US farmers have suffered from the shift away from free trade agreements and from the volatility caused by the Trump administrations’ tariff-driven trade wars.
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De Minimis Reform: Estimating the Compliance Burden on Low-Value Air Cargo
Tightening the low-value import threshold shifts cost onto express logistics and customs systems long before it changes consumer prices.
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ISEAS Cambodia’s economy after the border conflict
Despite significant trade and labour disruptions caused by the 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict, the economic impact on Cambodia has so far been milder than expected for a small, trade-dependent economy.
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USAsia Centre: EU’s growing engagement in the Indo-Pacific
Europe is rapidly deepening its strategic, economic, and security engagement in the Indo-Pacific despite its geographic distance from the region.
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PIIE: US-China interdependence means both opportunities and obstacles
Growing distrust and strategic rivalry have shifted the US-China relationship from mutually beneficial cooperation to costly conflict, and the two countries need a structured, negotiated approach to manage economic disengagement while still collaborating on shared goals.
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ASPI: Fusing Australia’s Economic Statecraft
Australia must deepen the integration of its existing economic, intelligence, and security tools into a fused national economic statecraft capability rather than creating new instruments or simply coordinating disparate agencies.