Trade Talks
Trade Talks
187. Industrial policy and the rise of Romania’s Silicon Valley
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How a 2001 income tax break for Romanian software programmers helped transform the country’s information technology sector.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
186. How US lead regulations hurt Mexican babies
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Higher US lead standards in 2009 resulted in more production and pollution from Mexican plants. Nearby infants and kids suffered.

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Trade Talks
185. The historic collapse of Switzerland’s watch industry
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New quartz technology and competition from Japan devastated the dominant Swiss watch industry of the 1970s. What happened next?

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Trade Talks
184. The US-EU fights over electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act
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EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be over, but other conflicts remain.

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Trade Talks
183. How the United States cleaned up container ship pollution
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In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping industry’s response offers lessons for other countries.

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Trade Talks
182. Is China’s industrial policy working?
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The “Made in China 2025” subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. But have they worked?

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Trade Talks
181. US-China trade war fallout: This is what decoupling looks like
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How do we reconcile “record-level” US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between the two economies?

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Trade Talks
180. The WTO is in trouble. Econ 101 to the rescue?
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How understanding the WTO’s past can help foster its revival – including for policy challenges like climate and China’s non-market economy.

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Trade Talks
179. Why Taiwan restricts high-tech investment into China
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For decades, Taiwan has limited how and how much its tech firms like TSMC could invest in mainland China. Are there lessons for the United States?

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Trade Talks
178. Why sanctions to stop Russian gas pipelines backfired
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US sanctions on European allies repeatedly failed to stop Russian gas pipelines, harmed transatlantic ties, and undermined US policy.