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Trade Talks

Summary: 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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Podcasts:

 186. How US lead regulations hurt Mexican babies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:55

Higher US lead standards in 2009 resulted in more production and pollution from Mexican plants. Nearby infants and kids suffered.

 185. The historic collapse of Switzerland’s watch industry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:36

New quartz technology and competition from Japan devastated the dominant Swiss watch industry of the 1970s. What happened next?

 184. The US-EU fights over electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:28

EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be over, but other conflicts remain.

 183. How the United States cleaned up container ship pollution | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:36

In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping industry’s response offers lessons for other countries.

 182. Is China’s industrial policy working? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:08

The “Made in China 2025” subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. But have they worked?

 181. US-China trade war fallout: This is what decoupling looks like | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:43

How do we reconcile “record-level” US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between the two economies?

 180. The WTO is in trouble. Econ 101 to the rescue? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:10:41

How understanding the WTO’s past can help foster its revival – including for policy challenges like climate and China’s non-market economy.

 179. Why Taiwan restricts high-tech investment into China | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:40

For decades, Taiwan has limited how and how much its tech firms like TSMC could invest in mainland China. Are there lessons for the United States?

 178. Why sanctions to stop Russian gas pipelines backfired | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

US sanctions on European allies repeatedly failed to stop Russian gas pipelines, harmed transatlantic ties, and undermined US policy.

 178. Why sanctions to stop Russian gas pipelines backfired | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:00

US sanctions on European allies repeatedly failed to stop Russian gas pipelines, harmed transatlantic ties, and undermined US policy.

 177. How the Rana Plaza factory collapse changed global supply chains | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

New research examines how NGOs, consumers, and major retailers responded to the outrage following the 2013 tragedy in Bangladesh.

 177. How the Rana Plaza factory collapse changed global supply chains | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:12

New research examines how NGOs, consumers, and major retailers responded to the outrage following the 2013 tragedy in Bangladesh.

 176. The Cold War scandal over export controls | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

The leakage of submarine technology to the Soviet Union in the 1980s has lessons for the limits to and coordination of allies’ export controls today.

 176. The Cold War scandal over export controls | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:36

The leakage of submarine technology to the Soviet Union in the 1980s has lessons for the limits to and coordination of allies’ export controls today.

 175. The dreaded WTO ruling on Trump’s national security tariffs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

The WTO ruled against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, dragging the organization into thorny national security issues.

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