TPP Trumped, Focus Switches to Bilateral Trade Deals

By Ed Zwirn (Read  in Wards Auto, Jan. 27, 2017)

TPP opponents include Trump, protesters in Wellington, New Zealand. Neal Ballantyne

TPP opponents include Trump, protesters in Wellington, New Zealand.
Neal Ballantyne

Now that Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the auto industry faces other trade-policy challenges, particularly the attempts to strike bilateral deals one-on-one with many countries at once. Continue reading

A Time of Disruption

By Ed Zwirn

Read in CFO Magazine November 2016

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Political scenarios aplenty threaten global growth and the fortunes of multinationals.

The U.S. presidential election and all of its attendant ugliness and divisiveness may soon be an unhappy memory, but political developments around the world continue to cloud the risk profiles of global companies. Continue reading