Trade Talks

New evidence reveals Trump's import tariffs are contributing to the recent slowdown in US exports.

Why is the WTO struggling to negotiate limits to fisheries subsidies? As always, it's complicated.

New research shows how Trump's trade war may have cost Republican seats in the 2018 election for the US House of Representatives.

Trump's USTR provides some details of what has been agreed, including tariff cuts, purchases and structural reforms.

USMCA gets one step closer after Congressional Democrats, organized labor, the Trump administration, and Mexico strike a deal.

Government subsidies are a key battle area in today's trade disputes. The OECD has a new way to track them down.

A former senior Trump trade official shares his take on US policy toward China, the EU and the WTO.

New evidence from the hearing aid industry on whether 3D printing will eliminate the need for trade.

The WTO authorizes China to retaliate against US exports. The timing bodes poorly for an Appellate Body already under stress.

Services trade gets no respect. The release of the WTO's World Trade Report 2019 gave us a chance to fix that.

Was letting China join the WTO a mistake? Paul Blustein describes fraught negotiations with America that culminated in its entry.

Jenny Leonard explains President Trump's October 11 announcement, as well as what it is like reporting daily on the trade war.

The WTO authorizes new US retaliatory tariffs on EU imports in one of the biggest and longest-running formal disputes in history.

Explore past US efforts to counter countries with undervalued currencies, as well as two controversial proposals to do so today.

The annual US-China Business Council survey of members paints an interesting picture of American companies operating in China.

Nicholas Lardy explains how the Chinese economy is faring thus far during the trade war.

Yuan Yang explains the Chinese telecom equipment maker's role in the US-China trade war and concerns over national security.

Anand Menon joins to update developments on Britain's plan to leave the European Union.

Kadee Russ explains why the US trade imbalance with South Korea expanded after their trade agreement went into effect.

Jeromin Zettelmeyer explains Germany's export competitiveness and why concerns over its trade surplus derive from somewhere else.

Sophie Richardson joins Keynes and Bown in a wide-ranging conversation about heightened concerns over human rights in China.

Keynes and Bown explain Trump's rollout of tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports and new evidence of global economic turmoil.

Keynes and Bown explain the controversy surrounding President Trump's decision to designate China a currency manipulator.

Adam Posen explains why the US Federal Reserve is suddenly cutting interest rates and what that has to do with President Trump's trade war.

Former USTR Michael Froman joins to discuss how the Obama administration tackled China and the World Trade Organization.

Dukgeun Ahn joins to explain how Japan's threat to limit exports to South Korea involves issues much deeper than smartphone trade.

Ben Hyman joins to discuss whether an American program actually helps workers hurt by trade.

The former Indonesian trade minister discusses trade deals – from ASEAN to RCEP to the GSP – the trade war, and more.

Gordon Hanson joins to explain the roots of the migration emergency at both the US and Mexican southern borders.

Keynes and Bown discuss Trump's national emergency declaration and potential tariffs on $350 billion of imports from Mexico.

Keynes and Bown explain Trump's latest trade action on cars and implications of his partial removal of steel and aluminum tariffs.

Lucie Gadenne (University of Warwick, IFS) joins Keynes and Bown to explain when and why some countries use import tariffs as an important source of total tax revenue collections. They discuss her research on the...

Keynes and Bown update the sudden change in US-China trade negotiations and implications of President Trump's tariff escalation.

Duncan Robinson joins to update Brexit, cleavages in British political parties, and 2019 elections to the European Parliament.

Gene Grossman joins to discuss how political economists explain trade protectionism.

Keynes and Bown discuss the US government report and economic impact assessment of the potential NAFTA replacement.

Mona Pinchis-Paulsen joins to discuss the origins and history of using national security threats to justify trade restrictions.

Keynes and Bown explain how a tiny part of US antidumping tariff calculations threatens the entire trading system.

Ernesto Zedillo joins to discuss 40 years of Mexico's trade, the impact of import substitution policies, NAFTA, and the USMCA.

Kimberly Clausing joins Keynes and Bown to discuss today's economic and policy challenges in taxing multinational companies.

Keynes and Bown discuss new research on the economics and politics behind President Trump's tariffs and the resulting retaliation.

The Trump administration pulled India and Turkey from the US Generalized System of Preference, a program that offers zero tariffs to imports from poor countries. Keynes and Bown explain the decision and how it fits into a broader battle between rich and poor countries around special and differential treatment and how it is holding up progress on WTO negotiations.

Not to be overshadowed by the Trump-China trade war, the WTO issues an important legal ruling on Chinese subsidies. Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown describe how the Americans had challenged Chinese payments to farmers of corn, wheat and rice, as well as implications of the WTO ruling for US-China trade relations and the multilateral system.

Keynes and Bown replay their November 2017 interview with Marcus Noland about one of the most closed economies in the world.

Keynes and Bown explain the upheaval in American and global soybean markets stemming from the US-China trade conflict.

Richard Baldwin joins Keynes and Bown to discuss the past and future of globalization, new technologies, and social upheaval.

Kalina Manova joins Keynes and Bown to discuss how companies' ability to borrow affects trade.

Nicholas Lardy joins Keynes and Bown to discuss the changing role of the state and private firms in China's economic development.

Keynes and Bown discuss what is behind the slowdown of global trade, supply chain expansion, and international commerce.

Keynes and Bown discuss the rocky departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Sam Lowe (Centre for European Reform) joins for an update on the latest political developments as Britain approaches the March...