Trade Talks
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Trade Talks
Chad P. Bown (Peterson Institute for International Economics) hosts a podcast about the economics of international trade and policy. From trade wars to trade deals, this podcast covers trade developments with insights and economic analysis from one of the world's top trade geeks.
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210 epizód
207. What happened on Trump’s tariff day
Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times) joins to cohost an emergency episode explaining President Trump’s sweeping April 2 tariff announcement. Bown and Keyn...
206. Paul Krugman talks trade, industrial policy, and Trump
Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (City University of New York) joins for a wide-ranging conversation on historical lessons as well as some new thinking abo...
205. Trump's Ukraine minerals deal and China
A potential US-Ukraine critical minerals agreement is only the latest effort to address security concerns over US sourcing of critical minerals from C...
204. Is Europe ready for Trump?
Europe had a rocky ride during President Trump's first term, but it was largely spared from significant tariffs. The world is different this time arou...
203. What if Trump halts duty-free packages from China?
Shipments of small packages from China have skyrocketed, but the de minimis policy that excludes them from tariffs may end. Chris Casey (Congressional...
202. Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs are back
President Trump first imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum in 2018, but this time it's different. Ana Swanson (New York Times) joins to explain (32:2...
201. Trade Talks is back. And so is President Trump.
Tariffs from the new President call for an emergency relaunch of the longstanding trade podcast. Aime Williams (Financial Times) joins to explain what...
And that is all for Trade Talks
Goodbye for now, as old friend Soumaya Keynes joins Chad Bown to discuss why and what comes next.
200. Has the USMCA improved working conditions in Mexico?
The USMCA was supposed to prevent workers from being mistreated at Mexican factories. How is it working so far?
199. How trade economists busted corruption at the port
When customs officials in Madagascar cheated their country out of tax revenues, economists caught them. But the fight is not over yet.
198. Inside Washington’s lobbying industry
What we know about the US lobbying industry and how it influences trade and other types of economic policy.
197. Moving workers across Europe
How the European Union’s controversial “posting” policy impacted the movement of workers as well as local communities across the continent.
196. How multinationals avoid taxes through technology licensing
Companies can avoid taxes by moving profits from IP royalties offshore. What would happen if that changed?
195. How did Canadian workers adjust so well to US trade?
Canadian workers faced new competition after the sudden free trade agreement with the US in 1989. Why were they able to adjust so successfully?
194. Industrial policy detectives: China’s subsidies for shipbuilding
A new way to measure China’s subsidies for shipbuilding reveals how much they transformed the industry for the country and world.
193. Did multinationals enforce Bangladesh’s new labor law?
Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse, foreign companies promised to enforce Bangladesh’s new labor law. What happened next?
192. Will more farm trade cause more deforestation?
As trade with farm exporting countries expands, governments must also consider how to prevent deforestation.
191. Brazil’s trade opening and its toll on workers and crime
How Brazil’s trade liberalization of the 1990s led to unexpected and lasting impacts on workers and a temporary rise in violence.
190. Climate change, floods, and the future of auto supply chains
What consumers can expect from auto companies investing in supply chain resilience as weather disasters loom.
189. South Korea’s controversial industrial policy
How South Korea’s Heavy and Chemical Industry Drive policy of 1973-79 worked and may have contributed to its economic rise.
188. Did responsible sourcing by multinationals help workers in poor countries?
What happened to workers and others in Costa Rica when global companies imposed new responsible sourcing codes of conduct on their suppliers.
187. Industrial policy and the rise of Romania’s Silicon Valley
How a 2001 income tax break for Romanian software programmers helped transform the country’s information technology sector.
186. How US lead regulations hurt Mexican babies
Higher US lead standards in 2009 resulted in more production and pollution from Mexican plants. Nearby infants and kids suffered.
185. The historic collapse of Switzerland’s watch industry
New quartz technology and competition from Japan devastated the dominant Swiss watch industry of the 1970s. What happened next?
184. The US-EU fights over electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act
EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be over, but other conflicts remain.
183. How the United States cleaned up container ship pollution
In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping industry’s response offers lessons for other countries.
182. Is China’s industrial policy working?
The “Made in China 2025” subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. But have they worked?
181. US-China trade war fallout: This is what decoupling looks like
How do we reconcile “record-level” US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between the two economies?
180. The WTO is in trouble. Econ 101 to the rescue?
How understanding the WTO’s past can help foster its revival – including for policy challenges like climate and China’s non-market economy.
179. Why Taiwan restricts high-tech investment into China
For decades, Taiwan has limited how and how much its tech firms like TSMC could invest in mainland China. Are there lessons for the United States?
178. Why sanctions to stop Russian gas pipelines backfired
US sanctions on European allies repeatedly failed to stop Russian gas pipelines, harmed transatlantic ties, and undermined US policy.
177. How the Rana Plaza factory collapse changed global supply chains
New research examines how NGOs, consumers, and major retailers responded to the outrage following the 2013 tragedy in Bangladesh.
176. The Cold War scandal over export controls
The leakage of submarine technology to the Soviet Union in the 1980s has lessons for the limits to and coordination of allies’ export controls today.
175. The dreaded WTO ruling on Trump’s national security tariffs
The WTO ruled against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, dragging the organization into thorny national security issues.
174. The incredible rise of Chinese fintech
New super apps and other internet-enabled technologies have transformed China’s financial sector, with global implications, says Martin Chorzempa.
173: Did Britain’s slave trade help drive its industrial revolution?
New research reveals how Britain’s economy benefited from the brutal transatlantic slave trade and its slave holdings.
172. Peru’s “China shock”: Surprising turns and the women left behind
A flood of imports from China had an unexpected impact on the Peruvian clothing industry while discouraging Peru’s women workers.
171. What makes a supply chain resilient
New research examining India’s pandemic lockdowns sheds light on which supply chains stuck together, which broke apart, and why.
170. National security, semiconductors, and the US move to cut off China
The history behind the sudden US ban on certain exports to China, and how the policy affects the global semiconductor supply chain.
169. Taiwan’s risky trade opening and how it paid off
In the 1950s, Taiwan was the first poor economy to experiment with trade reform. How its success changed the course of history for others.