On December 5, 2022, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized the 6th session of its “Trade Policy Preview” (TP-P) brainstorming series on U.S.A. Xiankun Lu, Founder and CEO of FMG moderated this session.
Simon Evenett, FMG member and coordinator of Global Trade Alert; Jennifer Hillman, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center shared their insights on the trade policies of U.S.A. and answered the questions from the audience. Jonathan Fried, FMG member and Former Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO shared his perspectives as discussant. Fernando De Mateo, FMG member and former Ambassador of Mexico, and Amrita Bahri, Co-Chair for Mexico of the WTO Chair Program also made their comments.
Nearly 50 participants joined the brainstorming, including members of FMG, Ambassadors/DPRs of WTO members, Directors of WTO divisions, representatives from related international organizations, and experts from renowned think tanks and universities etc.
Since 2021, FMG has launched the brainstorming initiative titled “Trade Policy Preview” (TP-P) to host a candid and forward-looking dialogue on trade policy trends of key players of the WTO and their implications on the WTO reform discussions. FMG has successfully organized five TP-P sessions on China, Russia, Pakistan, Mexico and Brazil.
Recording of this session can be watched via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_B1JrIDvkk. And the slides the speakers shared are included in the attachments below.
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Annex 1: Simon Evenett FMG Presentation 221205
1. Simon_US TPR WTO Presentation FMG 5 December 2022
Annex 2: Jennifer Hillman FMG Presentation 221205
Annex 3: Jonathan Fried FMG Presentation 221205
3. Jonathan FMG December 5 2022
Annex 4: Program
| 15:00-15:02 |
Opening Remarks Speaker: Xiankun Lu (FMG) |
| 15:02-15:04 |
Introduction Speaker: Xiankun Lu (FMG) |
| 15:04-15:55 |
Presentations Moderator: Xiankun Lu (FMG) |
| 15:04- 15:19 | Speaker 1: Simon Evenett (FMG) |
| 15:19- 15:34 | Speaker 2: Jennifer Hillman (Georgetown University) |
| 15:34- 15:49 | Discussant: Jonathan Fried (FMG) |
| 15:49-15:55 | Commentators: Fernando De Mateo (FMG), Amrita Bahri (Co-Chair for Mexico) |
| 15:55- 16:30 |
Discussions Moderator: Xiankun Lu (FMG) |
Annex 5: List of confirmed participants
1.FMG/FFMG
Axel Addy (FMG)
Mercedes Araoz (FMG)
Clemens Boonekamp (FMG)
Simon Evenett (FMG)
Deborah Elms (FMG)
Jonathan T. Fried (FMG)
Alejandro Jara (FMG)
Xiankun Lu (FMG)
Hamid Mamdouh (FMG)
Cecilia Malmstrom (FMG)
Fernando De Mateo (FMG)
Mia Mikic (FMG)
Victor Do Prado (FMG)
John M Weekes (FMG)
Alan Wolff (FMG)
Brad McDonald (FFMG)
Sean Doherty (FFMG)
Anabel González (FFMG)
2.WTO Missions
Canada: Nadia THEODORE, Ambassador
Malaysia: Syahril Syazli GHAZALI, Ambassador
New Zealand: Clare KELLY, Ambassador
Djibouti: KADRA AHMED HASSAN, Ambassador
Norway: Petter ØLBERG, Ambassador
India: P.S. GANGADHAR, DPR
China: Li Yihong, DPR
Costa Rica: Jaime Coghi ARIAS, DPR
Mexico: Dora RODRÍGUEZ, DPR
EU: Hiddo HOUBEN, DPR
Switzerland: Boris RICHARD, DPR
Singapore: Darryl LEONG, DPR
3.WTO Secretariat
Willy Alfaro, Director, Trade Policies Review Division
Kuiten Bernard, Senior Counsellor on External Relations, WTO
4.International Organizations
Yuvan Beejadhur, World Bank
Aditi Sara Verghese, WEF
5.Think Tanks
William Reinsch, CSIS
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, ECIPE
Peter Ven den Bossche, WTI
6.Universities
Jennifer Hillman, Georgetown University
Petros Mavroidis, Columbia Law School
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