Evan Smith

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And two is that as these trade policies are increasingly focused on the goods and their provenance, I'm sure we'll get to that in conversation, but like network shape, supply chain network is kind of the dimension of trade analysis now.

Um, it becomes imperative to have a sense of product identity.

So instead of just like transaction by transaction by transaction at the border, it's groundhog day.

And like, I've never seen this before.

I have to reason about, you know, whether this is the right customs codes and the right duties and is did the food and drug administration get their permit to release these pharmaceuticals, whatever.

Um, we ought to just have a library of trusted goods in the same way that we have a register of trusted travelers.

And that's what we're building.

So an Altona product passport for the U.S.

government is becoming a library of known and continuously monitored and vetted goods and their production pathways where you can, in one shot, you can look at the compliance attributes.

You can look at the national security dimensions of it.

You can look at the safety dimensions of it.

You can look at the tariff dimensions of it.

and have that all continuously reviewed and monitored.

And the benefit to the importer is like, do it once.

I remember going through the airport in the early days of like trusted traveler programs and thinking there's no way in hell I'm gonna give the government any information about my travel, my personal life, any of that, that I don't have to.

And then you kind of see the benefit of the security facilitation, the travel facilitation.

And it's like, well, I think I'll make that trade.

And that's where we're enabling the private sector to engage in a new way with government agencies around the world.

So we're doing this now at scale in the United States.

We're doing it at scale in the context of defense procurement.

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