The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Commonwealth Trade, Recovery and Resilience

This issue of Trade Hot Topics provides an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect economic activity in the Commonwealth. Bearing these impacts in mind, including the contagion effect on Commonwealth supply chains, it proposes a unique framework for understanding how a sustainable recovery could unfold over three stages. It concludes with some measures that can be considered to support growth, recovery and resilience.