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Podcast interview with Görg on U.S.-China Deal on Rare Earths

17th September 2025
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In June this year, high-ranking representatives from the United States and China met in London for the second time amid escalating trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies. The talks resulted in a reaffirmation of the Geneva agreement reached in May, including a substantial 90-day suspension of punitive tariffs. China agreed to resume shipments of critical raw materials and to grant temporary export licenses to U.S. firms. In response, the U.S. side signaled a conditional willingness to ease restrictions on technology exports[...]

Germany’s Path Forward: Building on Leading Edges to Counter China’s Challenges

24th March 2025
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China has made substantial economic progress during the last decades, shifting towards advanced manufacturing and technologies. Chinese firms in key sectors have received massive subsidies which enable them to produce at lower costs and to better compete in the global markets. One key example here is the car industry, particularly the production of electric vehicles (EVs)[...]

Görg on Trump’s blackmail strategy: “Then the trade order would be completely dead

3rd February 2025
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US President Donald Trump is imposing an additional 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on imports from China until the crises of illegal migration and drugs are alleviated. A week ago, President Trump also threatened to implement steep tariffs on imports from Colombia after the country barred deportation flights from landing. In the end, Colombia agreed to accept deported migrants, temporarily avoiding a trade war between the two countries[...]

Görg: Tariffs on electric vehicles from China will have significant negative impacts on the electrification transition of the European automotive industry

17th June 2024
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In October 2023, the European Commission initiated an anti-subsidy investigation on imports of battery electric vehicles from China. On June 12, 2024 the Commission provisionally concludes the “electric vehicle value chains in China benefit from unfair subsidies”[...]

Holger Görg commented on the initiative “India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor”

17th October 2023
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During the G20 summit in mid-September 2023 in New Delhi, the governments of India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Italy, France, Germany, the European Union and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding, aiming to establish the India – Middle East – Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). This is expected to improve and intensify the connectivity and economic integration between Asia, the Arabian Gulf, and Europe through railway and shipping networks. Shortly after the announcement […]

New Kiel Study on Firm Impact of Due Diligence EU Legislation

21st September 2023
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A new study “The cumulative effect of due diligence EU legislation on SMEs” requested by the INTA Committee from the European Parliament from the KCG researchers, Aoife Hanley, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich, jointly with Rainer Thiele (Kiel Institute) is now published. The study addresses the expected impact of the EU’s Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)[...]