Trade Talks
Trade Talks
167. Will new US tax credits remake electric vehicle supply chains?
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America’s new EV subsidies have some carmakers upset. Others are head scratching. Can supply chains diversify away from China?

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
166. Biden’s new Indo-Pacific talks vs. TPP
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America’s last attempt at trade talks with countries in the region ended badly. How Biden’s IPEF approach is different.

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
165. The global minimum tax got left behind. What’s next?
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The Inflation Reduction Act omits the key global minimum corporate tax agreed to by over 135 countries. Will cooperation still happen?

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
164. Why a notorious banana company spared workers in Costa Rica
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For decades, United Fruit Company exploited banana workers across its Latin American plantations, except in Costa Rica. Why?

Trade Talks
Trade Talks
163. How poorer Americans ended up paying for US tariffs.
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From fashion to forks to fishing reels, how US trade negotiations starting in the 1930s resulted in regressive import duties today.

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Trade Talks
162. Poor countries could once enforce WTO trade. That is now at risk.
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The Advisory Centre on WTO Law made trade enforcement possible for poor countries. The Appellate Body crisis put that under threat.

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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.