The global landscape of goods trade is currently undergoing a significant transformation. The established flows of commerce are being reshaped by economic, political, and technological forces. Since 2000s, this change…
The federal government has approved the National Tariff Policy (NTP) 2025–30, a transformative step toward trade liberalization. If implemented as planned—reducing the maximum customs duty (CD) to 15 percent and…
In the wake of the pandemic, and the fast-unfolding of the climate change crisis has basically brought into focus the cracks in the supply chains globally. Such cracks have been…
President Donald Trump’s recent tariff policy is grounded in a fundamental misunderstanding of international trade economics, specifically the erroneous belief that bilateral trade deficits inherently represent unfair exploitation. Driven by…
In a move that has sent shockwaves through the globe, President Trump’s administration has launched a sweeping new wave of reciprocal tariffs — a policy shift announced on ‘Liberation Day’…
New US steel tariffs are set to disrupt a multi-billion dollar supply chain moving steel from China to the United States via third countries, ratcheting up competition in the global…
It’s still early days, of course, but it seems the so-called Trump Trade is already unraveling, and with it, many of the assumptions that shaped global markets over the past…
The slew of political and economic measures announced by the Trump Administration has created an impression that the world is returning to an era of an insane protectionism and intense…
ADAPTATION to climate change is the defining element for the subsistence of Pakistan’s growing population. While Pakistan is repeatedly hit by climate disasters, it still has to develop its adaptation…
Pakistan has the world’s seventh-most protected economy. The country’s inward oriented trade policies have served as a substantial roadblock to integration in regional and global value chains. This is evidenced…
