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Are we heading toward trade wars?
There was plenty of opposition in Europe to trade liberalization well before Donald Trump took the United States out of TTIP and other multilateral agreements (source: dpa)
General info
What's inside
- Expanding trade promotes peace and prosperity, but the current trend is decline
- Rising economic uncertainty has fueled populism and state intervention
- Globalization has powerful stakeholders, however, and may be hard to roll back
Who will benefit?
- Report is targeted to the decision makers in cross country manufacturing – suppliers, manufacturers, logistics.
- Also considered useful for the administrative university facilities, to better understand the possible effects of current decisions.
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