Trade Talks
Trade Talks
40: Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: Trump versus Everyone
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Bown and Keynes explain the economic implications of President Trump’s decision to apply steel and aluminum trade restrictions on virtually all US trading partners as of June 1, 2018. Countries have announced their plans to…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
39: Car Crash--Trump Sees More National Security Threats
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Keynes and Bown talk with Kristin Dziczek (Center for Automotive Research) about President Trump’s new investigation into whether imports of autos threaten American national security. They discuss the implications of potential new tariffs for the NAFTA negotiations,…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
38: ZTE, Trump, and China--What's the Fuss?
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Keynes and Bown discuss with Yuan Yang of the Financial Times how the US Commerce Department decision to sanction Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE—and its potential reversal by President Trump—affects the firm’s supply chain and Chinese and American…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
37: Cottoning on to Trade
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Keynes and Bown talk with Professor Claudia Steinwender (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) about her research on the impact of the trans-Atlantic telegraph on trade. New information through the telegraph affected 1860s cotton price differences between…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
36: The Railroads Episode: America, India, and Intranational Trade
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Keynes and Bown discuss with Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) his research on how massive railroad projects—across America in the late 1800s and colonial India in the early 1900s—affected trade costs, market access, intranational…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
35: The Labor of NAFTA
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Bown and Keynes explain controversial elements of the ongoing NAFTA negotiations that relate to jobs, wages, and workers. There are tradeoffs in the new proposals for automobile rules of origin, the enforcement of labor standards…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
34: So You Want To Be a Trade Negotiator
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Bown and Keynes sit down with former acting deputy US Trade Representative Wendy Cutler to learn how to negotiate trade agreements. Wendy shares 25 years of experience balancing domestic politics, while driving hard bargains with…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
33: Trade and Investment Talks: China Wants America's Technology
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Keynes and Bown explain the Chinese economic development strategy at the core of the Trump administration’s Section 301 dispute and latest tariff threats. They discuss Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” industrial policy, how technology gets…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
32: Trump, China, and Tariffs: $3 billion, $50 billion, or $100 billion?
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Keynes and Bown discuss the escalating tariff fight between President Trump and China. They update the status of Trump’s “national security” tariffs on steel and aluminum as well as Beijing’s retaliation over $3 billion of…

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
31: Trade Wars and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff: What Really Happened?
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Keynes and Bown speak with Douglas Irwin (PIIE and Dartmouth College) about popular misconceptions around the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, the Great Depression, and the global trade wars that ensued. They discuss how the…