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2 months ago | 
asiapacific.ca | Deborah Elms
While the focus on trade tariffs on Canada and others has dominated headlines, behind the scenes the rest of Trump’s trade agenda is being put into place.
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2 months ago | 
thewirechina.com | Deborah Elms |Ella Apostoaie
The Trump tariffs have arrived: the new administration is set to slap a 25 percent levy on imports from Canada, and an extra 10 percent on goods coming from China, with a planned tariff on Mexico delayed by a month as of Monday. The dramatic move has surprised governments and investors around the world. But the clues this was going to happen have been there since the moment Donald Trump returned to office.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
asiapacific.ca | Deborah Elms |Jia Wang |Stephen Nagy |Sanjay Ruparelia
Reflections from APF Canada's network experts on safeguarding Canada's interests and managing relations with Asian economies under the Trump administration.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
thejakartapost.com | Deborah Elms
ndonesia’s incoming government has boldly proclaimed a growth target of 8 percent. To reach the objective outlined by Prabowo Subianto by 2028, it is critical for the country to harness opportunities in the digital economy. Ambitious targets, however, can be undermined by policy decisions that do not support growth objectives. One potential regulatory change to the location and storage of data will harm Indonesia’s prospects for achieving broader economic development.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
foundingfuel.com | Deborah Elms |Vivek Y. Kelkar
[Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the 20th ASEAN-India Summit in September 2023. Photo by MEAphotogallery, via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)]
The Indo-Pacific is a tough neighbourhood. India delineates the Indo-Pacific as a region stretching from Africa’s eastern coast to the islands of the South Pacific, based on its strategic power projection perceptions. The region is arguably the globe’s most sensitive and contested zone, viewed from the lens of US-China rivalry.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
asiantradecentre.org | Deborah Elms
This is a bittersweet Talking Trade post. After nearly 350 posts on a wide range of trade-related topics since 2014, this is the final one. The Asian Trade Centre is closing. (But--spoiler alert--I will be remaining in Singapore to keep improving trade policy in Asia as part of the Hinrich Foundation. More details on the transition can be found below, including the link to become an HF subscriber.)I arrived in Asia in 2005 to work at a local university.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
borderlex.net | Deborah Elms
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May 30, 2023 | 
asiantradecentre.org | Deborah Elms
When I was a child, there was one house owned by dentists that used to give out a toothbrush instead of candy on Halloween. It came wrapped with a card reminding trick-or-treaters to brush after eating sweets and had an advertisement for their shop on the other side. While it’s probably a good reminder and a useful item, I can say with confidence that no kid ever dumped out their bag of goodies at the end of the night and cheered when they saw the toothbrush or read the lecture about brushing.
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May 23, 2023 | 
borderlex.net | Deborah Elms
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May 18, 2023 | 
asiantradecentre.org | Deborah Elms
There is a new idea making the rounds in Washington—to revoke what is called the “Permanent Normal Trade Relations” (PTNR) vis-à-vis China. The idea of removing normal trade status was floated last year with regard to Russia. It is now being discussed again in the context of trade between the United States and China.
