Trade Talks

158. How America responded to its PPE shortage 11.10.2021 45:14 ↓

The US reacted to COVID-19 shortfalls of hospital masks, gowns and gloves with unprecedented trade and industrial policy.

157. Europe’s Trade Policy and Open Strategic Autonomy 27.09.2021 40:41 ↓

Worried about being bullied by trading partners, the European Union is developing a host of new policy tools.

156. Tackling climate change with a carbon border adjustment mechanism 25.07.2021 43:46 ↓

CBAM! The EU proposes phasing out free permits from its emissions trading system and phasing in a carbon tax on some imports.

155. How trade can break up with paper (it involves blockchain) 27.06.2021 31:05 ↓

Legally and technologically, paper documents are essential to international trade. How that could change (it involves blockchain).

154. Global Britain: How’s that going then? 17.06.2021 27:56 ↓

A beginner's guide to the spat over Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol, plus the UK signs a new trade deal with Australia.

153. Multilateral tax cooperation gets one step closer 09.06.2021 57:35 ↓

The G7 economies agreed to a potential historic change in how governments tax multinational corporations.

152. The murky world of export restrictions for COVID-19 vaccines 22.03.2021 36:26 ↓

COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine inputs are in short supply globally. How the EU, UK, US and India are all limiting exports.

151. Container shipping costs are through the roof. Who’s paying? 15.03.2021 22:15 ↓

Companies and regulators have begun to worry about the spike in container shipping costs and pandemic-related trade disruptions.

150: Is the WTO making it harder to end the pandemic? 25.02.2021 31:43 ↓

India, South Africa, and more than 50 other countries propose changing WTO rules for vaccines and other medical supplies. Rachel Silverman (Center for Global Development) and Tom Bollyky (Council on Foreign Relations) help explain compulsory...

149. Everyone Loves (or Hates) Buy America 03.02.2021 31:26 ↓

President Biden’s first trade action was to tighten rules on what imports the US government can buy.

148. The EU’s new trade policy, with Sabine Weyand of DG Trade 17.01.2021 41:46 ↓

Sabine Weyand joins to discuss EU trade policy, transatlantic cooperation and conflict, China, forced labor, WTO, climate and more.

147. What’s in the new EU-UK trade deal? Brexperts explain 04.01.2021 32:15 ↓

The EU and UK announce their long-awaited trade agreement formalizing Brexit. What is covered, and what is still to be negotiated.

146. Semiconductors and US export bans – from Huawei to SMIC 21.12.2020 32:36 ↓

How and why the United States is banning exports of semiconductors, software and tools to some of the world’s largest companies.

145. Xinjiang’s forced labor, supply chains, and trade sanctions 03.12.2020 30:17 ↓

Concerns escalate that forced labor and other crimes against humanity are taking place in Xinjiang, China.

144. Trade policy transitions, with Ambassador Susan Schwab 24.11.2020 24:02 ↓

From tariff leverage to trade deals, a former USTR explains how the baton is handed from one American administration to the next.

143. RCEP – Separating fact from friction 18.11.2020 30:52 ↓

China, Japan, South Korea and 12 other Asian countries finally signed that mega-trade deal. Here’s what’s in it.

142. Can Biden Make Trade Boring Again? 11.11.2020 28:57 ↓

The incoming US administration inherits a big trade agenda. Who will lead it and how much of it will they do?

141. Britain’s Trade Policy, 1815-2016 26.10.2020 27:49 ↓

From Corn Laws to Imperial Preferences to joining the EEC, Britain’s current trade policy conundrum has echoes from the past.

140. Is shipping ship-shape? 12.10.2020 24:04 ↓

Containerized shipping is an odd business in normal times. What happens when you add a pandemic and a trade war?

139. How Technology Enabled Trade: Digitization and Offshoring 24.09.2020 20:26 ↓

At the turn of the century, electronic communication suddenly helped firms fragment production, but only some went overseas.

138. Trade and the worst financial crisis of the century—in 1866 11.09.2020 17:41 ↓

London’s central role in 19th century trade finance meant that its bank failure had effects for decades.

137. Imbalances, Inequality, and Trade 31.08.2020 33:19 ↓

China, the US and Germany each suffer from inequality and trade imbalances. Their linkages, and how policymakers try to fix them.

136. Vaccine economics, and why we need trade to end the pandemic 13.08.2020 24:18 ↓

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala explains one way to solve the economic problem of how to manufacture and globally distribute a vaccine.

135. All you need to know about the race to lead the WTO 28.07.2020 29:13 ↓

What people want from the next leader of the World Trade Organization.

134. Opportunities and setbacks for Black workers in the 20th century 10.07.2020 39:20 ↓

Economic gains for America’s Black workers stalled in the 1970s. The role of migration, policy and trade.