Former Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Pangestu joins Keynes and Bown in a wide-ranging conversation about trade policy and negotiations in Asia. They chat about Indonesia’s episodes of trade liberalization, corruption, and the benefits of losing a WTO dispute. They discuss her experience negotiating ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) free trade agreements with both India and China, as well as the birth of the RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) idea. They also explain how Indonesia is caught between China and the United States in the ongoing trade war, and the negotiations Indonesia now faces with the Trump administration under the Generalized System of Preferences.
Trade Talks, with Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown
A podcast
about the economics of
trade and policy.
Focus on US-China
Trump-China Negotiating Dramatics and Even More Tariffs
Negotiations break down, new tariffs go into effect June 2019, and Trump proposes a new US farm subsidy and redistribution scheme.
(Episode 85)
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)
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)
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Paul Krugman Talks Trade
The Nobel Prize winning economist joined to discuss NAFTA, China, wages, labor, Trump’s trade policy, and more.
(Episode 66)
Trump-Mexico Trade War Cheat Sheet
Trump declares a national emergency and threatens tariffs on $350 billion of imports from Mexico.
(Episode 88)
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.
Happy Tariffversary
Who is paying for President Trump's tariffs? Reviewing the economic evidence to date on whether it is Americans or foreigners, one year on from the start of the trade war.
(Episode 77)