Keynes and Bown discuss the US government report and economic impact assessment of the potential NAFTA replacement.
Mona Pinchis-Paulsen joins to discuss the origins and history of using national security threats to justify trade restrictions.
Keynes and Bown explain how a tiny part of US antidumping tariff calculations threatens the entire trading system.
Ernesto Zedillo joins to discuss 40 years of Mexico’s trade, the impact of import substitution policies, NAFTA, and the USMCA.
Kimberly Clausing joins Keynes and Bown to discuss today’s economic and policy challenges in taxing multinational companies.
Keynes and Bown discuss new research on the economics and politics behind President Trump’s tariffs and the resulting retaliation.
The Trump administration pulled India and Turkey from the US Generalized System of Preference, a program that offers zero tariffs to imports from poor countries. Keynes and Bown explain the decision and how it fits into a broader battle between rich and poor countries around special and differential treatment and how it is holding up progress on WTO negotiations.
Not to be overshadowed by the Trump-China trade war, the WTO issues an important legal ruling on Chinese subsidies. Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown describe how the Americans had challenged Chinese payments to farmers of corn, wheat and rice, as well as implications of the WTO ruling for US-China trade relations and the multilateral system.
Keynes and Bown replay their November 2017 interview with Marcus Noland about one of the most closed economies in the world.
Keynes and Bown explain the upheaval in American and global soybean markets stemming from the US-China trade conflict.