Sylvia Chen

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Sylvia is an independent policy advisor in Berlin, advising international businesses on diverse trade policy questions. In 2019-2020, she was one of the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship recipients, for which she examined the transatlantic dimension of China trade matters while working at the German Ministry of Economics and Energy and Bosch GmbH. Before moving to Germany, she worked as a trade attorney in a law firm in Washington, DC. Her practice focused extensively on antidumping and countervailing duty cases, US trade policy developments, and customs matters.

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Relaunching Transatlantic Trade Relations in Early Biden Presidency?
Relaunching Transatlantic Trade Relations in Early Biden Presidency?

Sylvia Chen

“America is back. The transatlantic alliance is back,” remarked President Joe Biden shortly after he took office. After inheriting the legacy of the Trump administration’s unilateral trade policy that led to transatlantic tensions, President Biden wants to re-engage the United States’ key allies, particularly the European Union, and re-commit to multilateralism. In mid-June this year, President Biden traveled to Brussels during his first overseas trip to participate in a US-EU Summit.

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This Ain’t Business as Usual: Eight Ways the Pandemic Shook Up the Global Trading System in 2020

Marta Bengoa et al.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the global economy, and also likely altered the global trading system for good.

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Trade ExperettesAuthors, Sylvia Chen, TE-SkillsLab