Although the export restrictions at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic were challenging for companies, Renate Becker-Arnold, chairwoman of the BDI Working Group on Export Controls, praises the pra ...
As the cards seem to be reshuffled, we can not afford passivity. In the midst of increasingly elemental crises, we are called upon to defend the liberal world order. This year’s Munich Security Confer ...
China is increasingly playing the role of defender of free world trade, albeit without having distinguished itself as a driving force for a liberal global trade regime. The confrontation between the U ...
“I want to say to you, America is back. Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back”. With these words the U.S. diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield wishes to bring the United States back to the internatio ...
Almost no other country in the world has such a strong influence on the multilateral trading system as the United States. But with his “America First” policy, U.S. President Donald Trump increasingly ...
In the trade dispute between the United States and China, the omens of rapprochement before the pandemic were good. Both countries agreed on a “Phase One Deal”: China committed itself to more imports ...
With the arrival of Joe Biden in the White House, many people are hoping for a restart of transatlantic relations. Biden is a transatlanticist and values the European Union (EU) as an important partne ...
German industry has high hopes for Joe Biden’s presidency. Wolfgang Niedermark, member of BDI’s Executive Board, discusses Biden’s economic and trade policy agenda and explains what the business commu ...
The United States is one of the founding fathers and architects of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva but also one of the most notorious critics of the multilateral trade system. It is large ...
The United States and the EU have each imposed retaliatory tariffs on one another because of an ongoing dispute over subsidies for the aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing. Although these tariffs ...
