Chad P. Bown

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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Chad P. Bown

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Latest episode

May 26, 2026

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Episodes

192. Will more farm trade cause more deforestation? 22.10.2023

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 15.10.2023

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 30.07.2023

What consumers can expect from auto companies investing in supply chain resilience as weather disasters loom.

189. South Korea's controversial industrial policy 23.07.2023

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? 16.07.2023

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 09.07.2023

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 26.06.2023

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 18.06.2023

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 07.05.2023

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 30.04.2023

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? 23.04.2023

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 21.03.2023

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? 12.03.2023

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 26.02.2023

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 19.02.2023

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 12.02.2023

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 29.01.2023

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 22.01.2023

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 18.12.2022

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? 08.12.2022

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 21.11.2022

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 15.11.2022

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 02.11.2022

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 25.10.2022

In the 1950s, Taiwan was the first poor economy to experiment with trade reform. How its success changed the course of history for others.

168. Did Trump's trade war make China more protectionist? 10.10.2022

Why it matters that Chinese public opinion toward trade and technology may have changed in response to US policy.

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