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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)
March 13, 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

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Op-Eds

The New Empty Argument Against Trade

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg (PIIE)

May 12, 2020
via Project Syndicate
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Senator Hawley channels Trump in his attack on the World Trade Organization

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)
May 12, 2020
Working Paper

Export controls: America’s other national security threat

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

May 2020
PIIE Chart

China's net PPE exports plummeted in early 2020 but are recovering

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

May 5, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

China should export more medical gear to battle COVID-19

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

May 5, 2020
Op-Eds

COVID-19 Could Bring Down the Trading System

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

April 28, 2020
via Foreign Affairs
PIIE Chart

Globalization is in retreat for the first time since the Second World War

Douglas A. Irwin (PIIE)
April 23, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

COVID-19: How far will global merchandise trade fall?

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu*

April 17, 2020
Short Videos

Containing economic nationalism through global cooperation

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Monica de Bolle (PIIE)

April 15, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

How the G20 can strengthen access to vital medical supplies in the fight against COVID-19

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)

April 15, 2020