by Andrea | Nov 3, 2020 | International Trade, Trump on Trade, US-China Trade Relations
As we said in one of our posts, trade sanctions are still operating during the pandemic. In fact, Chinese tech companies have emerged as a new focus of the US sanctions regime. Among the sanctioned companies is ByteDance Ltd., the owner of TikTok, the popular...
by Andrea | Oct 20, 2020 | Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, Trade and Development
The following is an excerpt that was taken from the front page of the October 19th publication of the Latin America Advisor. “The Caribbean is better positioned than any other region in the world to take advantage of the “blue economy,” Valerie Hickey, a...
by Andrea | Sep 14, 2020 | Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, international trade rules, Trump on Trade, US-Caribbean trade
The Caribbean Basin Trade Preferences Act (CBTPA) and the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) programs which give products from developing countries duty-free and other preferential access to the US market expire this year. It is time to renew US trade...
by Andrea | Jan 2, 2020 | Brexit, Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, Recent Trends in Trade, World Trade Organization
US-China trade – will the two economic powerhouses be able to negotiate away the trade tensions and tariffs? They have negotiated a Phase One deal which is scheduled to be signed in January. But we have been here before. The mutual mistrust means that all bets are off...
