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Watch or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. In this week’s episode, our trade insiders unpack the collapse of a U.S.-Canada deal, tracing a week that moved from Smoot-Hawley-level tariffs and calibrated Canadian retaliation to Ambassador Greer’s French-language olive branch and Prime Minister Carney’s decision to walk away at the eleventh hour. The panel examines the politics surrounding…
Christopher Sands is Director of the Center for U.S.-Canada Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) The new phase in the U.S.-Canada trade war came like bankruptcy to Mike Campbell, a character in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: gradually, then suddenly. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on…
Countries across the Asia Pacific have been hit with a bewildering array of tariffs since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025. Negotiations for tariff reductions have differed based on military realities and alliance politics, but many countries have largely acquiesced. The European Union set this precedent by accepting the…
Watch or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. With a deadline approaching on the Smoot Hawley Section 338 tariffs threatening $20 billion in Canadian imports, our trade insiders unpack a deal no one has seen yet, from what relief on autos, aluminum, steel, and lumber might look like to what the US may have secured on dairy and…
Countries in the Global South increasingly view President Trump’s “America First” foreign economic policies as both a coercive force and a catalyst for greater economic autonomy. For more than half a century, economic development in Latin America, Africa, and parts of Asia has been constrained by austerity conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, by punitive debt collection policies pursued by commercial banks and hedge funds backed by U.S. law, and by trade deals that stunt their ability to develop economically. In that respect, Trump’s tariffs are only an intensification of terms of engagement that do severe damage to developing nations.
Watch or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Former Trade Negotiators Discuss This Week’s Tariff Trade Developments. No one understands the dynamics with key U.S. trading partners better than the people who led these kinds of difficult trade negotiations for the United States. Panelists will update our viewers on the trade policy announcements, what remains undone; and what…
Watch or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Former Trade Negotiators Discuss This Week’s Tariff Trade Developments. On this week’s episode of WITA’s Friday Exchange, our trade insiders discussed the Trump administration’s new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran and its implications for global trade, energy markets, and supply chains. They also examined the future of the Strait…
