Tariffs are dominating the news and raising burning questions for investors, policymakers, academics, business owners, activists and more. This session offers an opportunity to put such questions to tariff experts from across the full spectrum of trade policy.

Why do governments impose tariffs?

What changes at the border when tariffs are threatened, imposed or lifted? How do actors respond effectively to the uncertainty?

Put these questions and more to the panel of leading experts as they provide a multi-faceted assessment of the political economy of tariffs, their legal basis, and the customs implications for government and business alike.

Speakers:

Javier GUTIERREZ, Counsellor, World Trade Organization

Simon EVENETT, Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy, IMD Business School

Dmitry GROZOUBINSKI, Executive Director, Geneva Trade Platform

Anna JERZEWSKA, Director - Global Customs, DSV

Mona PAULSEN, Assistant Professor of International Economic Law, LSE Law School