Global Trade

President Joe Biden signs an executive order related to American manufacturing and American workers.

What do we know about the Biden administration’s emerging trade policy?

David Dollar and Mary E. Lovely

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Continental integration: Uniting a revitalized Africa

Wamkele Mene

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Foresight Africa 2021

Thursday, January 21, 2021

U.S.-Japan relations: Policy challenges for the Biden administration (Part 2: Economics, trade, COVID-19, climate, infrastructure and connectivity)

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM EST

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Flags for the European Union and United States.

Moving from contention to cooperation in the trans-Atlantic relationship

Constanze Stelzenmüller and David Dollar

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Trade in the 21st Century

Edited by Bernard M. Hoekman and Ernesto Zedillo

2021

Men work at a containers terminal in Abidjan April 3, 2008. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (IVORY COAST)

Figure of the week: Momentum in trade going into the AfCFTA era

Chris Heitzig and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.- In the photo, a specialist works in a clinical laboratory amid the pandemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Less affected by covid-19 than the rest of the continents, Africa begins a race for the vaccine. The continent hopes to vaccinate "3% of Africans between now and March 2021 and 20% by the end of next year," declared the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Matshidiso Moeti, in Brazzaville.

Africa in the news: AfCFTA launches, Africa secures COVID-19 vaccines, and Niger and the Central African Republic vote

Chris Heitzig

Saturday, January 9, 2021

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (C) attends a bilateral meeting inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing August 18, 2011. China and the United States "have a responsibility to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and together boost market confidence," Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping told visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, according to Chinese state media. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/ Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)

The Biden administration’s China direction

Ryan Hass and Kaiser Kuo

Sinica

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory Nigeria. December 35, 2018: A cross section of Wuse Market Abuja

Figure of the week: Perceptions of the AfCFTA among small enterprises in Nigeria

Payce Madden

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai, China October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

Is America back? The high politics of trade in the Indo-Pacific

Mireya Solís

Monday, January 4, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Container boxes are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China September 24, 2016. Picture taken September 24, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo/File Photo

Trade and National Security Exceptionalism

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

A woman from the Daborin Single Mothers Association gathers rice at a small processing plant in the northern Ghanaian town of Bolgatanga, February 1, 2008. The single mothers began their organisation to gain more freedom and financial independence in a district where most farmers live on the equivalent of about a dollar a day, according to Oxfam, which helps fund the women's programme. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (GHANA)

Mitigating short-term adjustment costs: Preparing for the AfCFTA

Hippolyte Fofack

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

A man sorts oranges inside a truck at the end of a night-long curfew ordered by Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Nairobi, Kenya March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

Making the AfCFTA work for ‘The Africa We Want’

Hippolyte Fofack

Monday, December 28, 2020

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden arrives with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (not pictured) at a China-US Business Dialogue in the Beijing Hotel in Beijing August 19, 2011. China and the United States "have a responsibility to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and together boost market confidence," Xi told visiting Biden on Thursday, according to Chinese state media. REUTERS/How Hwee Young/Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS)

Obama’s past and Biden’s future with China

David Barboza and Jeffrey A. Bader

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Mombasa, Kenya - February 25 2018 : Container vessel under cargo opearations

Africa in the news: Kenya and Nigeria updates

Chris Heitzig and Christina Golubski

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Monday, December 14, 2020

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks as he announces nominees and appointees to serve on his economic policy team at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.

How can Biden fulfill his ‘Build Back Better’ agenda?

Jason Furman and David Dollar

Monday, December 7, 2020

U.S.-Japan relations: Policy challenges for the Biden administration (Part 2: Economics, trade, COVID-19, climate, infrastructure and connectivity)

The future of Asia: Charting a roadmap for US engagement and leadership

The future of global trade: US trade policy in the Joe Biden era and beyond