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Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Trump’s Trade War Timeline: An Up-to-Date Guide

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Melina Kolb (PIIE)
December 18, 2020
How Trade Helps Each Side
Short Videos

How Trade Helps Each Side

Featuring Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE), Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu (PIIE) and Junie Joseph (PIIE)
December 18, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump poses as he signs a presidential proclamation placing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports while surrounded by workers from the steel and aluminum industries at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 8, 2018.
REUTERS/Leah Millis
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Measuring Trump's 2018 Trade Protection: Five Takeaways

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang (PIIE)
February 15, 2019
Short Videos

Why International Trade and Investment Are Good for the US Economy: A Story in Eight Charts

Featuring Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs (PIIE)
March 20, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru November 19, 2016.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Op-Eds

The Truth about Trade Agreements—and Why We Need Them

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
November 21, 2016

Recent Content

Trade Talks

Episode 142: Can Biden Make Trade Boring Again?

Featuring Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
November 11, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Memo to the Biden administration on improving US performance in services trade

J. Bradford Jensen (PIIE)

November 10, 2020
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Memo to the Biden administration on promoting trade to maximize American prosperity and inclusion

Mary E. Lovely (PIIE)

November 9, 2020
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Memo to Congress on reforming international economic relations through foreign policy

C. Fred Bergsten (PIIE)

November 9, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Trump's phase one trade deal with China and the US election

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

October 27, 2020
Past Event

Rebuilding the Global Economy: Role of the US Commerce Department and USTR

Evan G. Greenberg (Chubb Limited/Chubb Group), Chad P. Bown (PIIE), Martin Chorzempa (PIIE) and Mary E. Lovely (PIIE)

October 22, 2020
Past Event

In light of COVID-19, should supply chains be reconfigured?

Anabel González (PIIE), Simon Evenett (University of St. Gallen) and Mary E. Lovely (PIIE)

October 21, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Memo to the Biden administration on how to rethink industrial policy

Douglas A. Irwin (PIIE)

October 20, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Memo to Congress on how to reclaim oversight of US trade policy

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)
October 20, 2020
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Memo to the Biden administration on how the State Department can build cooperation on trade, climate, and health

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)
October 20, 2020