Catégorie Trade
« Overall the EU has been too hesitant to counter US Trump-led destabilizing offensives »
Pascal Lamy, president emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute and former WTO head, joins us to answer three blunt questions. In retrospect, would you have done anything differently at the WTO that could have put it in a different position now, with criticisms that it is sliding towards irrelevance? I should have rung George W […]
« The world is still heading to integration »
The former head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said China and the United States should embrace free competition over a tit-for-tat trade war in talks that could have a profound effect on the fate of globalization. Speaking to Caixin during the Paris Peace Forum last week, Pascal Lamy, WTO director-general from 2005 to 2013, […]
Global trade’s bright (green) future
PARIS — Most discussions of trade nowadays inevitably feature the words “war”, “tariff”, or “Trump”. But look beyond the headlines and you will see the foundations of a more collaborative, healthy and sustainable world trade system emerging. The global shipping industry, which carries 90 per cent of all global trade by volume, has started to […]
Trump’s trade strategy is like ‘fishing for trout with a hand grenade’
BNN Bloomberg speaks to Pascal Lamy about the state of global trade in the Trump era. He calls for a reform of the WTO and warns of growing U.S.-China rivalry.
APEC Forum : « What unites us is the belief that open trade is the way to go »
The global market offers the chance to create a new, open trading system for the digital economy as e-commerce emerges across the world – but only if Canada and its partners can master how to make compatible “the three kingdoms” of the digital scene in the coming years. That was the view of former World […]
Conflits commerciaux : contexte géoéconomique et géopolitique
Colloque Interaxions Paris 18 octobre Nous traversons une période de turbulences en matière d’ouverture des échanges internationaux ; remarquez que je ne dis pas en « matière de libre-échange », parce que c’est une expression que j’ai banni de mon vocabulaire il y a trente ans car cette expression ne veut rien dire de concret. […]
