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  • Working Paper 13 November 2025

    The economic consequences of democratic backsliding: Evidence from US states

    By Mario Larch, Vanessa Boese-Schlosser, Markus Eberhardt and Rodolphe Desbordes et al.

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    This paper provides evidence on the economic consequences of sub-national democratic backsliding in the US.

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  • Video 5 November 2025

    Trump’s Trade Announcements: A Closer Look

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    President Trump’s second term with the imposition of US tariffs on goods has disrupted global trading system. Find out what’s behind these new tariffs, deals, and quotas.

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  • Blog post 5 November 2025

    The European Union’s new steel tariff quota system: What it means for Northern Ireland

    By Billy Melo Araujo.

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    This blog explores how the EU’s proposed tariff quota system might affect Northern Ireland’s ability to import steel from Great Britain.

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  • Video 24 October 2025

    Diploma in International Trade Policy: Industry expert

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    Chris Southworth, Secretary General at the ICC explains the increasingly complex nature of international trade and trade policy. Our new online 'Diploma in International Trade Policy' aims to help you understand how government policy, geopolitics, business, and technology impact international trade and learn how to apply conceptual and analytical tools to analyse trade policy. The course is created and delivered by leading academics at the University of Sussex, along with guest lectures from industry experts like Chris Southworth.

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  • Podcast 15 October 2025

    Public attitudes to trade and trade policy

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    Series 7, Episode 3 - What does the British public think about trade? In a democracy, what people think or feel about any area of policy really matters. Trade policy is an external wing of economic policy, and everyone cares about whether the government's actions are making them richer or poorer, but we also care about how trade is interlinked with climate change, the environment, food standards, or animal welfare. In this episode, our speakers provide insights and analysis on what the public thinks about trade, how we know what the public thinks and whether their views are listened to. With Alan Winters (CITP), George Holt (Trade Justice Movement), Liam Campling (Queen Mary University London) and our host Chris Horseman (Borderlex).

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  • Briefing Paper 2 October 2025

    National security and intellectual property protection of critical technologies

    By Phoebe Li and Atilla Kasap et al.

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    This Briefing Paper maps the evolving IP ecosystem from the expansion of national security claims and innovation in critical technologies, and makes recommendations for how to improve the balance of concerns between IP protection and national security.

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  • Academic Paper 29 September 2025

    ‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’ Citizen jurors’ discursive framing of trust in international trade policy

    By Justyna A. Robinson, L. Alan Winters CB, Rhys Sandow, Sandra Young and Caitlin Hogan et al.

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    One key consequence of the UK leaving the EU (Brexit) is that it now has full responsibility for making its own international trade policy. In this context, NatCen and the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy initiated Citizens’ Juries on the topic of trade policy. From the transcripts of these juries, we created a corpus of 317,974 words. Using corpus-assisted discourse analysis, we focus on the concept of trust in trade policy. We find that trust conferred on actors in trade policy is limited. The greatest degree of trust is conferred on experts, on account of their epistemically-elevated position. The government is broadly not trusted. Jurors wished to be consulted about trade policy decisions and be assured that they are based on sound advice, but few wished to have a role in actually making them. Our findings highlight a deficit of trust among the jurors that could be remedied by greater perceived honesty and transparency from the government.

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  • Blog post 29 September 2025

    Can the WTO turn process into progress?

    By Professor Rorden Wilkinson.

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    Confidence in multilateralism has eroded. What does this mean for the WTO and will the Ølberg reform process be successful?

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  • Podcast 24 September 2025

    The Multilateral Trading System under threat: actions and reactions

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    Series 7, Episode 2 - In this special extended episode, recorded in front of a live audience at the World Trade Organization Public Forum, we consider the present state of the multilateral trading system and the role of the WTO. The majority of international trade, around 72%, is being conducting on WTO terms. But pretty much every nation has had to face the consequences of a unilateral withdrawal from Most Favoured Nation principals by the world’s biggest economy: the US. This challenge from Washington is only the latest in a string of issues to confront the WTO, which has only ratified two multilateral agreements in 30 years, and hasn’t had a functioning Appellate Body to underpin the enforcement of multilateral trade rules for the last six years. How should WTO members respond? Should the rules be upheld, or do they need changing? To discuss these questions and those from our live audience are H.E Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota (WTO), Kelly Ann Shaw (AKIN), Mona Paulsen (London School of Economics) and our host Chris Horseman (Borderlex).

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  • Podcast 17 September 2025

    Making international trade work properly: conformity assessment

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    Series 7, Episode 1 - This podcast discusses conformity assessment because it is important that manufacturers of industrial goods comply with international standards, and that compliance is verified. Even more important, mutual recognition of conformity assessment comes into play for exports and can facilitate trade and cut costs. The UK currently has mutual recognition agreements with a number of countries, but not with the UK's biggest export market - the EU - even though the UK was a full participant in the EU conformity Assessment Regime up until Brexit. What are the prospects for a UK-EU agreement on conformity assessment? What are the barriers to this and how much does this impact EU-UK trade? Sharing their perspectives are Richard Collin (UKAS), Peter Holmes (UKTPO, University of Sussex), Jacques Pelkmans (CEPS), Fergus McReynolds (Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade) and our host Chris Horseman (Borderlex).

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