This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the … beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on … a week-by-week basis. The data set reveals a rapid increase in trade policy activism in February and March 2020 in …

countries: the imposition of export restrictions and actions to facilitate imports. Weekly data on the use of trade policy … the use of trade policy instruments and attributes of pre-crisis public procurement regulation. Controlling for country … in the pre-crisis period. Membership in trade agreements encompassing public procurement disciplines is associated with …