The Global Trade Alert publishes brief reports twice a year. Every GTA report focuses on a new and current topic in international commerce. It presents original research on the topic as well as summaries of the latest updates to the GTA database. To facilitate their targeted reading, the GTA reports are divided into a dozen short chapters with 2-4 pages each.
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #53
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #54
Are Chinese exports causing a protectionist backlash? Is it time to switch sourcing to ASEAN?
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #52
Zeitgeist Series Briefing #50
Zeitgeist Series Briefing #51
Why Bilateral Threats, not a Global Tariff, are the Way Forward
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #48
Crossfire: The U.S. Trade Surplus in Services As America Contemplates An Inward Turn
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #49
American Tariff Threats & Foreign Retaliation: No escape from macroeconomic reality
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #47
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #46
How many swallows make a summer? Sectoral evidence of China’s export recovery
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #45
Tariff Scenarios for 2025: Triggers and Fallout for Trade & FDI
2024 Edition
G20 Trade Policy Factbook 2024
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #43
China’s exports are not accelerating—Beware base year effects
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #44
Tracking information on industrial policies since 1 January 2017
New Industrial Policy Observatory 2.0
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #40
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #41
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #42
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #39
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #36
The fading allure of the Chinese behemoth to foreign business
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #37
The backlash against this year’s Chinese export “surge”
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #38
Maybe the future of the Internet of Things isn’t global
How G20 Members Can Foster Better Practices Through Disclosure, Evaluation & Dialogue
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #35
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #34
Looking at Industrial Policy through an Economic Complexity Lens: Implications for firms
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #33
Which Industrial Policies Target High-End Goods? An Economic Complexity-based Approach
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #32
US money talks—but do foreign companies walk?
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #31
Chinese Car Tariffs Won’t Revitalise Turkey’s Auto Sector
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #30
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #29
Redirected Chinese EV Exports: The Chilling Effect of the EU’s Anti-subsidy Investigation
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #28
China's Steel Dominance: Overcapacity & Market Concentration
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #27
Biden's China Tariffs Will Disrupt Global Trade for Green Goods
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #26
Chinese Trade Retaliation Against Battleground US States
World Economic Forum White Paper May 2024
Geopolitical Rivalry and Business: 10 Recommendations for Policy Design
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #25
Scaling Up China's Solar Panel Industry: Surpassing All Expectations
Paper prepared for the World Economic Forum
The Costs Of Geopolitical Rivalry For Business: Ten Lessons For Better Policy Design
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #24
Turkey Halts Israeli Trade: A Briefing
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #23
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #22
Trade Barriers Rise in Response to China’s Export Surge
Zeitgeist Series Briefing #21
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #20
Chinese Q1 2024 Export Data Offers No Smoking Gun for Over-capacity Debate
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #19
The Green Goods Trade War is in Full Swing
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #18
Electric Shock: How China's EV Boom Is Reshaping Global Markets
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #17
Harvesting Change: The Overlooked Role of the Agri-Food Sector in Climate Policies
WTO COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, VOLUME 2
LDCs and the multilateral trading system
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #16
Steel and aluminium imports into the EU and the US: A factual briefing as GSA talks intensify
Journal of International Business Policy (2023)
Geopolitics, conflict, and decoupling: evidence of Western divestment from Russia during 2022
Asian Economic Policy Review
Can the World Trade Organization Act as a Bulwark Against Deglobalization?
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #15
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #14
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #13
2023 Edition
G20 Trade Policy Factbook 2023
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #12
China, Commodities & the Rest of the BRICS
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #11
On trade & industrial policy mix the BRICS group are different
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #9
Are the IRA climate-related tax credits a trillion-dollar problem?
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #10
Notes on India’s July 2023 ban on the exports of certain types of rice
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #8
THE 31ST GLOBAL TRADE ALERT REPORT
The Scramble for Critical Raw Materials: Time to Take Stock?
COMMERCIAL POLICY DATASET SERIES BRIEFING 1
Corporate Subsidy Inventory 2.1
COMMERCIAL POLICY DATASET SERIES BRIEFING #2
Δ Market Access Database 1.0 (ΔMAD v1.0)
Third cBrief with the University of California-San Diego Globalization and Prosperity Lab
Weaponizing Wheat: Moscow’s Menace to Food Security in 2023
The 30th Global Trade Alert Report
Must Do Better: Trade & Industrial Policy and the SDGs
FORTHCOMING IN INTERECONOMICS
What Endgame for the Deglobalisation Narrative?
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #7
Deep Pockets, Revising EU State Aid Rules and The Single Market
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #5
What makes “critical materials” critical?
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #6
What policies have governments adopted to secure critical materials?
ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #4
Will the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act “Hoover up” European Investment?
2022 Edition
G20 Trade Policy Factbook November 2022
Zeitgeist Series Briefing #1
What do the Friends of Friend-shoring Think Its Rationale Is?
Zeitgeist Series Briefing #2
What Policy Initiatives Advance Friend-Shoring?
Zeitgeist Series Briefing #3
A Joint Report of the Digital Policy Alert and Global Trade Alert
Emergent Digital Fragmentation: The Perils of Unilateralism
Correcting Misleading Empirical Evidence and Other Errors About the Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions
A White Paper published by the World Economic Forum
Conflict, Sanctions and the Future of World Trade
Second CBRIEF WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN DIEGO
Isolating the Russian Economy: The overlooked role of international shipping costs
Benchmarking the 2022 NTE report
The state of digital trade barriers and internet fragmentation
Paper prepared for the World Trade Forum 2021 dedicated to analysing 20 years of China's WTO membership
The post-accession treatment of Chinese goods exports by WTO Members
Form, Frequency, Duration & Scale
COVID-era Trade Policy Interventions Affecting Medical Goods
First cBrief with the University of California-San Diego
Making Moscow Pay: How much extra bite will G7 & EU trade sanctions have?
The Case of Ukraine Since the Annexation of Crimea
E-Commerce Moratorium & the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference
SUBSIDIES & MARKET ACCESS: TOWARDS AN INVENTORY OF SUBSIDIES BY CHINA, THE EU & THE USA
The 28th Global Trade Alert Report
Evidence from the G20 members during 2020
Must An Effective Activist State Harm Trading Partners?
THE 27TH GLOBAL TRADE ALERT REPORT
Advancing Sustainable Development With FDI: Why Policy Must Be Reset
Policy Note circulated by The European Money and Finance Forum
What Caused the Resurgence in FDI Screening?
Thought leadership with Airfinty
How Much Vaccine Will Be Produced This Year?
Thought leadership with Airfinty
How Much Surplus Vaccine Will the U.S. Have?
Arguments for an attribute-based approach
Mapping Policies Affecting Digital Trade
Thought leadership with Airfinty
Halting India’s Vaccine Exports: The Fallout
A Chatham House Briefing Paper
A World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
The Covid-19 Vaccine Production Club: Will Value Chains Temper Nationalism?
Published in the World Trade Review
Economic Statecraft: Is There a Sub-National Dimension? Evidence from United States-China Rivalry
Published in the Journal of International Economic Law
The Smoot-Hawley Fixation: Putting the Sino-US Trade War in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
Book chapter
The Trade & Government Procurement Policy Nexus: Before and After The COVID-19 Pandemic
Has the EU Opened Pandora’s Box?
Export Controls on COVID-19 Vaccines
The 26th Global Trade Alert report
Collateral Damage: Cross-Border Fallout from Pandemic Policy Overdrive
Pragmatic Ideas for a New WTO Director-General
ARTICLE IN THE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS POLICY
Chinese whispers: COVID-19, global supply chains in essential goods, and public policy
A Global Trade Alert analysis for the Commonwealth Secretariat
Exports at Risk from Non-Tariff Measures: The Experience of Commonwealth Countries
A Global Trade Alert analysis for the VDMA
Impediments to German Mechanical Engineering Exports
THE ESSENTIAL GOODS INITIATIVE+ (April 2024)
A VoxEU eBook
COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won’t Work
A Trade Bargain to Secure Supplies of Medical Goods
Preparing for a Second Wave of COVID-19
The Trade Policy Dimension
The 25th Global Trade Alert Report
Going It Alone? Trade policy after Three Years of Populism
The 24th Global Trade Alert Report
Jaw Jaw not War War: Prioritising WTO Reform Options
Article in the Journal of International Business Policy
THE 23RD GLOBAL TRADE ALERT REPORT
Brazen Unilateralism: The US-China Tariff War in Perspective
THE 22ND GLOBAL TRADE ALERT REPORT
Going Spare: Steel, Excess Capacity, and Protectionism
The impact of crisis-era trade distortions on exports from the European Union
The 21st Global Trade Alert Report
The 20th Global Trade Alert Report
The 19th Global Trade Alert Report
The 18th Global Trade Alert Report
The Tide Turns? Trade, Protectionism, and Slowing Global Growth
The 17th GTA report
BRICS Trade Strategy: Time for a Rethink
How Foreign Trade Distortions Slowed LDC Export-Led Growth
The 16th Global Trade Alert Report
The 15th Global Trade Alert Report
Beggar-Thy-Poor-Neighbour: Crisis-Era Protectionism and Developing Countries
The 14th Global Trade Alert Report
What Restraint? Five Years of G20 Pledges on Trade
The 13th Global Trade Alert Report
Not Just Victims: Latin America and Crisis-Era Protectionism - The 13th GTA Report
The 12th Global Trade Alert Report
The 11th Global Trade Alert Report
The 10th Global Trade Alert Report
The 9th Global Trade Alert Report
Resolve Falters As Global Prospects Worsen
The 8th Global Trade Alert Report
The 7th Global Trade Alert Report
Managed Exports and the Recovery of World Trade
The 6th Global Trade Alert Report
The 5th Global Trade Alert Report
Africa Resists the Protectionist Temptation
The 4th Global Trade Alert Report
Will Stabilisation Limit Protectionism?
The 3rd Global Trade Alert Report
The Unrelenting Pressure of Protectionism
The 2nd Global Trade Alert Report