WTO Members Elect New Goods Council Chair, Discuss US Reciprocal Tariffs

Thoughts from the Past Two Weeks

The limits of U.S.-China decoupling, the principled case for an American industrial renaissance, and the scope for (desirability of?) capital flight from the U.S.

Trump's tariffs strain international relations

Reading Time: 4 minutes  I messed up. Trump’s tariffs strain diplomacy In my last column two weeks ago (or was that a lifetime ago?), I was quite certain that Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” were a good things because countries, like India, that charged high tariffs on products from the US and other countries would quickly drop their rates.  Trump and America would have an easy win and I, as a US citizen of Indian origin, would be happy for both si…

WTO Members Elect New Goods Council Chair, Discuss US Reciprocal Tariffs

World Trade Organization members elected Argentina's Gustavo Nerio Lunazzi the new chair of the Council for Trade in Goods, the WTO announced. At the April 9-10 meeting of the council, WTO members also discussed over 30...

When US President Donald Trump announced a 90-day reprieve from "reciprocal" tariffs, the world breathed a sigh of relief for only a short time. And rightly so. The decision brought one piece of good news against a whole bunch of bad. The good news is that even the White House must listen to signals from the markets, even though a few days earlier it claimed that it...

China Initiates WTO Dispute regarding US ‘Reciprocal Tariffs’

On 08 April 2025, the World Trade Organization (WTO) advised that the People’s Republic of China (China) had requested dispute consultations with the United States of America (US) concerning the measures which it says imposed a 10% additional duty on imports from all trading partners effective 05 April, and a 34% additional duty on imports from China that were due to become