Trade Talks
Trade Talks
161. Why sharing patents for COVID-19 medicines is not enough
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Despite the Medicines Patent Pool, COVID-19 treatments remain scarce globally. Prashant Yadav explains what more is needed.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
160. How Putin's war could disrupt global food supplies
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Joe Glauber explains the humanitarian crisis that looms if war cuts wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia. Soumaya Keynes says goodbye.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
159. How Biden and Europe settled Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs
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After years of dispute, the EU agreed to stop retaliating and to limit exports if the US lifted Trump’s national security tariffs.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
158. How America responded to its PPE shortage
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The US reacted to COVID-19 shortfalls of hospital masks, gowns and gloves with unprecedented trade and industrial policy.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
157. Europe’s Trade Policy and Open Strategic Autonomy
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Worried about being bullied by trading partners, the European Union is developing a host of new policy tools.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
156. Tackling climate change with a carbon border adjustment mechanism
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CBAM! The EU proposes phasing out free permits from its emissions trading system and phasing in a carbon tax on some imports.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
155. How trade can break up with paper (it involves blockchain)
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Legally and technologically, paper documents are essential to international trade. How that could change (it involves blockchain).

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
154. Global Britain: How’s that going then?
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A beginner’s guide to the spat over Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol, plus the UK signs a new trade deal with Australia.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
153. Multilateral tax cooperation gets one step closer
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The G7 economies agreed to a potential historic change in how governments tax multinational corporations.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
152. The murky world of export restrictions for COVID-19 vaccines
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COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine inputs are in short supply globally. How the EU, UK, US and India are all limiting exports.