Is trade becoming regionalized?

Policymakers in the United States, and to a lesser extent in Europe, are trying different tactics aimed at derisking, decoupling, and homeshoring global value chains. As a result, trade is becoming regionalized to a certain extent. But many other countries are still seeing the value of international trade and are concluding regional or bilateral free trade agreements with each other to facilitate trade and market access. How is global trade viewed from the perspective of such countries, for example Mexico and New Zealand, members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Transpacific Partnership (CPTPP)? How do they see the future of the CPTPP and the prospects for reform of the multilateral trading system?
Joining this episode of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) event series Trade Winds are:
HOST
Cecilia Malmström
Nonresident Senior Fellow, PIIE
GUESTS
Juan Carlos Baker Pineda
Researcher, Gobierno y Economia at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico; Former Deputy Minister of Trade, Mexico
Vangelis Vitalis
Deputy Secretary of Trade and Economy, New Zealand
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