Trade Talks
Chad P. Bown
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.
Episodes
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Apr 18, 2019 • 25min
81: National Security and Trade – The Fear of Imitation
Mona Pinchis-Paulsen joins to discuss the origins and history of using national security threats to justify trade restrictions.
Apr 9, 2019 • 23min
80: Zeroing: The Biggest WTO Threat You've Never Heard Of (#45)
Keynes and Bown explain how a tiny part of US antidumping tariff calculations threatens the entire trading system.
Apr 6, 2019 • 28min
79: A President Explains Mexican Trade
Ernesto Zedillo joins to discuss 40 years of Mexico's trade, the impact of import substitution policies, NAFTA, and the USMCA.
Mar 31, 2019 • 23min
78: Trade Talks Does Its Taxes
Kimberly Clausing joins Keynes and Bown to discuss today's economic and policy challenges in taxing multinational companies.
Mar 24, 2019 • 22min
77: Happy Tariffversary
Keynes and Bown discuss new research on the economics and politics behind President Trump's tariffs and the resulting retaliation.
Mar 10, 2019 • 23min
76: Trump versus India: Fighting over Which Poor Countries Are Special
The Trump administration pulled India and Turkey from the US Generalized System of Preference, a program that offers zero tariffs to imports from poor countries. Keynes and Bown explain the decision and how it fits into a broader battle between rich and poor countries around special and differential treatment and how it is holding up progress on WTO negotiations.
Mar 3, 2019 • 18min
75: A US-China Farm Subsidy Fight at the WTO
Not to be overshadowed by the Trump-China trade war, the WTO issues an important legal ruling on Chinese subsidies. Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown describe how the Americans had challenged Chinese payments to farmers of corn, wheat and rice, as well as implications of the WTO ruling for US-China trade relations and the multilateral system.
Feb 28, 2019 • 26min
74: Trade Talks Tough – Sanctions on North Korea (#14)
Keynes and Bown replay their November 2017 interview with Marcus Noland about one of the most closed economies in the world.
Feb 23, 2019 • 24min
73: Soybeans and the Trade War Fallout
Keynes and Bown explain the upheaval in American and global soybean markets stemming from the US-China trade conflict.
Feb 14, 2019 • 28min
72: Richard Baldwin on Disruption, Technology and Trade
Richard Baldwin joins Keynes and Bown to discuss the past and future of globalization, new technologies, and social upheaval.
