Category: Frontiers of Trade

27 Aug, 2026

Frontiers of trade: Climate, weather and international trade 

This is the sixth and final edition of our Frontiers of Trade series, where we look at the trade issues businesses will face in the coming decade. The first looked at the rules governing the origin of a resource mined in space, the second asked who is liable when an autonomous AI agent executes a […]
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20 Aug, 2026

Frontiers of Trade: Testing future competitiveness with the Flint FAST model

This is the fifth piece in Flint’s Frontiers of Trade series, which looks beyond today’s tariffs and geopolitical tensions to the questions businesses will need to confront over the next decade. Previous instalments examined resources mined in space, autonomous AI agents, trusted information at the border, and the national-security treatment of biological capability. This piece […]
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13 Aug, 2026

Frontiers of Trade: Biology, national security and the border 

This is the fourth instalment of our  Frontiers of Trade  Policy series, which examines the places where international commerce is running ahead of the law meant to govern it. The first instalment asked which country owns a resource mined in space, the second asked who is liable when an autonomous AI agent, rather than a […]
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30 Jul, 2026

Frontiers of Trade: The information economy of trade 

This is the third piece in our Frontiers of Trade Policy series, which examines the places where international commerce is running ahead of the law meant to govern it. The first asked which country owns a resource mined in space, where rules of origin have no territory to point to. The second asked who is […]
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23 Jul, 2026

Frontiers of Trade: AI agents as traders  

Welcome to the second in our Frontiers of Trade series. We're looking beyond today's headlines on tariffs and geopolitical tensions to the questions businesses will need to confront over the next decade. This blog examines what happens when AI agents begin executing cross-border trade without human oversight, and why the legal frameworks governing those trades are not ready.  Imagine […]
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16 Jul, 2026

Frontiers of Trade: Space, asteroids & rules of origin 

Welcome to the first of Flint Global’s Frontiers of Trade series. We’re taking the opportunity to look beyond the current issues dominating the current trading environment, well known as tariffs and geopolitical tensions are, to look at what questions businesses will need to be thinking about in the next twenty years. Our first blog questions […]
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