Trade Talks

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**Trade Talks**

Chad P. Bown (Peterson Institute for International Economics) hosts a podcast about the economics of international trade and policy. From trade wars to trade deals, this podcast covers trade developments with insights and economic analysis from one of the world’s top trade geeks.

Latest Episodes:

82: How Big Is the USMCA? It’s Uncertain Apr 27, 2019

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

81: National Security and Trade – The Fear of Imitation Apr 18, 2019

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

80: Zeroing: The Biggest WTO Threat You’ve Never Heard Of (#45) Apr 09, 2019

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

79: A President Explains Mexican Trade Apr 06, 2019

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

78: Trade Talks Does Its Taxes Mar 31, 2019

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

77: Happy Tariffversary Mar 24, 2019

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

76: Trump versus India: Fighting over Which Poor Countries Are Special Mar 10, 2019

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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.

75: A US-China Farm Subsidy Fight at the WTO Mar 03, 2019

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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.

74: Trade Talks Tough – Sanctions on North Korea (#14) Feb 28, 2019

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

73: Soybeans and the Trade War Fallout Feb 23, 2019

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