IPSC Professional Development & CPD · Module 07 · Available from September
Economic Coercion & Trade Retaliation
Identify how market pressure, trade tools, and statecraft are being used to shape commercial behaviour and strategic outcomes.
This 3.5-hour professional development module examines how economic coercion, retaliatory trade measures, and broader geoeconomic pressure affect business exposure, policy choices, market access, and strategic decision-making across the Indo-Pacific. The next offering will be available from September.
Module overview
A practical module for professionals who need to understand how tariffs, import restrictions, export pressure, licensing tools, and other forms of economic statecraft are being used to influence behaviour across markets and institutions.
3.5-hour live CPD intensive
Designed for lawyers, trade advisers, policy professionals, executives, risk teams, government stakeholders, and institutions managing cross-border commercial or strategic exposure.
Trade pressure as statecraft
The module focuses on how trade measures, market access restrictions, investment pressure, and regulatory tools are used to signal, punish, deter, or reshape behaviour.
Commercial risk and strategic advice
Participants examine how economic coercion affects supply chains, contracts, counterparties, pricing, market entry, public policy, and board-level risk decisions.
Sharper geoeconomic judgement
Participants leave with a clearer framework for recognising coercive patterns, assessing exposure, and briefing clients or institutions on commercial and strategic implications.
Learning outcomes
Participants build a practical framework for identifying how coercive economic tools operate and how they affect trade, investment, and strategic decision-making.
Understand coercive economic tools
Understand how tariffs, import bans, export restrictions, investment pressure, tourism restrictions, licensing barriers, and regulatory scrutiny can be used as instruments of statecraft.
Identify coercive patterns
Recognise how formal and informal economic pressure can be applied to alter political positions, influence commercial behaviour, or generate strategic signalling.
Assess exposure and vulnerability
Evaluate how concentration risk, market dependency, logistics exposure, customer reliance, and sector sensitivity can increase vulnerability to retaliation or coercion.
Advise strategically
Translate geoeconomic complexity into clear advice for executives, legal teams, government stakeholders, boards, and institutional decision-makers.
Session structure
The module moves from core concepts and coercive tools to applied analysis of retaliation risk, market exposure, and strategic response options.
Economic statecraft landscape
Overview of how economic coercion fits within wider statecraft, including trade, regulation, finance, and strategic market dependence.
Coercive tools and retaliation patterns
Examine how tariffs, restrictions, targeted disruptions, informal pressure, and administrative barriers are used to influence state or corporate behaviour.
Commercial exposure and resilience
Assess how firms, sectors, and institutions can be exposed through market concentration, supply-chain dependence, route vulnerability, and policy sensitivity.
Advisory application
Applied exercise in assessing a coercion-risk scenario and drafting a concise note on implications for market strategy, governance, legal advice, or institutional positioning.
Enrolment
Register interest in Economic Coercion & Trade Retaliation.
This module will be offered from September and can contribute to CPD requirements for many professional bodies, subject to each organisation’s rules. IPSC can provide a statement of structured learning hours on completion.