22.01.2019

GLOBALISATION, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND BARRIERS

At this session we talked about current events around the world particularly surrounding trade tensions that we experience in different areas around the globe. Every day we read about trade wars and tariff wars. In this discussion we aim to analyse and clarify what is really going on.
The moderator: Marco Passalia. Speakers: H.E. Zhanar Aitzhanova, Daniel C. Crosby, Zhenwei He, Don Harkleroad, Dr. Yenkong Hodu, Dr. Jan Hoffmann, Vladimir Kotenev, Dr. Pietro Poretti, Leon Shpilsky.
At this panel we discussed the following:

  • current trade tensions
  • an overview of the current situation from differing points of view including China, Russia, Central Asia and the European Union
  • whether international trade is more or less complicated than historically
  • whether the WTO is still abreast of the ever-changing situation
  • what African countries think about the WTO
  • Bilateral and regional trade initiatives
  • the digitalization of trade
  • how trade and trade governance may look in the future
The moderator: Marco Passalia. Speakers: H.E. Zhanar Aitzhanova, Daniel C. Crosby, Zhenwei He, Don Harkleroad, Dr. Yenkong Hodu, Dr. Jan Hoffmann, Vladimir Kotenev, Dr. Pietro Poretti, Leon Shpilsky.
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