Catégorie Trade

BBC4 Radio – Trade, should the UK see closer economic ties with Trump’s White House or the EU ?

Interview by Pascal Lamy on BBC 4 on Saturday 16 November 2024 Listen to the interview on BBC

Former WTO Chief on Trump Trade Policies

President-elect Donald Trump should see America’s trade deficit as an advantage rather than a weakness because of the power of the US dollar, former World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy told Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle at the 30th anniversary of the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai. (Source: Bloomberg) Link to the video on Bloomberg TV […]

GPA Anniversary event

Cognac/Voitures : vers une guerre commerciale ?

Ce lundi 14 octobre, Pascal Lamy, ancien directeur général de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC), Antoine Bouët, directeur du Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales (CEPII), et Benaouda Abdeddaïm, éditorialiste BFM Business, se sont penchés sur la guerre commerciale entre l’Union européenne qui taxe les véhicules électriques chinois, et la Chine, qui, en réponse décide […]

Ex-WTO chief: ‘No such thing as a trade war between EU and China’

Pascal Lamy, the former Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), has insisted « there have always been trade frictions » between China and the European Union and called on both sides to see the « bigger picture » on the exchange of tariffs. Heavy EU tariffs on Chinese electric cars are set to come into force by the […]

EU cannot remain the only big market open to subsidize Chinese EVs, former WTO director general says

Pascal Lamy, vice president at Paris Peace Forum and former director general at the World Trade Organization, discusses the EU vote on Chinese electric vehicle tariffs.  Link to the full interview