The Security and Trade Agreement for Resilience

Sam Mulopulos ()

Chapter 9 in Achieving Supply Chain Resilience, 2025, pp 182-190 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter identifies shortcomings in current approaches to trade agreements for supply chain resilience and proposes a new type of trade agreement called the Security and Trade Agreement for Resilience (STAR). The STAR creates a plurilateral regime for market economies to combine all three resilience-building interventions and reduce their collective dependence on other countries, especially non-market autocracies like China and Russia. The STAR would liberalize trade in critically vulnerable goods, mandate countries to make investments in industrial capacity, and create procedures for supply chain reviews, stress tests, and wargames among the parties to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. The STAR would also add a national security element with specific provisions designed to increase parties’ collective resilience against non-market autocracies.

Keywords: Indo-Pacific Economic Framework; Trade agreement; China; Tariffs; Rules of origin; Investment; Security and Trade Agreement for Resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035349500
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