Ep 57: Everything Everywhere All at Once: Canada, Mexico, and What’s Next with the 301s?

With a deadline approaching on the Smoot Hawley Section 338 tariffs threatening $20 billion in Canadian imports, our trade insiders unpack a deal no one has seen yet, from what relief on autos, aluminum, steel, and lumber might look like to what the US may have secured on dairy and the removal of retaliation on autos and liquor. They weigh whether it's a win-win or a negotiating ploy to declare victory before the deal is finalized; whether Prime Minister Carney can sell it to the premiers; and what a revived Keystone XL might add to bilateral relations. Then to Mexico, the good student that has been addressing US concerns unilaterally for a year and only now watches Canada land 232 relief first. Finally, the long delayed 301 report on structural excess capacity: a serious effort to negotiate away barriers, or a pretext to replace the tariffs the Supreme Court threw out? They close on an agency under stress, doing everything everywhere all at once.Featured Speakers:Ed Gresser, Vice President & Director for Trade & Global Markets, Progressive Policy Institute; former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Policy and Economics - author of the Trade Fact of the WeekKate Kalutkiewicz, Senior Managing Director, McLarty Associates; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Trade, National Economic Council, in the first Trump AdministrationChris Padilla, Senior Advisor, Brunswick Group; former Under Secretary of Commerce for International TradeModerator: Mike Smart, Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors; former Director for International Trade and Investment, National Security Council, The White House; former Trade Counsel, Democratic Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance