BAB & AIG Global Trade Panel Discussion - Global Trade Outlook: Time to Redefine Free Trade?

Monday, July 8th

BAB’s annual Global Trade Outlook In partnership with the AIG Global Trade Series, we will examine the topic in the context of both the US and UK. 

Trade as a percentage of global GDP is continuing to rise, but conventional trade patterns are changing. Driven by security challenges and domestic interests, trade policy increasingly becomes an extension of domestically focused industrial policy, exemplified by President’s Biden worker-centric trade policy, but also former President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose a general 10% tariffs on imports. Questions arise now on if and how economic leadership and trade need to be re-imagined.

Date: Monday, July 8th
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 PM EDT 

             4:00 pm – 5:00pm BST
Location: Zoom 

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As both countries face elections. BAB’s panel of prominent experts from both sides of the Atlantic will discuss the scenarios for trade and economic policy post-election, including;

  • Whether trade deals still worth pursuing?
  • Are new forms of economic cooperation such as the Atlantic Declaration signed in 2023 the future?
  • What are the chances for a US-UK FTA?
  • Do we have to re-define the concept of free trade all together?

Speakers

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Matthew P. Goodman

Fellow & Director of the Greenberg Centre of Geoeconomic Studies

Council Foreign Relations

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Jennifer Hillman

Professor of Practice

Georgetown University Law Centre

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Peter Harrell

Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Emily Lydgate University of Sussex

Emily Lydgate

Professor of Environmental Law, Co-Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory and Deputy Director of the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy

University of Sussex

Moderator

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Rem Korteweg

Senior Research Fellow/ Head of Strategic Initiatives

Clingendael Institute

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