123. Coronavirus: From Quarantine to Trade

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123. Coronavirus: From Quarantine to Trade

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

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Feb 28, 2020

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Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad P. Bown (Peterson Institute for International Economics) cohost 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 two of the world's top trade geeks.

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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... by Trade Talks
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101: Huawei, National Security, and the Trade War: Yuan Yang explains the Chinese telecom equipment maker’s role in the US-China trade war and concerns over national security. by Trade Talks
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80: Zeroing: The Biggest WTO Threat You’ve Never Heard Of (#45): Keynes and Bown explain how a tiny part of US antidumping tariff calculations threatens the entire trading system. by Trade Talks
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79: A President Explains Mexican Trade: Ernesto Zedillo joins to discuss 40 years of Mexico’s trade, the impact of import substitution policies, NAFTA, and the USMCA. by Trade Talks
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97: Watching China’s Human Rights: Sophie Richardson joins Keynes and Bown in a wide-ranging conversation about heightened concerns over human rights in China. by Trade Talks
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96: Trump’s Next China Tariffs and Fears in the Global Economy: Keynes and Bown explain Trump’s rollout of tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports and new evidence of global economic turmoil. by Trade Talks
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91: Can Trade Adjustment Assistance Work?: Ben Hyman joins to discuss whether an American program actually helps workers hurt by trade. by Trade Talks
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90: Trade Policy the Asian Way: Former Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Pangestu discusses trade deals – from ASEAN to RCEP to the GSP – the trade war, and more. by Trade Talks
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99: The Surprising Story of the US Trade Deficit with South Korea: Kadee Russ explains why the US trade imbalance with South Korea expanded after their trade agreement went into effect. by Trade Talks
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95: Is China a Currency Manipulator?: Keynes and Bown explain the controversy surrounding President Trump’s decision to designate China a currency manipulator. by Trade Talks
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94: The Fed and the Trade War, with Adam Posen: 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. by Trade Talks
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86: When Is Tariff Revenue Bad Tax Revenue?: 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... by Trade Talks
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93: US Trade Policy Before Trump, with Ambassador Michael Froman: Former USTR Michael Froman joins to discuss how the Obama administration tackled China and the World Trade Organization. by Trade Talks
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91: Can Trade Adjustment Assistance Work?: Ben Hyman joins to discuss whether an American program actually helps workers hurt by trade. by Trade Talks
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109: A Different US-China Fight Hits the Headlines: The WTO authorizes China to retaliate against US exports. The timing bodes poorly for an Appellate Body already under stress. by Trade Talks
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113: How and Why Congressional Democrats Tweaked the USMCA: USMCA gets one step closer after Congressional Democrats, organized labor, the Trump administration, and Mexico strike a deal. by Trade Talks
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107: Bombed Embassies and Document Leaks – How China Got into the WTO: Was letting China join the WTO a mistake? Paul Blustein describes fraught negotiations with America that culminated in its entry. by Trade Talks
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98: What’s Wrong with Germany’s Trade Surplus?: Jeromin Zettelmeyer explains Germany’s export competitiveness and why concerns over its trade surplus derive from somewhere else. by Trade Talks
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100: Sneaking Up on a No-Deal Brexit: Anand Menon joins to update developments on Britain’s plan to leave the European Union. by Trade Talks
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103: US-China Trade War from the Trenches: The annual US-China Business Council survey of members paints an interesting picture of American companies operating in China. by Trade Talks
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111: Trade Policy Under Trump: A former senior Trump trade official shares his take on US policy toward China, the EU and the WTO. by Trade Talks
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104: How to Hit Currency Manipulators and Fight the Strong Dollar: Explore past US efforts to counter countries with undervalued currencies, as well as two controversial proposals to do so today. by Trade Talks
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102: Is Trump Beating the Chinese Economy?: Nicholas Lardy explains how the Chinese economy is faring thus far during the trade war. by Trade Talks
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110: Will 3D Printing Increase Trade? Hear All About It: New evidence from the hearing aid industry on whether 3D printing will eliminate the need for trade. by Trade Talks
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119. Stock Markets, the Economy, and Trump’s Trade Policy Uncertainty: Nick Bloom joins to discuss policy uncertainty under President Trump and implications for the economy and stock market. by Trade Talks
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106: Trump’s Mini-Deal with China: Jenny Leonard explains President Trump’s October 11 announcement, as well as what it is like reporting daily on the trade war. by Trade Talks
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112: Forensic Subsidies Detectives and Trade Disputes: Government subsidies are a key battle area in today’s trade disputes. The OECD has a new way to track them down. by Trade Talks
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105: Aircraft Subsidy Disputes: How These Tariffs Are Different: The WTO authorizes new US retaliatory tariffs on EU imports in one of the biggest and longest-running formal disputes in history. by Trade Talks
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108: Making Services Trade Great: Services trade gets no respect. The release of the WTO’s World Trade Report 2019 gave us a chance to fix that. by Trade Talks
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130. So you want to design a tariff schedule…: Making sense of the ‘Global Tariffs’ that the UK will begin to apply to thousands of imported products after Brexit is complete. by Trade Talks
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158. How America responded to its PPE shortage: The US reacted to COVID-19 shortfalls of hospital masks, gowns and gloves with unprecedented trade and industrial policy. by Trade Talks
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157. Europe’s Trade Policy and Open Strategic Autonomy: Worried about being bullied by trading partners, the European Union is developing a host of new policy tools. by Trade Talks
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156. Tackling climate change with a carbon border adjustment mechanism: CBAM! The EU proposes phasing out free permits from its emissions trading system and phasing in a carbon tax on some imports. by Trade Talks
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155. How trade can break up with paper (it involves blockchain): Legally and technologically, paper documents are essential to international trade. How that could change (it involves blockchain). by Trade Talks
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154. Global Britain: How’s that going then?: A beginners guide to the spat over Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol, plus the UK signs a new trade deal with Australia. by Trade Talks
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153. Multilateral tax cooperation gets one step closer: The G7 economies agreed to a potential historic change in how governments tax multinational corporations. by Trade Talks
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152. The murky world of export restrictions for COVID-19 vaccines: COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine inputs are in short supply globally. How the EU, UK, US and India are all limiting exports. by Trade Talks
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151. Container shipping costs are through the roof. Who’s paying?: Companies and regulators have begun to worry about the spike in container shipping costs and pandemic-related trade disruptions. by Trade Talks
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150. Is the WTO making it harder to end the pandemic?: India, South Africa, and more than 50 other countries propose changing WTO rules for vaccines and other medical supplies. by Trade Talks
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149. Everyone Loves (or Hates) Buy America: President Biden’s first trade action was to tighten rules on what imports the US government can buy. by Trade Talks
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148. The EU’s new trade policy, with Sabine Weyand of DG Trade: Sabine Weyand joins to discuss EU trade policy, transatlantic cooperation and conflict, China, forced labor, WTO, climate and more. by Trade Talks
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147. What’s in the new EU-UK trade deal? Brexperts explain: The EU and UK announce their long-awaited trade agreement formalizing Brexit. What is covered, and what is still to be negotiated. by Trade Talks
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146. Semiconductors and US export bans – from Huawei to SMIC: How and why the United States is banning exports of semiconductors, software and tools to some of the world’s largest companies. by Trade Talks
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145. Xinjiang’s forced labor, supply chains, and trade sanctions: Concerns escalate that forced labor and other crimes against humanity are taking place in Xinjiang, China. by Trade Talks
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144. Trade policy transitions, with Ambassador Susan Schwab: From tariff leverage to trade deals, a former USTR explains how the baton is handed from one American administration to the next. by Trade Talks
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143. RCEP – Separating fact from friction: China, Japan, South Korea and 12 other Asian countries finally signed that mega-trade deal. Here’s what’s in it. by Trade Talks
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142. Can Biden Make Trade Boring Again?: The incoming US administration inherits a big trade agenda. Who will lead it and how much of it will they do? by Trade Talks
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141. Britain’s Trade Policy, 1815-2016: From Corn Laws to Imperial Preferences to joining the EEC, Britain’s current trade policy conundrum has echoes from the past. by Trade Talks
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140. Is shipping ship-shape?: Containerized shipping is an odd business in normal times. What happens when you add a pandemic and a trade war? by Trade Talks
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139. How Technology Enabled Trade: Digitization and Offshoring: At the turn of the century, electronic communication suddenly helped firms fragment production, but only some went overseas. by Trade Talks
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138. Trade and the worst financial crisis of the century—in 1866: London’s central role in 19th century trade finance meant that its bank failure had effects for decades. by Trade Talks
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137. Imbalances, Inequality, and Trade: China, the US and Germany each suffer from inequality and trade imbalances. Their linkages, and how policymakers try to fix them. by Trade Talks
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136. Vaccine economics, and why we need trade to end the pandemic: Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala explains one way to solve the economic problem of how to manufacture and globally distribute a vaccine. by Trade Talks
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135. All you need to know about the race to lead the WTO: What people want from the next leader of the World Trade Organization. by Trade Talks
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134. Opportunities and setbacks for Black workers in the 20th century: Economic gains for America’s Black workers stalled in the 1970s. The role of migration, policy and trade. by Trade Talks
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133. How one man and some metal boxes revolutionized global trade: Malcom McLean spurred containerized shipping in the 1950s. The impact on people, ports, cities and, of course, trade, was massive. by Trade Talks
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132. US-China Trade War: The Negotiators: How the people Presidents Trump and Xi tapped to negotiate helped shape the US-China trade relationship over 2017-2020. by Trade Talks
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131. How travel matters for trade: Why Nigerian traders pay so much to travel to China, and how COVID-19 has made that more complicated. by Trade Talks
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130. So you want to design a tariff schedule…: Making sense of the ‘Global Tariffs’ that the UK will begin to apply to thousands of imported products after Brexit is complete. by Trade Talks
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123. Coronavirus: From Quarantine to Trade

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