This Ain’t Business as Usual: Eight Ways the Pandemic Shook Up the Global Trading System in 2020
Marta Bengoa et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the global economy, and also likely altered the global trading system for good.
Navigating China's New Export Control Law
On December 1, 2020, China’s first Export Control Law took effect. The timing of the new law suggests that it is a response to recent high-profile export restrictions targeting Chinese buyers by the Trump administration (examples here, here and here).
Diversified Supply Chains and Rules of Origin: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
In light of the current COVID-19 crisis, businesses are encouraged to be more resilient to external economic shocks by diversifying or reshoring their supply chains.
Temporary is the New Permanent? Lingering Export Restrictions in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anna Jankowska and Maria V. Sokolova
This raises a question: how temporary are temporary export restrictions and to what extent are these restrictions indicative of a “new normal”?
Trade-restrictive measures and COVID-19: Are WTO Agreements proving to be pandemic proof?
Ariane Yvon
As the COVID-19 outbreak rapidly expanded and continues, government officials around the world have adopted a vast number of restrictions on exports and imports of key products needed to address the pandemic.