Podcast
Trade Talks
Hosted by Peterson Institute for International Economics · EN
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.
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201. Trade Talks is back. And so is President Trump.
Feb 8, 202500:29:50Tap to summarizeTariffs from the new President call for an emergency relaunch of the longstanding trade podcast. Aime Williams (Financial Times) joins to explain what happened with Canada, Mexico, and China (29:50). Read more…
Transcribe →And that is all for Trade Talks
Jan 30, 202400:10:51Tap to summarizeGoodbye for now, as old friend Soumaya Keynes joins Chad Bown to discuss why and what comes next.
Transcribe →200. Has the USMCA improved working conditions in Mexico?
Dec 19, 202300:46:28Tap to summarizeThe USMCA was supposed to prevent workers from being mistreated at Mexican factories. How is it working so far?
Transcribe →199. How trade economists busted corruption at the port
Dec 10, 202300:37:11Tap to summarizeWhen customs officials in Madagascar cheated their country out of tax revenues, economists caught them. But the fight is not over yet.
Transcribe →198. Inside Washington’s lobbying industry
Dec 3, 202300:33:02Tap to summarizeWhat we know about the US lobbying industry and how it influences trade and other types of economic policy.
Transcribe →197. Moving workers across Europe
Nov 26, 202300:45:29Tap to summarizeHow the European Union’s controversial “posting” policy impacted the movement of workers as well as local communities across the continent.
Transcribe →196. How multinationals avoid taxes through technology licensing
Nov 19, 202300:28:40Tap to summarizeCompanies can avoid taxes by moving profits from IP royalties offshore. What would happen if that changed?
Transcribe →195. How did Canadian workers adjust so well to US trade?
Nov 12, 202300:24:07Tap to summarizeCanadian workers faced new competition after the sudden free trade agreement with the US in 1989. Why were they able to adjust so successfully?
Transcribe →194. Industrial policy detectives: China’s subsidies for shipbuilding
Nov 5, 202300:40:59Tap to summarizeA new way to measure China’s subsidies for shipbuilding reveals how much they transformed the industry for the country and world.
Transcribe →193. Did multinationals enforce Bangladesh’s new labor law?
Oct 29, 202300:42:14Tap to summarizeFollowing the Rana Plaza factory collapse, foreign companies promised to enforce Bangladesh’s new labor law. What happened next?
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