Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown have a conversation with Ana Swanson from The New York Times about trade and journalism. They discuss encounters relating to steel, aluminum, softwood lumber and lobsters, as well as the surprises along the way, and how to strike a balance between data and anecdotes.
Topic: Trade Policy
Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, outlines his new paper coauthored with Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, âThe New Rules of the Road: A Progressive Approach to Globalization,â on October 13, 2016, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. C. Fred Bergsten (PIIE), Daniel Griswold (George Mason University), and Jennifer A. Hillman (Georgetown Law Center), provided their comments on the opportunities for...
Topics: globalization, trade policy
Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University, presents the Institute's third Annual O. John Olcay Lecture on Ethics and Economics at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on May 25, 2017. He addresses the question “Why, After 200 Years, Can’t Economists Sell Free Trade?” Few issues elicit greater unanimity of opinion among economists, yet the public remains skeptical and may be growing more hostile toward globalization. Blinder provides his thinking on what the public and the...
Topics: trade policy, globalization
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist talk with PIIE Senior Fellow Douglas Irwin about his recent book "Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy" and the role that protectionism played in the US economy during its industrial development of the 19th century. They examine Henry Clay's proposal for an "American system," the Jeffersonian trade embargo of 1807--09, as well as the theoretical arguments for--and the practical arguments...
Topics: PIIE, Trade Policy
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The assay of trade betwixt the countries is a stirring phenomenon in international trade. Rehashing the trend is somehow higher. According to this study an assay made between India and SAARC. An assay is formed around the new bent in India’s business relation with SAARC countries. The South East Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is regional Inter-Governmental Organisation and geo political union in South East Asia. Its member States includes Afganistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,...
Topic: Trade and Trade Policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the program rich countries use to offer lower tariffs to exporters in developing countries. They discuss a variety of programs - the now expired US GSP scheme, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), as well as differences with the European Union's GSP, GSP+ and Everything But Arms (EBA) policies. They speak with Emily Blanchard (Tuck School at Dartmouth College) and...
Topics: Emerging Markets, Trade Policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown talk with PIIE Senior Fellow Caroline Freund about her research on big firms, billionaires, international trade, and economic development. First up is her recent book "Rich People Poor Countries: The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms" and the evidence behind the importance of being big in international trade. They also probe the downside of unproductive wealth, the rise of inefficient behemoths in...
Topics: Emerging Markets, inequality, trade policy
Chad P. Bown cautions the Trump administration that its unconventional trade policies—such as imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum, and over intellectual property—could lead to conflict with some of the United States’ largest trading partners.
Topics: United States, trade policy, disputes
Gary Clyde Hufbauer examines a long history of precedents of presidents invoking various legal statues, particularly those involving war powers, to show that as president Donald Trump could implement his trade agenda unilaterally long before any legislative or judicial challenges occur.
Topics: United States, politics, trade policy
Marcus Noland discusses a newly released PIIE Briefing analyzing the economic pain to the US economy that would occur if Donald Trump were to implement his trade proposals as president. Also discussed are the lost opportunities from Hillary Clintonâs trade stance.
Topics: United States, politics, trade policy
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist discuss the economics of trade policy. This week they examine the impact of international trade on economic activity within developing countries like India, Vietnam and Brazil. They talk with Professor Nina Pavcnik of Dartmouth College about her research on how trade liberalization has impacted workers and firms, what affects their ability to adjust, and the implications for poverty reduction and inequality. They also discuss...
Topics: Emerging Markets, Globalization, Trade Policy
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist survey listeners and conduct interviews from the WTO Ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires, to describe some of the more bizarre - and fascinating - barriers to international trade found in human history. They analyze the economics of policies applied in countries around the world that affect bicycles and skis, the Internet, video cassette recorders and pirated movies, as well as alcohol, chocolate, and tobacco.
Topics: World Trade Organization, Trade Policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown explore the US Department of Commerce findings that imports of steel and aluminum threaten national security and the recommendation that President Trump impose new trade restrictions. They speak with Jennifer Hillman (Georgetown Law) about the trade law in use (Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962), the differences between the proposed tariffs and quotas, the likely costs of such a decision, and the implications for...
Topics: United States, Security, Trade Policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown focus on the Trump administration's approach to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The episode describes US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer's recently articulated positions involving WTO dispute settlement rulings adverse to the United States (e.g., 'zeroing'), a looming crisis in Geneva that threatens the WTOâs independent Appellate Body, and the administration's approach toward 'mercantilist China' - inside or...
Topics: United States, WTO, Trade Policy
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist examine what a no-deal Brexit would look like, or the economic implications if Britain were to split from the European Union without a new trade deal. They talk with Professor Swati Dhingra of the London School of Economics about her research on what reverting to World Trade Organization (WTO) tariffs would mean for the United Kingdom. They also discuss looming nontariff barriers to trade in sectors like pharmaceuticals,...
Topics: European Union, United Kingdom, Trade Policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown speak with Douglas Irwin (PIIE and Dartmouth College) about popular misconceptions around the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, the Great Depression, and the global trade wars that ensued. They discuss how the gold standard, tariffs, quotas, exchange controls, imperial preferences, and bartering all fit into the dismantling of the international trading system in the 1930s. They then put President Trumpâs trade policy actions to...
Topics: United States, Disputes, Protectionism, Trade Policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss President Trumpâs upcoming choice to grant trade protection to a sliver of the US solar manufacturing industry. The episode describes cleavages within the solar industry, including jobs, and the rarely used US Section 201 trade law being deployed. It chronicles the long history of environmental, economic, and trade policy problemsâin the United States, the European Union, and Chinaâbehind the solar panel dispute and...
Topics: United States, Disputes, Manufacturing, Trade Policy
PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist focus this week on the costs of increased uncertainty generated by President Trump's threat to rip up US trade agreements as well as the United Kingdom's Brexit vote to leave the European Union. Professor Nuno Limão of the University of Maryland joins to discuss his recent research on how trade agreements reduce investment uncertainty and provides insight from Portugal's 1986 entry to the European Community, China's 2001 entry...
Topics: United States, Political Economy, Trade Policy
C. Fred Bergsten and Joseph E. Gagnon present their new book, Currency Conflict and Trade Policy: A New Strategy for the United States, published by PIIE, at a launch event on June 6, 2017. Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) provides a congressional perspective on the bookâs arguments regarding the linkages between US currency and trade policy in political practice. The event moderator is former PIIE visiting fellow and current board member, Robert Zoellick, who is a former president of the World...
Topics: currency manipulation, trade policy, United States
Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) discusses âRethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debateâ on September 27, 2016, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. For more information, visit: https://piie.com/events/rethinking-trade-and-reframing-trade-debate
Topics: trade policy, Kevin Brady, United States
Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad Bown (PIIE) focus on the Trump administration's risking a trade war, after the president started a Section 232 investigation into whether steel and aluminum imports are a threat to US national security. The episode describes the controversial law that the president triggered, the international response that included threats of retaliation, and the economic problems of both the underlying Chinese overcapacity as well as the administration's potential trade...
Topics: United States, China, Disputes, Trade Policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown have a wide-ranging conversation with Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) about trade agreements. In Part 2 of this 4-episode conversation, they discuss ways to improve such deals as well as his views on social dumping, labor differences across countries, and inserting labor standards into free trade agreements. The also talk about how enforceable labor standards fit into the original Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement...
Topics: Labor, Free Trade Agreements, Trade Policy
Senior Fellow Jeffrey J. Schott, Research Associate Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs, and Research Analyst Euijin Jung present their new Policy Brief Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the World Trading System on July 14, 2016, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Professor Byung-il Choi of Ewha Womans University discusses the Brief from a Korean perspectiveâand thus from a potential, not current, Trans-Pacific Parternship (TPP) member country view. For more information,...
Topics: Trans-Pacific Partnership, trade policy, Korea
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss the controversy surrounding the US washing machine market and update the solar panels case, in light of President Trump's decision to impose safeguard tariffs under Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974. For washers, they describe the history of US mergers in the industry; earlier US antidumping and countervailing duties imposed on South Korea, Mexico, and China; and decisions by foreign companies to invest in America.
Topics: PIIE, United States, Disputes, Trade Policy
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Topics: TRADE RESTRICTIONS, TRADE POLICY, PROTECTIONISM, ECONOMETRIC MODELS
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Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss the escalating tariff fight between President Trump and China. They update the status of Trump's "national security" tariffs on steel and aluminum as well as Beijing's retaliation over $3 billion of imports. They also analyze Trump's $50 billion Section 301 tariff proposal, China's $50 billion proposed retaliatory response, before turning to Trump's subsequent $100 billion request for more tariffs...
Topics: United States, China, Disputes, Protectionism, Trade Policy
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Topics: TRADE RESTRICTIONS, TRADE POLICY, PROTECTIONISM, ECONOMETRIC MODELS
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Topics: TRADE RESTRICTIONS, TRADE POLICY, PROTECTIONISM, ECONOMETRIC MODELS
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A panel talked about the history of U.S. trade policy and discussed ways to approach current foreign trade. The National History Center in Washington, D.C. hosted this event. Sponsor: National History Center
Topics: History of U.S. Trade Policy, Television Program
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Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown explain developments resulting from President Trump's announcement of new "national security" import tariffs on steel and aluminum. They discuss those countries hit with -- and those excluded from -- the tariffs, the implications for the NAFTA negotiations, and the process for more countries to seek exemption. They describe the European Union's potential response of immediate retaliation and the imposition of its own...
Topics: United States, Security, Commodities, Protectionism, Trade Policy
PIIE Senior Fellow Jeffrey J. Schott presents the findings of the Institute's latest Policy Brief, US Trade Policy Options in the Pacific Basin: Bigger Is Better, on February 16, 2017. C. Fred Bergsten, PIIE senior fellow and director emeritus, and Il SaKong, chairman and CEO of the Institute for Global Economics in Korea, provide their commentary on the report's analysis of the impacts of the new administrationâs policies on trade in the Pacific region. For more information, visit:...
Topics: United States, free trade agreements, trade policy
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown have a wide-ranging conversation with Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) about trade agreements. In Part 1 of this 4-episode conversation, they discuss the purpose of such deals, the gains from easing labor market restrictions, and Daniâs views on inserting provisions into free trade agreements regarding intellectual property rights protection, investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), and rules of origin.
Topics: Labor Disputes, Intellectual Property Rights, Trade Policy
Jeffrey J. Schott assesses the Obama teamâs trade agenda as they prepare for the rising threat of global protectionism.
Topics: trade, protectionism, global trade, trade policy, US trade policy, Obama, Jeffrey J. Schott,...
Lord Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, delivers the Instituteâs 17th Annual Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture on âWorld Trade and Exchange Rates: From the Pax Americana to a Multilateral New Orderâ on May 16, 2017. Lord King, a profound thinker with clarity and a visionary leader at the helm of the Bank of England during the height of the global financial crisis, shares his insights on the challenges to the sustainability of the current system of multilateral cooperation...
Topics: trade policy, United States, currency, multilateral cooperation, globalization
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In this research work, Author focus on the analysis of the trade interests in contemporary political economy. In last time foreign trade policy has been strongly affected by the force of the world economic crisis. Trade distortions revenues and protectionism played important roles in the politics of political parties. What indicates the importance and innovativeness of the research is the presentation of the new aspects of the political economy models of the foreign trade...
Topics: Trade Policy, Public Choice, Liberalism, Protectionism, Autoritarian Regimes
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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue discussed trade policy and taxes at an event hosted by Axios in Washington, DC. The secretary said he hoped to have a tariff mitigation plan in place for American farmers by Labor Day 2018. Sponsor: Axios
Topics: Agriculture Secretary on Tax and Trade Policy, Television Program
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The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a discussion on the future of U.S. trade policy, and particularly trade protection measures proposed by President Trump. Panelists included former trade officials from the Clinton and Obama administrations, and they discussed potential pitfalls of protectionist policies, the role of the U.S. in groups like the World Trade Organization, and President Trump's proposed renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Sponsor:...
Topics: Forum Considers Future of U.S. Trade Policy, Television Program
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Andy Berke, the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee, discussed trade and tax policy and the impact of it on rural cities at an event hosted by Axios in Washington, DC. Sponsor: Axios
Topics: Chattanooga Mayor on Tax and Trade Policy, Television Program
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Topics: Legislative histories, Merchant ships, Cargo preference, Foreign trade policy
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Larry Kudlow spoke to reporters on his second day on the job as White House National Economic Council director. He said he was not concerned about temporary stock market losses, spoke briefly about trade relations with China and the potential for what some in the press and the government have called an impending trade war, and said he thought the U.S. economy will continue to grow over the course of 2018. Sponsor: White House
Topics: Larry Kudlow on Trade Policy and the Economy, Television Program
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Listen to events held at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. The Peterson Institute is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely and objective analysis of, and concrete solutions to, a wide range of international economic problems. It is one of the very few economics think tanks that are widely regarded as "nonpartisan" by the press and...
Topics: economics, international economics, Peterson Institute, trade, trade policy, Fred Bergsten
Soumaya Keynes of The Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown discuss the issues involved in President Trump’s triggering a “Section 301” investigation of China’s unfair treatment of American intellectual property. This special episode covers two questions: What is forced technology transfer, and is it a problem? Is Trump's approach on China the right one?
Topics: trade policy, China, United States, Chad P Bown, Soumaya Keynes, PIIE
Soumaya Keynes of the Economist and PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown introduce a weekly and geeky podcast on developments in international trade and policy. This weekâs episode covers the hostsâ favorite trade (short) stories of the year and their very revealing answers to the question: Why trade? The podcastâs official launch is September 1, 2017. Peterson Perspectives interviews will continue to air along with these new trade-specific episodes of Trade Talks
Topics: Trade Policy, PIIE, Chad Bown, Soumaya Keynes, Peterson Institute for International Economics
On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, PIIE Senior Fellow Chad P. Bown and Soumaya Keynes of The Economist focus on the origins of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT. They speak with the authors of "The Genesis of the GATT" (Cambridge University Press)--Professors Douglas Irwin, Petros Mavroidis, and Alan Sykes--about the gripping lead-up to the signing of the transformative trade agreement on October 30, 1947. The American Smoot-Hawley tariffs, British Imperial...
Topics: WTO, Trade Policy, Chad Bown, Soumaya Keynes, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Listen to events held at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The Peterson Institute is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely and objective analysis of, and concrete solutions to, a wide range of international economic problems. It is one of the very few economics think tanks that are widely regarded as "nonpartisan" by the press and "neutral"...
Topic: economics, international economics, global economy, Peterson Institute, trade, trade policy, Fred...
Barbara Kotschwar explains how a new US-Mexico trade dispute has complicated President Obamaâs efforts to strengthen international economic cooperation.
Topics: United States, Mexico, trade policy, trade dispute, Peterson Institute, Institute for International...
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Peter Navarro gave the opening keynote address at an economic policy conference hosted by the National Association for Business Economics. After his speech he participated in a moderated question-and-answer session with the audience. Most of Mr. Navarro's remarks focused on the trade policy goals of the Trump administration, and he stressed the president's desire to use trade and tax policy to boost overall business growth, in particular in the manufacturing sector. People: Stuart MacKintosh;...
Topics: Peter Navarro Outlines Trump Administration's Trade Policy at Economic Policy Conference,...
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Peter Navarro gave the opening keynote address at an economic policy conference hosted by the National Association for Business Economics. After his speech he participated in a moderated question-and-answer session with the audience. Most of Mr. Navarro's remarks focused on the trade policy goals of the Trump administration, and he stressed the president's desire to use trade and tax policy to boost overall business growth, in particular in the manufacturing sector. People: Stuart MacKintosh;...
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Peter Navarro gave the opening keynote address at an economic policy conference hosted by the National Association for Business Economics. After his speech he participated in a moderated question-and-answer session with the audience. Most of Mr. Navarro's remarks focused on the trade policy goals of the Trump administration, and he stressed the president's desire to use trade and tax policy to boost overall business growth, in particular in the manufacturing sector. People: Stuart MacKintosh;...
Topics: Peter Navarro Outlines Trump Administration's Trade Policy at Economic Policy Conference,...
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Nicholas R. Lardy, analyzing the origins of the dispute with China over tire imports, warns that the fight could imperil future US-China economic and political cooperation.
Topics: China, United States, trade policy, tires, Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute, Institute for...
