Minilateralism by Chris Brummer – a book on finance, trade and monetary diplomacy
Chris Brummer shares How Trade Alliances, Soft Law and Financial Engineering are Redefining Economic Statecraft
Professor of Law : Georgetown University, and Director, Institute of International Economic Law
Prime Minister Theresa May reportedly opposes a second Brexit referendum on Monday, arguing that such a vote would “break faith” with British people and do “irreparable damage” to politics. The story is here.
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This is the first time in more than two decades that the 21 members of APEC have failed to reach an agreement at the end of their meetings. The story is here.
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When Justin Trudeau’s government agreed to a revised North American free trade deal, the Americans said Canada also agreed to something else: joining Donald Trump’s trade war on China. The story is here.
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While the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) is similar to its NAFTA predecessor in many ways, some experts are cheering the removal of a section little-known to the Canadian public — Chapter 11, Section B., or the Investors-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism. The story is here.
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The speakers roster for Fintech Week is available now! From Amazon to Zcash, and from the Comptroller of the Currency to the Co-Director of Colombia’s central bank, experts will come to Washington November 5-8 to discuss the future of fintech regulatory policy.
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Mexican Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo declared that the negotiating teams for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are ready to kick off talks again after they stalled last month. The full story is here.
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Chief negotiators from the 11 signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreed this week to start accession talks with potential newcomers in 2019, when the free trade pact takes effect. Thailand, Indonesia, Columbia, South Korea and Taiwan are reportedly seen as willing to join the revised accord, which was signed in March and is now formally known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. The story is here.
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European member states have given the go-ahead for a free trade deal with Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, news outlets report. Among other things, the new accord will create the world’s largest open economic area, removing EU tariffs of 10 percent tariffs on Japanese cars and the 3 percent rate typically applied to car parts. Meanwhile, Japan has reportedly committed to remove duties of some 30 percent on EU cheese and 15 percent on wines as well as allowing it to increase its beef and pork exports and gain access to large public tenders in Japan.
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The Journal of International Economic Law’s latest edition is out–offering papers presented at an academic conference on the sidelines of the WTO’s 11th Ministerial Conference, which was held in Buenos Aires in December 2017. Substantively, the Special Issue is clustered around two themes: first, a substantive theme focused on e-commerce and the digital economy and how trade rules could or should adapt to them; secondly, a process-based theme addressing how trade rules could be better improved and updated. For more, see here.
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Listen here to the Financial Times’s new podcast. As Professor Brummer also notes on twitter, the bludgeoning of the G7 will invariably bolster the status of the G20 as the primary forum for global policymaking where–notably–Russia is already a member (and China).
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