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Mar 04 2025

APEBC Webinar: Growing Threats to Global Trade

Recent decades have seen a huge expansion of global trade, underpinned by the fairness principles and dispute settlement mechanisms of the World Trade Organization. Since the global recession in 2007/08, global trade growth has slowed, and with the rise of populist politicians in the United States and elsewhere a new appetite for protectionist trade policies has arrived. Western countries have experienced a process of de-industrialization and employment losses that has been referred to as the “China shock”: a surge of Chinese imports into the United States and the European Union since China’s WTO accession in 2001. The US election in November has brought a new administration to the White House that has threatened 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and even higher tariffs on China. A new era of US protectionism poses threats to the global economy that recalls memories of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which contributed significantly to the Great Depression. How will Canada and the world economy cope with this threat? How can business prepare, and how will Canada’s political leadership engage with the new administration in Washington? Will globalization give way to trade wars and deglobalization, or is all the political posturing just hot air and negotiation tactics?

Werner Antweiler Dr. Werner Antweiler UBC Sauder School of Business, International Trade Policy Chair

After receiving his doctorate in economics from the University of Toronto, Werner Antweiler joined the Sauder School of Business in 1996. He is an Associate Professor and holds the Chair in International Trade Policy. He is also Chair of the Strategy and Business Economics Division at the Sauder School of Business. His research spans international trade, environmental economics, energy economics, and natural resource economics. His recent research focuses on the emerging international trade in hydrogen, cross-border electricity trade, the integration of renewable energy into electricity systems, electricity market design, and the electrification of mobility. He teaches course on The Integrated Global Economy: Past, Present, and Future and The Economics and Policy of the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources. Professor Antweiler is also a frequent commentator on many public policy issues and appears frequently in news media in British Columbia and Canada.

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Microsoft Teams
Mar 04, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST

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  • Justin Chesney
  • Paula Struk Jaia
  • Salim Zanzana
  • Mario Baker
  • Taylor Adams
  • Aidan Smith-Edgell
  • Rowena Ahsan
  • Andrew Trachsell
  • Aaron Sydor
  • Valerie Picketts
  • Jasmine Batalla
  • Charles DeLand
  • Anneloes Pronk
  • Nadine Cormier
  • Annick Léger
  • Michael Barkusky
  • Belinda Powell
  • Alan Arcand
  • George Amponsah-Tabi
  • Melville McMillan
  • Robert Bartnik
  • Yash Dhaundiyal
  • Mathieu Amyot
  • Martin Rice
  • Pourousha Marandi
  • Chrystelle Saizonou
  • Matthew Sebastiani