Trade Talks

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.

India, South Africa, and more than 50 other countries propose changing WTO rules for vaccines and other medical supplies. Rachel Silverman (Center for Global Development) and Tom Bollyky (Council on Foreign Relations) help explain compulsory...

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.

China, Japan, South Korea and 12 other Asian countries finally signed that mega-trade deal. Here's what's in it.

The incoming US administration inherits a big trade agenda. Who will lead it and how much of it will they do?

From Corn Laws to Imperial Preferences to joining the EEC, Britain's current trade policy conundrum has echoes from the past.

Containerized shipping is an odd business in normal times. What happens when you add a pandemic and a trade war?

At the turn of the century, electronic communication suddenly helped firms fragment production, but only some went overseas.

London's central role in 19th century trade finance meant that its bank failure had effects for decades.

China, the US and Germany each suffer from inequality and trade imbalances. Their linkages, and how policymakers try to fix them.

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala explains one way to solve the economic problem of how to manufacture and globally distribute a vaccine.

What people want from the next leader of the World Trade Organization.

Economic gains for America's Black workers stalled in the 1970s. The role of migration, policy and trade.

Malcom McLean spurred containerized shipping in the 1950s. The impact on people, ports, cities and, of course, trade, was massive.

How the people Presidents Trump and Xi tapped to negotiate helped shape the US-China trade relationship over 2017-2020.

Why Nigerian traders pay so much to travel to China, and how COVID-19 has made that more complicated.

Making sense of the 'Global Tariffs' that the UK will begin to apply to thousands of imported products after Brexit is complete.

Faulty Chinese medical gear emerges, as both the US and China adjust their product regulations in response to the pandemic.

In good times, cosmetics are a logistical challenge, as dangerous goods go from ideas to store shelves. Now come the hard times.

Understanding the Great Trade Collapse of 2009 may help anticipate the impending decline in exports and imports today.

How companies are coping (or not) with the massive disruption in global trade flows due to COVID-19.

Countries try to beat COVID-19 by limiting exports of medical supplies and cutting tariffs.

Does globalization contribute to the gender wage gap? Beata Javorcik joins to explain one overlooked channel.

Simon Rabinovitch joins from China to discuss the economic, trade, and supply chain implications of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19.

A Washington protest march and the wine industry illustrate the impact of US tariffs on American small businesses.

How the Napoleonic Blockade helps economists see whether temporary protection from trade can further industrial development.

What is the Glasgow effect? Richard Davies explains, and tells the gripping economic story of the Scottish city's boom and bust.

Nick Bloom joins to discuss policy uncertainty under President Trump and implications for the economy and stock market.

Two former and longtime USTR negotiators join to explain the details of the new US-China trade agreement.