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
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
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
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
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.
Trade Talks
151. Container shipping costs are through the roof. Who’s paying?
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Companies and regulators have begun to worry about the spike in container shipping costs and pandemic-related trade disruptions.
Trade Talks
150. Is the WTO making it harder to end the pandemic?
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India, South Africa, and more than 50 other countries propose changing WTO rules for vaccines and other medical supplies.
Trade Talks
149. Everyone Loves (or Hates) Buy America
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President Biden’s first trade action was to tighten rules on what imports the US government can buy.
Trade Talks
148. The EU’s new trade policy, with Sabine Weyand of DG Trade
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Sabine Weyand joins to discuss EU trade policy, transatlantic cooperation and conflict, China, forced labor, WTO, climate and more.
Trade Talks
147. What's in the new EU-UK trade deal? Brexperts explain
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The EU and UK announce their long-awaited trade agreement formalizing Brexit. What is covered, and what is still to be negotiated.