Podcast Episodes
Back to Search49: Are Trump's Steel Quotas Worse than His Steel Tariffs?
Keynes and Bown describe how the Trump administration's quotas imposed on steel imports from South Korea, Brazil, and Argentina are different from th…
7 years, 8 months ago
48: Trump Buys the Farmers
Keynes and Bown explain the US government decision to offer up to $12 billion of subsidies to farmers adversely affected by trade retaliation stemmin…
7 years, 8 months ago
47: WTO S.O.S.–Save our System
Keynes and Bown detail an emerging approach for the European Union, Japan, China—and the Trump administration—to resolve the conflict over subsidies,…
7 years, 8 months ago
46: How Do Trump's Tariffs Stack Up Historically?
Keynes and Bown compare President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed to date—on solar panels, washing machines, steel, aluminum, and Chinese imports—with…
7 years, 8 months ago
45: Zeroing: The Biggest WTO Threat You've Never Heard Of
Keynes and Bown explain the outsized importance of "zeroing"—a technical, yet politically controversial method the United States uses to calculate an…
7 years, 8 months ago
44: Brexit Two Years On
Keynes and Bown explain recent developments in the UK-EU trade talks on Britain's departure from the European Union. At the two-year mark after the J…
7 years, 9 months ago
43: Costing Trump's China Tariffs
Keynes and Bown explain some implications of President Trump's plan to impose tariffs on US imports from China starting July 6, 2018, which could esc…
7 years, 9 months ago
42: Trump and Tariff Tweets: It's More Complicated Than That
Bown and Keynes explain the nonreciprocal pattern of tariffs—and nontariff barriers—across countries highlighted by President Trump's tweets and stat…
7 years, 9 months ago
41: Trump and China's "War of Saliva"
Keynes and Bown discuss a variety of Chinese perspectives of the Trump administration's trade policy.
7 years, 9 months ago
40: Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: Trump versus Everyone
Bown and Keynes explain the economic implications of President Trump's decision to apply steel and aluminum trade restrictions on virtually all US tr…
7 years, 9 months ago