Trade Talks
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67: Blood Trade
Keynes and Bown speak with Alice Fulwood (The Economist) about what is behind the $150 billion of annual trade in blood plasma products. They cut through the mystery of the exploding trade flows by explaining...
66: Paul Krugman Talks Trade
Keynes and Bown sit down with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (CUNY and New York Times) in a wide-ranging interview about international trade. They discuss NAFTA, labor standards, and the USMCA (2:25); the current toxicity...
65: What Would a Trump-China Deal Look Like?
Keynes and Bown explain the recent 90-day agreement between Presidents Trump and Xi that puts on hold further tariff escalation between the United States and China. They speak with Mark Wu (Harvard Law) and former...
64: (Trade) Dealing with Europe
Keynes and Bown speak with veteran trade journalist Alan Beattie (Financial Times) about the complexities of negotiating with the European Union on trade. They discuss the EU's dealings with the UK over Brexit and the...
63: Can Trump and the EU Strike a Deal?
Keynes and Bown discuss the prospect of negotiations between the United States and the European Union on a trade deal that would meet President Trump's objectives of zero tariffs, zero nontariff barriers, and zero subsidies....
62: Randomized Trade
Keynes and Bown speak with Amit Khandelwal (Columbia Business School) about the impact that exporting has on firm productivity. They discuss his evidence from a randomized control trial that new foreign market access improved how...
61: Trade, Firms, Profits, and Market Power: It's Complicated
Keynes and Bown speak with incoming World Bank Chief Economist Penny Goldberg (Yale University) about her research on how trade liberalization affects consumers and firms when firms have market power. They discuss the impact that...
60: America May Be Doing Away with WTO Dispute Settlement
Keynes and Bown talk with former WTO Appellate Body member Jennifer Hillman (Georgetown Law) about WTO dispute settlement. They describe the procedural, philosophical, and judicial complaints the United States has with the current way of addressing...
59: A Hard Border from History
Keynes and Bown talk with Stephen Redding (Princeton University) about his research on the border between East and West Germany erected in the mid-20th century. They discuss the loss of market access for cities near...
58: Woodward. Trump. Fear. Trade Is Bad.
Keynes and Bown talk with best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward about his latest book Fear: Trump in the White House. From snatching trade agreement withdrawal letters off the president's desk to...
57: It's Fun to Discuss the USMCA—the New NAFTA
Keynes and Bown describe key elements of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, announced on October 1, 2018. Beneath the spin, they analyze what the deal really does, including where new market access has been...
56: Do You Like Trade? Tariffs? Trade Deals? China?
Keynes and Bown speak with Bruce Stokes (Pew Research Center) about recent poll results on public attitudes toward trade. They discuss how Americans feel about trade and trade agreements, China, differences between self-identified Democrats and...
55: Is India a Trade Troublemaker?
Keynes and Bown speak with Arvind Subramanian (PIIE, Harvard Kennedy School) about the massive changes in India's trade policy since the 1980s. They examine the scope and impact of India's trade liberalization; the importance of...
54: Can Trump Withdraw from Trade Deals?
Keynes and Bown examine the legal arguments surrounding President Trump's threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement and World Trade Organization. They speak with legal experts Gary Hufbauer (PIIE), Rachel Brewster (Duke...
53: Oh NAFTA–It's Canada's Turn
Keynes and Bown examine critical economic issues caught up in Canada's talks with the Trump administration over the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement. They speak with Meredith Lilly (Carleton University) and Madelaine...
52: NAFTA "Deal Fever"
Keynes and Bown examine the still murky details on autos and a potential sunset clause for the Mexico-United States trade agreement--which the Trump administration says is designed to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement...
51: Trade at the White House in Not So Normal Times
Keynes and Bown have a conversation with Jason Furman (PIIE, Harvard Kennedy School)--a former senior economic adviser of the Obama administration--about American economic policy. They ask Furman about economic and trade policy during the Great...
50: Aluminum Made in the USA
Keynes and Bown explore the aluminum industry: how to make it, changes in North American production over the past few decades, and the industry's real complaints. They discuss the Trump administration's tariffs on imported aluminum...
49: Are Trump's Steel Quotas Worse than His Steel Tariffs?
Keynes and Bown describe how the Trump administration's quotas imposed on steel imports from South Korea, Brazil, and Argentina are different from the simple application of tariffs. They speak with Ambassador Jennifer Hillman—former administrator of...
48: Trump Buys the Farmers
Keynes and Bown explain the US government decision to offer up to $12 billion of subsidies to farmers adversely affected by trade retaliation stemming from President Trump's tariffs on steel, aluminum, and China. They speak...
47: WTO S.O.S.–Save our System
Keynes and Bown detail an emerging approach for the European Union, Japan, China—and the Trump administration—to resolve the conflict over subsidies, one of the most pressing challenges confronting the World Trade Organization. They explain the...
46: How Do Trump's Tariffs Stack Up Historically?
Keynes and Bown compare President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed to date—on solar panels, washing machines, steel, aluminum, and Chinese imports—with other major American protectionist episodes. They speak to economic historian Douglas A. Irwin (PIIE) about...
45: Zeroing: The Biggest WTO Threat You've Never Heard Of
Keynes and Bown explain the outsized importance of "zeroing"—a technical, yet politically controversial method the United States uses to calculate antidumping tariffs. They speak to Thomas Prusa (Rutgers University) about zeroing's contentious negotiating history, how...
44: Brexit Two Years On
Keynes and Bown explain recent developments in the UK-EU trade talks on Britain's departure from the European Union. At the two-year mark after the June 23, 2016 Leave referendum, they speak to Anand Menon (King's...
43: Costing Trump's China Tariffs
Keynes and Bown explain some implications of President Trump's plan to impose tariffs on US imports from China starting July 6, 2018, which could escalate to cover $450 billion of American imports. They speak to...
42: Trump and Tariff Tweets: It's More Complicated Than That
Bown and Keynes explain the nonreciprocal pattern of tariffs—and nontariff barriers—across countries highlighted by President Trump's tweets and statements about high levels of tariff protection received by Canadian dairy farmers, automakers in Europe and China,...
41: Trump and China's "War of Saliva"
Keynes and Bown discuss a variety of Chinese perspectives of the Trump administration's trade policy.
40: Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: Trump versus Everyone
Bown and Keynes explain the economic implications of President Trump's decision to apply steel and aluminum trade restrictions on virtually all US trading partners as of June 1, 2018. Countries have announced their plans to...
39: Car Crash–Trump Sees More National Security Threats
Keynes and Bown talk with Kristin Dziczek (Center for Automotive Research) about President Trump's new investigation into whether imports of autos threaten American national security. They discuss the implications of potential new tariffs for the NAFTA negotiations,...
38: ZTE, Trump, and China–What's the Fuss?
Keynes and Bown discuss with Yuan Yang of the Financial Times how the US Commerce Department decision to sanction Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE—and its potential reversal by President Trump—affects the firm's supply chain and Chinese and American...
37: Cottoning on to Trade
Keynes and Bown talk with Professor Claudia Steinwender (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) about her research on the impact of the trans-Atlantic telegraph on trade. New information through the telegraph affected 1860s cotton price differences between...
36: The Railroads Episode: America, India, and Intranational Trade
Keynes and Bown discuss with Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) his research on how massive railroad projects—across America in the late 1800s and colonial India in the early 1900s—affected trade costs, market access, intranational...
35: The Labor of NAFTA
Bown and Keynes explain controversial elements of the ongoing NAFTA negotiations that relate to jobs, wages, and workers. There are tradeoffs in the new proposals for automobile rules of origin, the enforcement of labor standards...
34: So You Want To Be a Trade Negotiator
Bown and Keynes sit down with former acting deputy US Trade Representative Wendy Cutler to learn how to negotiate trade agreements. Wendy shares 25 years of experience balancing domestic politics, while driving hard bargains with...
33: Trade and Investment Talks: China Wants America's Technology
Keynes and Bown explain the Chinese economic development strategy at the core of the Trump administration's Section 301 dispute and latest tariff threats. They discuss Beijing's "Made in China 2025" industrial policy, how technology gets...
32: Trump, China, and Tariffs: $3 billion, $50 billion, or $100 billion?
Keynes and Bown discuss the escalating tariff fight between President Trump and China. They update the status of Trump's "national security" tariffs on steel and aluminum as well as Beijing's retaliation over $3 billion of...
31: Trade Wars and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff: What Really Happened?
Keynes and Bown speak with Douglas Irwin (PIIE and Dartmouth College) about popular misconceptions around the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, the Great Depression, and the global trade wars that ensued. They discuss how the...
30: Trade Talks to Real People
Keynes and Bown have a conversation with Ana Swanson from the New York Times about trade and journalism. They discuss encounters relating to steel, aluminum, softwood lumber and lobsters, as well as the surprises along....
29: After Trump's Tariffs: Retaliation, Negotiation, and Litigation
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown explain developments resulting from President Trump's announcement of new "national security" import tariffs on steel and aluminum.
28: What Are Trade Deals For? Dani Rodrik Does Trade Talks, Part 4
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown have a wide-ranging conversation with Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) about trade agreements. In Part 4 of this 4-episode conversation, they provide a...
27: What Are Trade Deals For? Dani Rodrik Does Trade Talks, Part 3
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown have a wide-ranging conversation with Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) about trade agreements. In Part 3 of this 4-episode conversation, they discuss concerns...
26: What Are Trade Deals For? Dani Rodrik Does Trade Talks, Part 2
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown have a wide-ranging conversation with Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) about trade agreements. In Part 2 of this 4-episode conversation, they discuss ways...
25: What Are Trade Deals For? Dani Rodrik Does Trade Talks, Part 1
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown have a wide-ranging conversation with Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) about trade agreements. In Part 1 of this 4-episode conversation, they discuss the...
24: The Trump Administration Views Trade as National Security Threat
Soumaya Keynes of the Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown explore the US Department of Commerce findings that imports of steel and aluminum threaten national security and the recommendation that President Trump impose...
23: Did Protectionism Make America Great?
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of the Economist talk with PIIE Senior Fellow Douglas Irwin about his recent book Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy and the role...
22: The Other UK Trade Deals–Brexit and Rolling over the EU's FTAs
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist discuss the challenges facing the UK government as it seeks negotiations separate from the Brexit talks to maintain existing market access through the...
21: North American Cars–Before and After NAFTA
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss the evolution of the auto industry in North America. Long before the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the 1965 Canada-US...
20: Tariff Time! Washing Machines and Dirty Trade Policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss the controversy surrounding the US washing machine market and update the solar panels case, in light of President Trump's decision to impose...
19: GSP – Low Tariffs for Development?
Keynes and Bown discuss the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the program rich countries use to offer lower tariffs to exporters in developing countries. They discuss a variety of programs—the now expired US GSP scheme,...
18: Brexit–Sectoral Analyses or Impact Assessments?
Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown speak with Professor Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge) about her Brexit research. Crowley describes results from her use of information on product-level UK exports...