Latest content: Trade and economy

The potential for trade-led sustainable development in most Forum Island Countries (FICs) in the Pacific remains largely untapped. These countries experience several challenges to trade, such as a lack of economies of scale, low levels of foreign direct investment (FDI), inadequate and under developed infrastructure, high costs of doing business and a host of other supply-side contraints. Recent changes in the global economic and trading landscape, including growing trade tensions and protectionism, growth in mega regional trade arrangements, and the rapid advancement in technology have created an additional layer of challenges, producing further impediments for these countries to trade.

This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics examines the structure and orientation of Commonwealth countries’ CBAM-related exports to the EU to determine their level of exposure to this potential carbon pricing mechanism.

This paper maps patterns of maritime trade in the Commonwealth with a view to exploring the effects of the pandemic and policy implications for post-COVID recovery and resilience-building in Commonwealth countries.

This issue of the Commonwealth’s Trade Hot Topics takes stock of Caribbean-EU relations to date with the intent of assessing what recent developments signal for their economic relations in the future.

Aid for Trade (AfT), first launched in 2005, has come a long way over the last fifteen years and has undeniably made an important contribution to overcoming the many constraints holding developing countries back from greater participation in international trade, and thus from reaping many of its benefits.

This issue of Trade Hot Topics examines the broader threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to the food security of developing countries, including most Commonwealth small states, LDCs and SSA countries.

The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has initiated economic and social disruptions at an unprecedented scale.

Commonwealth countries’ trade and investment have been affected significantly by COVID-19.

This paper employs the gravity model of international trade to examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on global and intra-Commonwealth trade flows.

This paper evaluates the historical evolution of the DR discussions and explores relevant considerations for Commonwealth small states.

The worsening of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in March 2020 triggered a sudden shift from in-person to virtual and hybrid forms of diplomatic communication and negotiation, including at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Post-Brexit trade deals between the United Kingdom and the USA, Japan, European Union, Australia, New Zealand and Canada include the elimination of various tariffs.

This paper assesses infrastructure using various parameters including access, affordability and performance.

In most Commonwealth member countries, services account for at least half of total economic activity in terms of gross domestic product.

This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted merchandise trade between and with Commonwealth countries.