On March 13-14, 2003, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade convened an informal meeting of leading observers of international trade and investment to discuss prospects for the Doha Development Agenda. This paper represents a thematic summary of those discussions, which were...

This paper considers the reasons why APEC's potential remains, after its first decade in existence, as yet largely unfulfilled. APEC’s progress is assessed in terms of three periods: 1989 through 1992, when it was primarily in an exploratory mode, probing for direction and ways and means for...

As the global community moves to forge a new climate change agreement, complex questions arise concerning the implications for the international trading system. This was the topic of a meeting in Toronto on October 26 and 27, 2009 that brought together experts from the two communities – trade...

The Trump Administration made a fundamental break with longstanding US trade policy. This break might be explained as expressing Trump’s affinity for traditional American isolationism. In some respects, it might also be described as an expression of strongly held personal views of Trump’s...

Starting with the Trump Administration and continuing under the Biden Administration America’s trade policy can be characterized as one of “destructive isolationism”. It has undermined the multilateral trade system whose creation it had led; pulled America out of the Trans-Pacific...

Today, globalization is under attack with calls for reshoring, nearshoring and friendshoring (aka allyshoring) as well as related calls for decoupling and derisking. The paper distinguishes the various "shorings" conceptually, clarifies their underlying economics in relation to the criteria of...

The literature on the impact of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on foreign direct investment (FDI) has had difficulty establishing a robust effect of BITs on FDI flows. This conclusion extends to FDI chapters in free trade agreements (FTAs), which feature the same substantive content as...

A versão em português deste artigo pode ser encontrada em: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2805049' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2805049.What impact may regulatory convergence, as promoted by the TPP, have on trade costs? To examine this question, the authors pay particular attention to Chapter 25 of...