World Economic Forum White Paper January 2026

Dear Reader, Wealthy nations have locked in their green industrial policies and are now pulling up the ladder. G7 countries have sharply reduced new climate-motivated trade and industrial policy measu...

IMF Working Paper 2025/222

Industrial policy has delivered impressive technological gains without productivity growth

This Roundup summarises 575 new trade and industrial policy interventions documented by the GTA team during September 2025. The report provides geographic analysis focusing on the United States, China...

Latest Update: 28 August 2025, 16:00 CET

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A visual guide to the U.S. tariff-related deals

ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #70

A sharp rise in new tariffs and the share of world trade covered by them between October 2024 and May 2025 have contributed to a volatile and unpredictable global trade landscape, the WTO Secretariat’...

ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #66

Industrial policies (IPs) are on the rise. The most common motive for pursuing IPs is to boost strategic competitiveness of the targeted products. Leveraging a novel database of industrial policies an...

Last Update: 15 May 2025, 1:30 pm CET

This Thread tracks trade deals and agreements signed with the United States following the introduction of "reciprocal tariffs" in April 2025. Only agreements that have been officially announced or con...

ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #64

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The United States has initiated a series of Section 232 investigations in 2025, marking the most active period for this national security-related legal mechanism in history. These investigations, auth...

The White House is negotiating with trading partners while US-China commerce seizes up. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Professor Simon Evenett of IMD Business School explains how the tense discussions might play out, and where they will leave the global trade system.

This Roundup summarises 471 new trade and industrial policy interventions documented by the Global Trade Alert team over the past four weeks. The report provides geographic analysis focusing on the Un...

The White House is negotiating with trading partners while US-China commerce seizes up. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Professor Simon Evenett of IMD Business School explains how the tense discussions might play out, and where they will leave the global trade system.

ZEITGEIST SERIES BRIEFING #63