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Trade Talks, with Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown

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A podcast

about the economics of

trade and policy.

Focus on US-China

What Would a Trump-China Deal Look Like?

The complexities of negotiating with China over intellectual property enforcement, cyber theft, and the forced transfer of technology arising through joint ventures.

(Episode 65)

A US-China Farm Subsidy Fight at the WTO

Not to be overshadowed by the Trump-China trade war, the WTO issues an important legal ruling on Chinese subsidies.

(Episode 74)

Nicholas Lardy on the Chinese Economy

How China's economic development has evolved since 1978, the role of the private sector, the resurgence of state-owned enterprises under President Xi, and why reform today is so hard.

(Episode 70)

Most Popular

Paul Krugman Talks Trade

The Nobel Prize winning economist joined to discuss NAFTA, China, wages, labor, Trump’s trade policy, and more.

(Episode 66)

It’s Fun to Discuss the USMCA—the New NAFTA

Explaining the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement announced on October 1, 2018.

(Episode 57)

Woodward. Trump. Fear. Trade Is Bad.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward chats about trade policy revelations in his new book.

(Episode 58)

Soybeans and the Trade War Fallout

As part of the ongoing US-China trade war, Chinese tariffs targeted soybeans, a major American export. After Soumaya visits some farms in Iowa, Keynes and Bown explain the impact of competition from Argentina and Brazil, as well as the yo-yo’ing of soybean prices during the ongoing conflict.

(Episode 74)

Keynes at an Iowa soybean farm, February 2019.

Brexit Votes for Uncertainty

The rocky departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union and new research on the economic impact that Brexit-related uncertainty has already had.

(Episode 68)

In the Spotlight

81: National Security and Trade – The Fear of Imitation

Mona Pinchis-Paulsen (New York University) joins Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown to discuss the historical origins and tradeoffs of justifying trade restrictions under the threat to national security. Sparked by an April 2019 WTO ruling involving combat between Russia and Ukraine, they explain the key fight within the original team of American negotiators that arose in the 1940s when setting up the International Trade Organization at the close of World War II. They discuss whether today’s Article XXI is 'self-judging' and 'non-justiciable,' they foreshadow conflicts around President Trump’s national security tariffs on steel and aluminum, and they describe implications for the future of the WTO.