Trade Talks
204 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 305 ratingsChad 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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And that is all for Trade Talks
January 30, 2024 00:38 - 10 minutes - 12.4 MBGoodbye 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?
December 19, 2023 01:49 - 46 minutes - 49.5 MBThe 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
December 10, 2023 15:49 - 37 minutes - 39.2 MBWhen 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
December 03, 2023 19:27 - 33 minutes - 34.6 MBWhat we know about the US lobbying industry and how it influences trade and other types of economic policy.
197. Moving workers across Europe
November 26, 2023 17:19 - 45 minutes - 45.4 MBHow 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
November 19, 2023 22:45 - 28 minutes - 31 MBCompanies 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?
November 12, 2023 17:11 - 24 minutes - 26 MBCanadian 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
November 05, 2023 18:20 - 40 minutes - 42 MBA 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?
October 29, 2023 19:56 - 42 minutes - 44.7 MBFollowing 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?
October 22, 2023 21:14 - 27 minutes - 29.4 MBAs 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
October 15, 2023 16:01 - 33 minutes - 36.1 MBHow 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
July 30, 2023 17:17 - 32 minutes - 36.2 MBWhat consumers can expect from auto companies investing in supply chain resilience as weather disasters loom.
189. South Korea’s controversial industrial policy
July 23, 2023 18:57 - 34 minutes - 37.6 MBHow 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?
July 16, 2023 20:02 - 39 minutes - 42.9 MBWhat 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
July 09, 2023 18:13 - 51 minutes - 54 MBHow 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
June 26, 2023 03:38 - 31 minutes - 35.2 MBHigher 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
June 18, 2023 17:51 - 28 minutes - 32 MBNew 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
May 07, 2023 19:01 - 46 minutes - 52.5 MBEVs 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
April 30, 2023 19:44 - 24 minutes - 27.4 MBIn 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?
April 23, 2023 19:40 - 44 minutes - 37.8 MBThe “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
March 21, 2023 19:16 - 45 minutes - 51.6 MBHow 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?
March 12, 2023 19:11 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBHow 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
February 26, 2023 20:40 - 35 minutes - 38.1 MBFor 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
February 19, 2023 21:00 - 53 minutes - 70.8 MBUS 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
February 12, 2023 20:11 - 32 minutes - 33.7 MBNew 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
January 29, 2023 21:44 - 47 minutes - 53.2 MBThe 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
January 22, 2023 21:21 - 54 minutes - 65.2 MBThe WTO ruled against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, dragging the organization into thorny national security issues.
174. The incredible rise of Chinese fintech
December 18, 2022 21:21 - 27 minutes - 31.8 MBNew 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?
December 08, 2022 10:26 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBNew 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
November 21, 2022 23:35 - 39 minutes - 38.5 MBA 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
November 15, 2022 21:57 - 37 minutes - 39.8 MBNew 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
November 02, 2022 22:14 - 59 minutes - 74.3 MBThe 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
October 25, 2022 23:20 - 31 minutes - 34.7 MBIn 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?
October 10, 2022 21:12 - 23 minutes - 25.7 MBWhy it matters that Chinese public opinion toward trade and technology may have changed in response to US policy.
167. Will new US tax credits remake electric vehicle supply chains?
October 03, 2022 23:21 - 29 minutes - 32.2 MBAmerica’s new EV subsidies have some carmakers upset. Others are head scratching. Can supply chains diversify away from China?
166. Biden’s new Indo-Pacific talks vs. TPP
September 21, 2022 22:04 - 44 minutes - 45.2 MBAmerica’s last attempt at trade talks with countries in the region ended badly. How Biden’s IPEF approach is different.
165. The global minimum tax got left behind. What’s next?
September 05, 2022 22:01 - 46 minutes - 59.8 MBThe Inflation Reduction Act omits the key global minimum corporate tax agreed to by over 135 countries. Will cooperation still happen?
164. Why a notorious banana company spared workers in Costa Rica
July 27, 2022 00:01 - 38 minutes - 49 MBFor decades, United Fruit Company exploited banana workers across its Latin American plantations, except in Costa Rica. Why?
163. How poorer Americans ended up paying for US tariffs.
July 19, 2022 19:51 - 37 minutes - 42.7 MBFrom fashion to forks to fishing reels, how US trade negotiations starting in the 1930s resulted in regressive import duties today.
162. Poor countries could once enforce WTO trade. That is now at risk.
July 05, 2022 01:53 - 39 minutes - 44.2 MBThe Advisory Centre on WTO Law made trade enforcement possible for poor countries. The Appellate Body crisis put that under threat.
161. Why sharing patents for COVID-19 medicines is not enough
June 26, 2022 23:12 - 42 minutes - 46.3 MBDespite the Medicines Patent Pool, COVID-19 treatments remain scarce globally. Prashant Yadav explains what more is needed.
160. How Putin’s war could disrupt global food supplies
March 15, 2022 17:43 - 30 minutes - 34.7 MBJoe Glauber explains the humanitarian crisis that looms if war cuts wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia. Soumaya Keynes says goodbye.
159. How Biden and Europe settled Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs
November 08, 2021 00:53 - 22 minutes - 24.3 MBAfter years of dispute, the EU agreed to stop retaliating and to limit exports if the US lifted Trump’s national security tariffs.
158. How America responded to its PPE shortage
October 11, 2021 23:12 - 45 minutes - 47.7 MBThe 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
September 27, 2021 23:25 - 40 minutes - 41.2 MBWorried 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
July 25, 2021 20:20 - 43 minutes - 45.2 MBCBAM! 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)
June 27, 2021 23:49 - 31 minutes - 32.4 MBLegally and technologically, paper documents are essential to international trade. How that could change (it involves blockchain).
154. Global Britain: How’s that going then?
June 17, 2021 15:11 - 27 minutes - 28.3 MBA 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
June 09, 2021 00:54 - 57 minutes - 60 MBThe 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
March 22, 2021 02:13 - 36 minutes - 34.3 MBCOVID-19 vaccines and vaccine inputs are in short supply globally. How the EU, UK, US and India are all limiting exports.