. In ‘normal’ times, when the fluidity of trade is...
Why are major tech companies being sued for their role in the cobalt trade?
By Ben Goldson Some of the world’s most powerful companies are being sued on behalf of child labourers either maimed or killed while mining for cobalt, bringing attention to the methods by which the valuable mineral is extracted for global consumption. In a historic...
What are the implications of the US-China trade war? 🔊
In 2018, the United States and China have been embroiled in a trade war, with each country continuing to raise tariffs placed on goods traded between the two nations. But what exactly are Donald Trump’s tariff policies, and what will be their effects? Doug...
How is ‘new NAFTA’ different? A trade expert explains
By Amanda M. Countryman Amanda M. Countryman explains how the “new” NAFTA is different from the old one. On Sept. 30, the U.S., Canada and Mexico reached a deal to scrap NAFTA and replace it with a new trade accord, narrowly meeting a self-imposed deadline...
Is China worsening the developing world’s environmental crisis?
By Jonas Gamso Is China worsening the developing world’s environmental crisis? Jonas Gamso explores. The developing world is in the midst of an environmental crisis. Simply breathing the air is a leading cause of death. One recent study found that pollution is...Subscribe by Email
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