Trade Winds

Trade Winds is a monthly virtual event series hosted by Cecilia Malmström that explores the future of global commerce in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, including ways that international cooperation on trade can accelerate the recovery. Features episodes with special guest host Anabel González.

Recent Content

Past Event

Will the WTO survive amid Russia's war and other stresses on global trade?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Mia Mikic (ARTNeT; University of Waikato) and Alan Wm. Wolff (PIIE)

June 15, 2022
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Next steps for US-EU trade and tech cooperation

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Sabine Weyand (European Commission) and Peter Harrell (White House National Security Council)

May 18, 2022
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Sanctions, Russia's war, and the future of trade

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Mary E. Lovely (PIIE) and Denis Redonnet (European Commission)

April 20, 2022
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Can we design a carbon tax that doesn’t create trade conflicts?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Karin Karlsbro (European Parliament) and Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

March 16, 2022
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How can we best adjust to increasing digital trade?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Alison Hamilton (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Henrik Hvid Jensen (DXC Technology) and Hanna Norberg (Trade Economista, TradeExperettes, Trade Policy Research Forum)

February 16, 2022
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Subsidies are on the rise. Are they a necessary evil?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Chad P. Bown (PIIE), Simon Evenett (University of St. Gallen), Ignacio Garcia Bercero (Directorate-General for Trade in the European Commission) and Julia Ya Qin (Wayne State University)

January 19, 2022
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Delayed WTO ministerial could give negotiators much needed time

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Uri Dadush (Bruegel; Policy Center for the New South) and Anabel González (WTO; PIIE [on leave for public service])

December 15, 2021
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What happened at COP26 and how can trade help save the climate?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Carolyn Fischer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Ottawa) and Jennifer A. Haverkamp (Michigan Law; University of Michigan Graham Sustainability Institute)

November 17, 2021
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What’s happening with the Belt and Road Initiative?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Jennifer A. Hillman (Council on Foreign Relations; Georgetown University) and Bruno Maçães (Hudson Institute; Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies)

October 20, 2021
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The future of global shipping

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Simon Bergulf (A.P. Moller-Maersk) and Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon)

September 15, 2021