Ep. 56: Kick the Dog to Avoid Poking the Bear: Canada's 232 Countdown, USTR's India Dilemma, a Transshipment Trojan Horse

Our trade insiders count down to the August 19th tariff deadline with Canada. Is an interim deal in the card and does trading away autos, steel, and aluminum leverage help or hurt the USMCA review and talks with Mexico? Then they turn to stalled Southeast Asian and Indian negotiations awaiting the pending excess capacity 301s, with deals already struck sitting unratified while countries jockey over rates and coverage. And the core debate: do the administration's latest China moves, new drone and polysilicon tariffs layered onto an existing truce, amount to kicking the dog to avoid poking the bear? What does that signal to neighbors wary of Beijing landing the better deal? They close with a weary eye on the administration's transshipment report and its missing piece: a plan to work with allies rather than go it alone.Featured Speakers:Wendy Cutler, Senior Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Acting Deputy U.S. Trade RepresentativeKellie Meiman Hock, Senior Counselor, McLarty Associates; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University former Director of Brazil and the Southern Cone, Office of the United States Trade RepresentativeMark Linscott, former Assistant USTR for South and Central Asia and before that WTO and Multilateral Affairs and currently a Senior Advisor at the Asia Group and the US-India Strategic Partnership ForumModerator: Joe Damond, Non-resident Senior Associate at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in their Southeast Asia program; former Deputy Assistant USTR for Asia