The global trade and investment architecture (GTIA) plays a critical role in shaping the organisation and structure of international commerce – from production and distribution to consumption. In so doing, the architecture impacts trade and investment outcomes, with a range of economic, social, and environmental implications. Yet the GTIA faces a suite of tensions and questions—some longstanding and some new—about whose interests it best advances, its distributional impacts, as well as its responsiveness to changing market forces and needs, and political demands.

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