Catégorie Trade
Transparency International – Can the rules of international trade help fighting corruption?
Just as domestic trade, international trade offers opportunities for corruption, but is also a victim of corruption. Pascal Lamy explains the potential of rules on corruption in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and his idea of a specific WTO anti-corruption agreement.
The Jan Tumlir Lecture – The New World of Trade
BRUSSELS — We are transitioning from an old world of trade to a new world, where trade opening has become a very different game of great consequence for the future. The old world of trade was a world where production systems were national and where obstacles to trade were about protecting domestic producers from foreign […]
Jan Tumlir Lecture – Looking ahead: The New World of Trade
I will argue that we are transitioning from an old world of trade to a new world of trade where trade opening has become a very different game. This transformation has major consequences which will likely – and hopefully – impact the international trading system, be it in terms of principles, policies, and even mandates, […]
Publication – Is trade multilateralism being threatened by regionalism?
Since the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947, the multilateral trading system has ranked as one of the shining successes of international cooperation. Recently, it was shown to have great resilience in containing protectionist pressures during the 2008 global financial and economic crisis. This was in marked contrast to […]
Queries – TTIP: a new initiative that should raise the bar in aligning consumer protection
Europe and the United States have everything to gain from TTIP as the initiative aims to further open up transatlantic trade. Yet there is still a need to reach agreement over that openness means in today’s climate.
World Policy Conference – Debate on Trade and Policy
Commercial affairs, in the broad sense of the term, have always been a central part of international relations and always interfered with security issues. In our day and age, as a result of globalization, economic exchanges have gone largely beyond commercial exchanges (services, capital flows, direct investments, etc.) and form a more and more tightly-meshed […]
