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Guest Post: A Reply to Aaron Cosbey’s Comment on our CBAM Post, from Reinhard Quick, Saarland University and Isha Das, University of Passau.

This is a guest post from Reinhard Quick, Saarland University and Isha Das, University of Passau. We would like to thank Aaron Cosbey for his thoughtful comments on our guest post and would like to reply by offering the following comments: 1. Prevention of Carbon Leakage The imposition of CBAMs

Guest Post: American ‘green’ protectionism, industrial decarbonsiation, and transatlantic steel and aluminium negotiations – a response to Todd N. Tucker and Timothy Meyer

This is a guest post by David Kleimann (PhD) - a visiting fellow at the Brussels based Bruegel think tank. He wishes to thank Todd N. Tucker and Timothy Meyer for productive debates in past and future. In July of this year, I published a Bruegel working paper titled ‘Section

Pence and Ramaswamy on Trade

I've got two more entries in my GOP presidential candidate trade policy monitoring exercise: Former Vice-President Mike Pence; and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has no political background but seems to be polling well enough to get into the upcoming Republican primary debate. What are the chances that either

Guest Post: Europe’s Attempt To Get Back in Pole Position in the Electric-Vehicle Subsidy Race

This is a guest post from trade lawyers Victor Crochet & Elyse Kneller The transition to electric vehicles (“EVs”) is at the centre of recent international economic tensions. European manufacturers have long been market leaders in the automotive industry. However, the shift away from combustion engine vehicles may be throwing

Reducing Carbon Emissions from Steel and Aluminum: A Follow-Up Rebuttal

Thanks to Tim Meyer and Ben Heath for responding to my "The Effectiveness of the GASSA in Reducing Carbon Emissions" post, in which I argued that trade remedies could undermine their argument for tariffs designed to encourage decarbonization of the steel and aluminum sectors. Let me first say

Guest Post: EU’s CBAM vs. the Paris Agreement: A response to Quick and Das

This is a guest post from Aaron Cosbey of IISD I am an unlikely defender of the EU’s CBAM, knowing full well its weaknesses and limitations. But in my opinion those faults do not include any of the arguments mustered against it by Reinhard Quick and Isha Das in

DeSantis on Trade Policy: More China Comments

As part of a speech yesterday called "A Declaration of Economic Independence," Ron DeSantis had the following comments on China trade issues: So the elites in this country have failed. Time and again, they've imposed policies that have proven short sighted and have proven counterproductive. And

Guest Post: Trade Remedies and the GASSA

This is a guest post from law professors Timothy Meyer & J. Benton Heath Much of the commentary on the ongoing negotiations over the Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum (GASSA) have focused on legal issues, especially WTO compatibility. In large part, this focus has been driven by the

Questions about IPEF Enforceability

At a Wilson Center event on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) last week, when asked about the enforceability of the IPEF, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the following: There is something to the fact that this is not a trade agreement. It's more flexible. It's responsive

Nikki Haley on China/China Trade

As I cover what the Republican candidates say about trade policy, I keep hoping for some general statements on these issues, but what we mostly see is talk about China trade. Nikki Haley was interviewed recently by a couple CNBC people -- in the transcript below, I didn't