Trade & Tariffs

Here’s How to Keep TTIP Alive

By Marie Kasperek

After fifteen rounds of negotiations with the United States on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) since 2013, European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said that the free-trade deal is likely to be “in the freezer” until the new US administration has figured out its position on transatlantic trade. US President Donald Trump’s […]

TRADE in ACTION – February 16, 2017

By Global Business & Economics Program

This week, TRADEinACTION.. is about relations with Canada on both sides of the Atlantic: The European Parliament approved the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on Wednesday after 7 years of negotiations with Canada, while Canadian PM Trudeau visits the White House; Steven Mnuchin gets confirmed as Treasury Secretary, Linda McMahon confirmed to head White House’s Small Business Administration, while […]

TRADE in ACTION – February 9, 2017

By Global Business & Economics Program

This week in TRADEinACTION: IMF’s Christine Lagarde visits Atlantic Council, President Trump to meet with Japan’s PM Abe in Washington, DC on February 10, with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on February 13, and the IMF releases its country report on Greece.

TRADE in ACTION – February 2, 2017

By Global Business & Economics Program

This week in TRADEinACTION: President Trump roils relations with Mexico, British PM Theresa May announced she will trigger Brexit negotiations on March 9, IMF’s Christine Lagarde visits the Atlantic Council on February 8, and Japan’s PM Abe to meet with President Trump in Washington, DC on February 10.

European Growth and the Next Chapter in US-EU Relations

On January 26, the Atlantic Council’s EuroGrowth Initiative hosted a public panel discussion on the future of US-EU relations at the start of the Trump Administration. Ms. Ana Palacio (former Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain), Amb. C. Boyden Gray (former US Ambassador to the EU), Dr. Georgios Alogoskoufis (former Finance Minister of Greece), and Dr. […]

TRADE in ACTION – January 26, 2017

By Global Business & Economics Program

This week in TRADEinACTION: President Trump abandons TPP and announces to renegotiate NAFTA, British  Supreme Court says Parliament must give Article 50 go-ahead, European Parliament’s trade committee endorses CETA, , and UK’s Theresa May to visit DC on Friday.

The United States Quits TPP: A Gift for China

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald Trump’s decision to take the United States out of a free-trade agreement with eleven other Pacific Rim nations is a “gift” for China because it undermines a deal through which the United States had sought to write the rules of the road for global trade, according to two Atlantic Council analysts. “Donald […]