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Chief economist update: East and west at crossroads

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... of face, especially as everyone pretends not to have seen." But I digress. Australia could invoke World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules and regulations or seek redress from the international trade body. But what good will it do compared to a large economy ...

Chief economist update: An extra mile for a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... highlighted that the financial services sector, the UK's largest services export, is likely to weather the initial storm of a WTO-terms exit since it has been preparing for several years to leave on 'no-deal' terms. This was highlighted by ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... into poverty and global income could fall by as much as $1.4 trillion." Their warnings were also preceded by the OECD and the WTO. In its 'Interim Economic Outlook' report published on the 19th of September, the OECD lowered its world economic ...

Chief economist update: Japan tightens fiscal policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) - Japan does the opposite. Japan effectively tightened ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised forecasts for a synchronised slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... global income could fall by as much as $1.4 trillion." But both these reports have already been telegraphed by the OECD and the WTO. In its 'Interim Economic Outlook' report published on September 19, the OECD lowered its world economic growth ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... European products it will hit with tariffs in retaliation for $11 billion worth of damage from EU subsidies to Airbus that WTO has found cause "adverse effects" to US. List includes passenger helicopters, various cheeses and wines, ski suits and certain ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Who better to talk about trade than the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In its latest report the WTO put into perspective the goings-on in the on-going global war on trade. To wit: "A total of 39 new trade-restrictive measures were applied by G20 economies ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... protectionism. We note the importance of bilateral, regional and plurilateral agreements being open, transparent, inclusive and WTO-consistent, and commit to working to ensure they complement the multilateral trade agreements. We commit to modernise ...

A year on from Brexit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... on trading and what access to the EU might look like in the future. However, even in a worst case scenario - reverting to WTO rules and tariff levels - some of the pain to the UK export sector has been blunted by the 13% fall in the British pound relative ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... Japan in terms of higher demand for its exports. This, though, is still work in progress if the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) latest world trade forecast is anything to go by. The WTO cut its estimate for global trade growth to 3.3% this year (4.5% ...
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