Key Issues for Reforming the World Trade Organization
This monograph—authored by a subset of GTIPA members—explores the leading challenges facing the WTO and offers a number of policy recommendations for how to address them.
Mon, 09/27/2021
Our studies, projects and policy recommendations identify the risks and opportunities for our economy and our society. Here you'll find an overview of our reports. Download the About GTIPA brochure.
GTIPA members have issued numerous reports and articles to help policymakers address the coronavirus update. View list.
Principles and a Framework of Antitrust for Global Innovation
GTIPA members propose a framework and principles to guide antitrust policy to foster greater levels of global innovation.
Thu, 06/17/2021
A Joint Declaration on the Importance of IPRs to Covid Vaccine Manufacturing Scale-up and Future Pandemic Preparedness
The following declaration sets out why we believe that divisive proposals before the World Trade Organization to override intellectual property rights to promote local vaccine production would do more harm than good. There are better ways to accelerate vaccine manufacturing based on trust and collaboration.
Mon, 05/24/2021
GTIPA Perspectives: The Importance of E-commerce, Digital Trade, and Maintaining the WTO E-commerce Customs Duty Moratorium
This report shows GTIPA members’ perspectives on e-commerce and digital trade in light of negotiations on new rules World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations are deliberating regarding the moratorium on cross-border electronic transmissions customs duties (i.e., duties on digital products).
Mon, 10/26/2020
GTIPA Perspectives: Nations' Trade Policy Priorities for the Year Ahead
This report provides GTIPA members’ perspectives on their nations’ three most-significant trade priorities for the year ahead. This document aims to deliver a succinct snapshot of what to expect in the coming year regarding trade policy priorities for these countries.
Mon, 10/26/2020
GTIPA Perspectives: COVID-19 Impacts on Public Health and the Economy of GTIPA Member Nations
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic that emerged at the start of 2020 has impacted the global economy and public health to an unprecedented extent. This anthology analyzes the economic and public health impact and policy responses of 20 nations and regions.
Mon, 10/26/2020
Global Value Chains After the COVID-19 Crisis
GTIPA members explore how global value chains have played an important role in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and helping sustain global economic growth through the crisis.
Thu, 02/25/2021
A Declaration of Mutual Interest in Trade and Globalization for the Benefit of All Peoples and Nations
A Declaration of Mutual Interest in Trade and Globalization for the Benefit of All Peoples and Nations
Thu, 04/13/2017
Innovative Europe: The Way Forward. Taking Stock and Thinking Ahead.
This blueprint aims to inform European institutions on the state of innovation in three sectors (Digital, Healthcare, and Energy & Mobility).
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Recent Reports
This document aims to show the digital strategies currently implemented by the governments of the countries of the Pacific Alliance, through a study of the context and results of each country, in order to identify best practices in the region
China is making great strides in regulating digitization. Some aspects are similar to European approaches, but Chinese laws on data security and protection go much further. This may result in a threat to European business models.
Ethiopia is an important country in Africa and is at a pivotal moment in its history. It has a long, rich, and proud history, the second largest population in the continent, situated in the politically strategic Horn of Africa. Its future is not only vital for Ethiopian citizens but will have an impact on the development of the whole continent.
During the first half of the 20th Century, the world had witnessed some disruptions including two large-scale wars. International trade suffered most, particularly in the run-up to and as an aftermath of the Great Depression of the early 1930s. There were no multilaterally agreed rules to arrest that decline. After almost a century, are we going to witness a similar scare?
the Fraser Institute’s annual Economic Freedom of the World report 2021, Pakistan scored 5.95 out of 10 in terms of economic freedom and lie in bottom quartile, an illustration that country is not economically free.
In this year’s report, Pakistan ranks 142nd based on 2019 data, the most recent comprehensive data, part of a downward trend since 2016. (Last year, Pakistan ranked 133rd with a score of 6.07.
Expanding the membership of rule of law countries such as the US, India and Taiwan in the CPTPP will be an important counter to an aggressive, totalitarian regime in Beijing, write David Kilgour and David Matas.
Ethiopia is an important country in Africa and is at a pivotal moment in its history. It has a long, rich, and proud history, the second largest population in the continent, situated in the politically strategic Horn of Africa. Its future is not only vital for Ethiopian citizens but will have an impact on the development of the whole continent.
An important intellectual property right that can drive investment into Gulf cooperation council countries.
Indonesia responded to its placement on the 2021 Priority Watch List (PWL) from the United States Trade Representative’s Office (USTR) by announcing its commitment to prevent and tackle widespread piracy and counterfeit.