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.

Trade Talks
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.

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.