The Hinrich Foundation Trade Podcast

In this special edition of Current Accounts, the Hinrich Foundation’s podcast on global trade, Patrícia Vasconcellos from the US Association of Foreign Press Correspondents and Keith Rockwell , former WTO director and senior research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation delve into the evolving global trade patterns.  There is a notable shift in global trade patterns, particularly in case of the US. Th...

The semiconductor is at the forefront of the convergence of global trade and geopolitics. McKinsey projects the industry will reach a trillion dollars by 2030, up from US$574 billion last year according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The industry, however, is increasingly at the mercy of the most intense geopolitical contest in the world today. Makers of the world’s most advanced chips...

In this special edition of Current Accounts, the Hinrich Foundation ’s podcast on global trade, guest host Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey from the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States ( AFPC-USA ) and Executive Director of Asia Trade Center Deborah Elms , discuss how lack of standardization is proving to be a challenge in decarbonizing the steel industry.  Iron and steel produc...

In this special edition of Current Accounts , the Hinrich Foundation ’s podcast on global trade, guest host Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey from the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States ( AFPC-USA ) talks to Hinrich Foundation Research Fellow Stewart Paterson , delving into a discussion centered around the question of whether globalization is under threat. This episode was first...

In this fifth edition of Current Accounts, the Hinrich Foundation's podcast on global trade, Hinrich Foundation Research Fellow Stewart Paterson speaks with former New Zealand trade negotiator Stephanie Honey on the seeming ubiquity of trade digitization and the resistance in parts of the global trade supply chain to digital facilitation.  In the last few decades, the internet enabled a new t...

In this special edition of Current Accounts, the Hinrich Foundation ’s global trade podcast, guest host former US Representative Charles Boustany leads a discussion on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum 2023 with former US Deputy Trade Representative Robert Holleyman and Shihoko Goto of the Wilson Center. The episode was first featured in Asia Insight, the podcast of the National B...

In this fourth edition of Current Accounts, the Hinrich Foundation's podcast on global trade, Research Fellow Stewart Paterson speaks with Naoise McDonagh , Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law at Australia’s Edith Cowan University, on the national security calculus driving decoupling and the crucial role of legal contestability of such measures undertaken by the US and China aga...

In this third edition of Current Accounts, the Hinrich Foundation 's podcast on global trade, our Research Fellow Stewart Paterson speaks with Emily de la Bruyère , co-founder of Horizon Advisory and a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracy, on China’s growing global export prowess, its leverage on world markets, and trade dependency in the technology sector. When China...

In this second edition of Current Accounts, the Hinrich Foundation 's podcast on global trade, our Research Fellow Stewart Paterson speaks with Jeff Ferry , chief economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, on how globalization has evolved from a worldwide success for multinational corporations to a dilemma for the American economy, blamed for job losses, low wages, and slow growth....

In this first edition of Current Accounts, the Hinrich Foundation's newly launched trade podcast, our Research Fellow Stewart Paterson speaks with Jan David Bakker, of Bocconi University, on the rise of non-tariff barriers to trade, their impact on economic welfare, and the nature of data analysis on traded goods from horses to salt. As the United Kingdom takes the first tentative steps into...