Tariff Protection by Industry Group: A Transatlantic Comparison
Post, March 19, 2025By Houssein Guimbard
On average, the United States and the European Union (EU) apply relatively low tariffs. How do the levels vary by industry group ?
Trade & Globalization
Post, March 19, 2025By Houssein Guimbard
China: An Ever-Growing Dominance in Global Trade
Post, March 12, 2025By Gianluca Santoni, Vincent Vicard
China dominates global trade with 730 products for which it accounts for more than half of global exports in 2023, far more than the EU, the United States, and Japan.
China, the leading importer of minerals for lithium-ion batteries
Post, February 26, 2025By Romain Capliez, Carl Grekou, Emmanuelle Hache, Valérie Mignon
China, in addition to being one of the leading producers of minerals used in electric vehicle batteries, has also become the largest importer, thanks to its massive investments worldwide.
How Trump tariffs (2.0) will reshape the car industry
Post, February 12, 2025By Thierry Mayer, Vincent Vicard, Pauline Wibaux
The automotive sector plays a central role in Donald Trump's declarations on trade deficits and his threats of protectionist measures against the European Union (EU) as well as Canada and Mexico. With a $270 billion motor vehicle trade deficit in 2023, cars are one of the major items, nearly a quarter of the total, in the US trade deficit after consumer goods.
The very dynamic trade in healthcare products
Post, February 12, 2025By Pierre Cotterlaz, Guillaume Gaulier, Aude Sztulman, Deniz Ünal
The boom in international trade in healthcare products does not date back to the Covid-19 pandemic but to the great multilateral trade opening of the 2000s. Will the protectionist tensions that have been building since 2022 slow this growth?
Import dependencies: The EU & partners
Post, January 30, 2025By Kevin Lefebvre, Pauline Wibaux
The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have highlighted the challenges associated with import dependency.
Trump and the general rebalancing of international trade
Post, January 15, 2025By Antoine Bouët, Leysa Maty Sall, Yu Zheng
The tariff increases announced by Donald Trump before his election would have a serious impact on global trade flows.
The 2023 CEPII's Programme of work: focus on shocks and deep transformations of global economy
Post, February 22, 2023By Antoine Bouët, Christophe Destais, Lionel Fontagné, Thomas Grjebine, Vincent Vicard
This year, the major topics of the CEPII's work programme emerge from the current gloomy context: the energy transition, the resilience of value chains, impacts of geopolitical tensions, the macroeconomic situation marked by new budgetary priorities and the tightening of monetary policies.
Trade datasets are not the right starting point to discuss trade in natural gas
Facts & Figures, April 4, 2022By Cecilia Bellora, Pierre Cotterlaz, Malte Thie
The Ukrainian conflict has brought to the forefront the issue of Europe's dependence on hydrocarbon imports. Trade data are the usual source to construct a measure of interdependence between states. In the case of natural gas, however, they do not provide a reliable picture of actual flows.
La crise devrait recomposer les spécialisations économiques dans le monde
Post, June 16, 2021 - In the pressBy Deniz Ünal
L’industrie en Asie pourrait souffrir des élans protectionnistes et la percée énergétique américaine buter sur le mur climatique. À l’Europe de jouer de ses atouts dans le secondaire et le tertiaire.
