129. Operation Quack Hack: Are China’s medical supplies safe to trade?

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129. Operation Quack Hack: Are China’s medical supplies safe to trade?

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May 15, 2020

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

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May 15, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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120. Extreme Trade: The Rise and Fall of Glasgow’s Shipbuilding: What is the Glasgow effect? Richard Davies explains, and tells the gripping economic story of the Scottish city’s boom and bust. by Trade Talks
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114: US and China Announce a Phase-One Deal: Trump’s USTR provides some details of what has been agreed, including tariff cuts, purchases and structural reforms. by Trade Talks
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124. Is Trade Bad for Women?: Does globalization contribute to the gender wage gap? Beata Javorcik joins to explain one overlooked channel. by Trade Talks
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117. Trump’s Import Tariffs Have Hurt US Exports: New evidence reveals Trump’s import tariffs are contributing to the recent slowdown in US exports. 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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129. Operation Quack Hack: Are China’s medical supplies safe to trade?

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