Trade Talks
Episodes
16. Weird Trade Barriers–Or How Trade Talks Help a Cocktail Party
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist survey listeners and conduct interviews from the WTO ministerial meeting in Buenos...
15: Is China a Non-Market Economy? Why the WTO Gets to Decide
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynes and Bown focus on a huge WTO dispute in which China is suing the European Union and the United States over their refusal to treat it as a marke...
14: Trade Talks Tough: Sanctions on North Korea
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown talk with PIIE Senior Fellow Marcus Noland about his research on implementing trad...
13: Export Superstars and Billionaires: When Do Policymakers Need to Worry?
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown talk with PIIE Senior Fellow Caroline Freund about her research on big firms, bill...
12: How to Save a (Pacific) Trade Deal
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of the Economist examine the new Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partners...
11: The Complicated Impact of Trade…on Developing Countries
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of the Economist examine the impact of international trade on economic activity within developing c...
10: What If the UK Crashed into a No-Deal Brexit?
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist examine what a no-deal Brexit would look like, or the economic implications if Bri...
9: Happy 70th GATTiversary–The Origins of Multilateral Trade
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist focus on the origins of the General Agree...
8: NAFTA Time Out–Unsurprisingly Unconventional
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of the Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown focus on the economic tension arising through the ongoing NAFTA—or North America...
7: Tariffs, Subsidies, and Not-So-Friendly Skies
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss an ongoing trade dispute involving large civil aircraft jets, Bombardier a...
6: Uncertainty and Trade Deals–Not Good
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist focus this week on the costs of increased uncertainty generated by President Trump...
5: Solar Tariffs, Clean Energy (and Trump)
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss President Trump's upcoming choice to grant trade protection to a sliver of...
4: Holding the WTO Hostage, Trump Style
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown focus on the Trump administration's approach to the World Trade Organization (WTO)...
3: Nerves of Steel: Waiting for Trump's Trade War
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad Bown (PIIE) focus on the Trump administration's risking a trade war, after the president started a Section 232...
2: Trump Threatens the South Korea-US Trade Deal
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes focus on the South Korea-US free trade agreement (KORUS) and President Donald Trump's unhappiness with it, a...
1: NAFTAnomics: The Economics of Three Big Fights
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss the economics of trade policy. This week they focus on three big fights in...
Special Episode: Trump's Unfair Trade Action against China
18 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss the issues involved in President Trump's triggering a "Section 301" invest...
0: Introduction to the Weekly Podcast
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Soumaya Keynes of the Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown introduce a weekly and geeky podcast on developments in international trade and po...