The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies marks a historic breakthrough for marine environmental protection and multilateral cooperation, offering significant benefits to Pacific Island nations dependent on tuna fisheries.
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Lowy: RCEP’s Moment to Matter
The 2027 RCEP General Review represents a critical opportunity to transform the world’s largest trading bloc into a meaningful anchor against geoeconomic fragmentation in the Asia-Pacific.
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PIIE: Project Vault needs work
Project Vault’s hybrid public-private design for stockpiling critical minerals raises serious concerns about voluntary participation, operational complexity, and the risk that the programme will fail precisely when it is most needed.
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ISEAS: Malaysia’s geoeconomic alignment under Anwar
Malaysia’s claim to neutrality in the US–China rivalry is undermined by sector-level structural alignment, particularly in semiconductors, which constrains the country’s real policy freedom even when aggregate trade and investment figures appear balanced.
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Mapping JBS’s Luxembourg Holding Structure: Section 301 Exposure Assessment
A walk through the intermediate holding layers that determine where tariff and trade-remedy exposure actually lands in a multinational meat group.
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Reading the EU’s RED III Transposition: Member State Variance in Annex IX Treatment
National transposition choices are producing a fragmented compliance map, with the treatment of advanced feedstocks the sharpest point of divergence.
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Why the IPEF Supply Chain Pillar Underdelivered: A Two-Year Retrospective
The crisis-response architecture is real, but the absence of market access kept the supply chain pillar from reshaping commercial decisions.
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Cato: Section 122 is Trump’s illegal stopgap
The Trump administration’s invocation of Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose a 10 percent global tariff is legally and economically flawed, because a goods trade deficit does not constitute a balance-of-payments deficit as the statute intended.
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Carbon Border Adjustment and the Quiet Reshaping of Aluminium Trade Flows
Even in its reporting-only phase, the EU carbon border mechanism is already redirecting which tonnes go where ahead of the definitive regime.
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Cato: Jones Act data reveals universe of blocked trade
Voyage-level data from the Trump administration’s Jones Act waiver demonstrates that the 1920 law has been suppressing intra-US trade by preventing domestic cargo movements that the market clearly wanted to make.