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A week is now a long time in trade policy and for the past week I’ve been tracking the various reactions to the US’s so-called reciprocal tariffs (now…
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A couple of thoughts on the new EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement and how it continues the EU's approach of saying more rather than less on data flow…
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