Tariff Protection by Industry Group: A Transatlantic Comparison
Post, March 19, 2025By Houssein Guimbard
On average, the United States and the European Union (EU) apply relatively low tariffs. How do the levels vary by industry group ?
Post, March 19, 2025By Houssein Guimbard
China: An Ever-Growing Dominance in Global Trade
Post, March 12, 2025By Gianluca Santoni, Vincent Vicard
China dominates global trade with 730 products for which it accounts for more than half of global exports in 2023, far more than the EU, the United States, and Japan.
China, the leading importer of minerals for lithium-ion batteries
Post, February 26, 2025By Romain Capliez, Carl Grekou, Emmanuelle Hache, Valérie Mignon
China, in addition to being one of the leading producers of minerals used in electric vehicle batteries, has also become the largest importer, thanks to its massive investments worldwide.
The very dynamic trade in healthcare products
Post, February 12, 2025By Pierre Cotterlaz, Guillaume Gaulier, Aude Sztulman, Deniz Ünal
The boom in international trade in healthcare products does not date back to the Covid-19 pandemic but to the great multilateral trade opening of the 2000s. Will the protectionist tensions that have been building since 2022 slow this growth?
How Trump tariffs (2.0) will reshape the car industry
Post, February 12, 2025By Thierry Mayer, Vincent Vicard, Pauline Wibaux
The automotive sector plays a central role in Donald Trump's declarations on trade deficits and his threats of protectionist measures against the European Union (EU) as well as Canada and Mexico. With a $270 billion motor vehicle trade deficit in 2023, cars are one of the major items, nearly a quarter of the total, in the US trade deficit after consumer goods.
Import dependencies: The EU & partners
Post, January 30, 2025By Kevin Lefebvre, Pauline Wibaux
The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have highlighted the challenges associated with import dependency.
Trump and the general rebalancing of international trade
Post, January 15, 2025By Antoine Bouët, Leysa Maty Sall, Yu Zheng
The tariff increases announced by Donald Trump before his election would have a serious impact on global trade flows.
New year, new challenges
Post, January 12, 2024By Antoine Bouët
The CEPII is looking forward to the new year and the developments it will bring that we hope to be positive. The Government, under whose auspices the CEPII has been operating since 1978, has initiated a thorough review of how to enhance the performance and coordination of the French organisations that conduct economic analysis and policy evaluation.
The 2023 CEPII's Programme of work: focus on shocks and deep transformations of global economy
Post, February 22, 2023By Antoine Bouët, Christophe Destais, Lionel Fontagné, Thomas Grjebine, Vincent Vicard
This year, the major topics of the CEPII's work programme emerge from the current gloomy context: the energy transition, the resilience of value chains, impacts of geopolitical tensions, the macroeconomic situation marked by new budgetary priorities and the tightening of monetary policies.
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Trade sanctions against Russia: taking stock after 100 days of war
Post, June 15, 2022By Cecilia Bellora, Kevin Lefebvre, Malte Thie
On 23rd February - the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine - the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted the first package of sanctions in response to Moscow's recognition of the self-proclaimed autonomous republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. Since then, five further packages have followed, the last of which was adopted on 3rd June. From the second package onwards, sanctions affected trade in goods.
Trade datasets are not the right starting point to discuss trade in natural gas
Facts & Figures, April 4, 2022By Cecilia Bellora, Pierre Cotterlaz, Malte Thie
The Ukrainian conflict has brought to the forefront the issue of Europe's dependence on hydrocarbon imports. Trade data are the usual source to construct a measure of interdependence between states. In the case of natural gas, however, they do not provide a reliable picture of actual flows.
La crise devrait recomposer les spécialisations économiques dans le monde
Post, June 16, 2021 - In the pressBy Deniz Ünal
L’industrie en Asie pourrait souffrir des élans protectionnistes et la percée énergétique américaine buter sur le mur climatique. À l’Europe de jouer de ses atouts dans le secondaire et le tertiaire.
Europe after Covid 19: How €750 billion could reboot the EU
Video, July 6, 2020 - In the pressBy Anne-Laure Delatte
00:41:54French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel might well hold the future of Europe in their hands. Or maybe more accurately in their cheque books. Round table with Anne-Laure Delatte, Lorenzo Marsili, Daniel Stelter, and Olaf Wientzek, on France 24 on 30 june 2020.
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Recent drug shortages in Europe overshadow half a century of trade surpluses
Post, June 2, 2020By Pierre Cotterlaz, Guillaume Gaulier, Aude Sztulman, Deniz Ünal
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of the Old continent to drug-supply disruption. Europe nevertheless remains, by far, the leader in the global trade of pharmaceutical products. Article published in The Conversation on May 31, 2020
Covid-19 Crisis: Tracking uncertainty in the US economy
Post, April 21, 2020By Aymeric Ortmans, Fabien Tripier
The economic costs of the Covid-19 crisis will crucially depend on the evolution of financial and economic uncertainty. This blog presents a dashboard to track uncertainty in the US economy and compare the ongoing crisis to the 1987 and 2008 financial crises.
Updated from March 26 post.
Updated from March 26 post.
Vietnam: The last dragon - 2/2: Resilience faced with international tensions
Post, February 17, 2020By Michel Fouquin, Jean-Raphaël Chaponnière
Vietnam opening up and development are closely linked to the strategies of multinational companies at the heart of the transformation of economic structures. In spite of international trade tensions, Vietnam seems to be taking advantage of this by acting as a conduit for Japanese, Korean and Chinese companies to export to the United States.
Vietnam: the last dragon - 1/2: International Openness: A Guide to Vietnam's Economic Policy
Post, February 14, 2020By Michel Fouquin, Jean-Raphaël Chaponnière
Vietnam has opted for international openness since 1986 to create a “socialist market economy”, which has allowed it to experience vigorous economic expansion. Its integration into the world economy has made it an important link in international value chains, massively importing components from China and Asia in general, and exporting, as massively, finished products to the United States and Europe.
Assessing the cost of uncertainty created by Brexit
Post, December 3, 2019By Fabien Tripier
More than three years after the Brexit referendum, Brexit is still not settled, but the uncertainty remains. This long period of uncertainty has cost around half a point of economic growth per year since 2016 for the UK’s economy, which is equivalent to an annual loss of £16 billion.
CEPII Country Profiles upgrade
Post, November 20, 2019By Équipe Profils du CEPII / CEPII Profiles team
CEPII offers an enhanced version of the Country Profiles ?the online interactive pages elaborated from its own databases? which present the insertion of 80 economies in world trade. These free of use data are provided in the form of didactic illustrations for informational, educational and research purposes.
Europe in the Sino-American Trade War
Post, September 30, 2019By Cecilia Bellora
The US trade policy is severely destabilising the international trade system. The European Union is fighting to maintain the latter's stability, which is under dire threat. This text has been first published for the Schuman Foundation.
