2023
| International Trade Barrier Index

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Philip Thompson

I am absolutely grateful for the support of the Tholos Foundation, an organization that values individual volition, market freedom, and entrepreneurship. I am deeply grateful to the Tholos Foundation’s Executive Director, Christopher Butler and Vice President of International Affairs, Lorenzo Montanari for their leadership and guidance in turning the TBI into a tool used by advocates all over the world. The 2023 TBI could not have been completed without the enlightening contributions by Tholos colleagues Tim Andrews and Andreas Hellmann.

I also must thank Christopher Lingle for offering an encouraging foreword.

A special thank you to the authors of the case studies published in the 2023 Trade Barrier Index. The Index continues to be a platform for think tanks to share their challenges and successes with trade policy. I am also grateful to our associates Nele Ball and Jackson Avery for their help in research and producing the 2023 Index.