Trade Talks

Finbarr Bermingham (South China Morning Post) joins to explain how the European Union is using tariffs, cybersecurity, product bans, and industrial policy in its own trade war with China, as well as how Beijing is...

Chad travels to the Port of Los Angeles, the largest container port in North America, and speaks with its Executive Director, Gene Seroka, for an update on US trade with China, as well as the...

Former CHIPS program chief economist Dan Kim (TechInsights) joins for a wide-ranging conversation about artificial intelligence and US semiconductors policy – including the CHIPS Act subsidies, tariffs, and export controls – as well as its...

Sam Cooper, the owner of Klear Vu, a company that makes seat cushions in Massachusetts and imports fabric from China, joins for a candid explanation about the impact of the US tariffs in 2025 on...

Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times) joins to cohost an emergency episode explaining President Trump’s sweeping April 2 tariff announcement. Bown and Keynes turn to Douglas A. Irwin on history, Maurice Obstfeld on the US dollar, and...

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (City University of New York) joins for a wide-ranging conversation on historical lessons as well as some new thinking about international trade, the “agglomeration economies” driving geographically concentrated production, industrial policy,...

A potential US-Ukraine critical minerals agreement is only the latest effort to address security concerns over US sourcing of critical minerals from China. America’s previous top diplomat for critical minerals, Geoff Pyatt (former Assistant Secretary...

Europe had a rocky ride during President Trump’s first term, but it was largely spared from significant tariffs. The world is different this time around. Former European Commission trade official Rupert Schlegelmilch joins to explain...

Shipments of small packages from China have skyrocketed, but the de minimis policy that excludes them from tariffs may end. Chris Casey (Congressional Research Service) joins to explore the history of the US de minimis...

President Trump first imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum in 2018, but this time it's different. Ana Swanson (New York Times) joins to explain.

EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be over, but other conflicts remain.

In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping industry’s response offers lessons for other countries.

The “Made in China 2025” subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. But have they worked?

How do we reconcile “record-level” US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between the two economies?

How understanding the WTO’s past can help foster its revival – including for policy challenges like climate and China’s non-market economy.

For 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?

US sanctions on European allies repeatedly failed to stop Russian gas pipelines, harmed transatlantic ties, and undermined US policy.

New research examines how NGOs, consumers, and major retailers responded to the outrage following the 2013 tragedy in Bangladesh.

The leakage of submarine technology to the Soviet Union in the 1980s has lessons for the limits to and coordination of allies’ export controls today.

The WTO ruled against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, dragging the organization into thorny national security issues.

New super apps and other internet-enabled technologies have transformed China’s financial sector, with global implications, says Martin Chorzempa.

New research reveals how Britain’s economy benefited from the brutal transatlantic slave trade and its slave holdings.

A flood of imports from China had an unexpected impact on the Peruvian clothing industry while discouraging Peru’s women workers.

New research examining India’s pandemic lockdowns sheds light on which supply chains stuck together, which broke apart, and why.

The history behind the sudden US ban on certain exports to China, and how the policy affects the global semiconductor supply chain.

In the 1950s, Taiwan was the first poor economy to experiment with trade reform. How its success changed the course of history for others.

Why it matters that Chinese public opinion toward trade and technology may have changed in response to US policy.

America’s new EV subsidies have some carmakers upset. Others are head scratching. Can supply chains diversify away from China?

America’s last attempt at trade talks with countries in the region ended badly. How Biden’s IPEF approach is different.

The Inflation Reduction Act omits the key global minimum corporate tax agreed to by over 135 countries. Will cooperation still happen?

For decades, United Fruit Company exploited banana workers across its Latin American plantations, except in Costa Rica. Why?

From fashion to forks to fishing reels, how US trade negotiations starting in the 1930s resulted in regressive import duties today.

The Advisory Centre on WTO Law made trade enforcement possible for poor countries. The Appellate Body crisis put that under threat.

Despite the Medicines Patent Pool, COVID-19 treatments remain scarce globally. Prashant Yadav explains what more is needed.

Joe Glauber explains the humanitarian crisis that looms if war cuts wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia. Soumaya Keynes says goodbye.

After years of dispute, the EU agreed to stop retaliating and to limit exports if the US lifted Trump’s national security tariffs.

The US reacted to COVID-19 shortfalls of hospital masks, gowns and gloves with unprecedented trade and industrial policy.

Worried about being bullied by trading partners, the European Union is developing a host of new policy tools.

CBAM! The EU proposes phasing out free permits from its emissions trading system and phasing in a carbon tax on some imports.

Legally and technologically, paper documents are essential to international trade. How that could change (it involves blockchain).

A beginner's guide to the spat over Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol, plus the UK signs a new trade deal with Australia.

The G7 economies agreed to a potential historic change in how governments tax multinational corporations.

COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine inputs are in short supply globally. How the EU, UK, US and India are all limiting exports.

Companies and regulators have begun to worry about the spike in container shipping costs and pandemic-related trade disruptions.

President Biden’s first trade action was to tighten rules on what imports the US government can buy.

Sabine Weyand joins to discuss EU trade policy, transatlantic cooperation and conflict, China, forced labor, WTO, climate and more.

The EU and UK announce their long-awaited trade agreement formalizing Brexit. What is covered, and what is still to be negotiated.

How and why the United States is banning exports of semiconductors, software and tools to some of the world’s largest companies.

Concerns escalate that forced labor and other crimes against humanity are taking place in Xinjiang, China.

From tariff leverage to trade deals, a former USTR explains how the baton is handed from one American administration to the next.