Trade Talks

Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times) joins to cohost an emergency episode explaining President... more

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (City University of New York) joins for a wide-ranging convers... more

A potential US-Ukraine critical minerals agreement is only the latest effort to address se... more

Europe had a rocky ride during President Trump's first term, but it was largely spared fro... more

Shipments of small packages from China have skyrocketed, but the de minimis policy that ex... more

President Trump first imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum in 2018, but this time it's di... more

Tariffs from the new President call for an emergency relaunch of the longstanding trade po... more

Goodbye for now, as old friend Soumaya Keynes joins Chad Bown to discuss why and what come... more

The USMCA was supposed to prevent workers from being mistreated at Mexican factories. How ... more

When customs officials in Madagascar cheated their country out of tax revenues, economists... more

What we know about the US lobbying industry and how it influences trade and other types of... more

How the European Union’s controversial “posting” policy impacted the movement of workers a... more

Companies can avoid taxes by moving profits from IP royalties offshore. What would happen ... more

Canadian workers faced new competition after the sudden free trade agreement with the US i... more

A new way to measure China’s subsidies for shipbuilding reveals how much they transformed ... more

Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse, foreign companies promised to enforce Banglades... more

As trade with farm exporting countries expands, governments must also consider how to prev... more

How Brazil’s trade liberalization of the 1990s led to unexpected and lasting impacts on wo... more

What consumers can expect from auto companies investing in supply chain resilience as weat... more

How South Korea’s Heavy and Chemical Industry Drive policy of 1973-79 worked and may have ... more

What happened to workers and others in Costa Rica when global companies imposed new respon... more

How a 2001 income tax break for Romanian software programmers helped transform the country... more

Higher US lead standards in 2009 resulted in more production and pollution from Mexican pl... more

New quartz technology and competition from Japan devastated the dominant Swiss watch indus... more

EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be... more

In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping ind... more

The “Made in China 2025” subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by... more

How do we reconcile “record-level” US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on mor... more

How understanding the WTO’s past can help foster its revival – including for policy challe... more

For decades, Taiwan has limited how and how much its tech firms like TSMC could invest in ... more