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Watch or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Marking the one year anniversary of The Friday Exchange, our trade insiders open up with personal reflections on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and the extraordinary international solidarity they witnessed while serving in and around USTR. They then turn to another turbulent week in trade, as Canada’s retaliatory tariffs took…
The WTO published its 2026 Annual Report, providing a comprehensive account of the organization’s activities in 2025 and the early part of 2026. The Report looks back at recent key events, such as the 14th Ministerial Conference in March 2026, and describes the WTO’s work in addressing the challenges and opportunities facing world trade. Message…
The macro conditions that cushioned the first trade war no longer exist, and that could determine how the latest salvo plays out. Donald Trump’s trade war — unleashed in his first administration but renewed with enhanced fury at the outset of his second administration — threatens the rules-based international trading system built in the wake…
Watch or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. This week, our podcasters jump right in on the U.S.-Canada tariff standoff, as Prime Minister Carney’s retaliatory tariff list heads toward September 8th and the panel weighs in on contradictory political messaging coming out of the Trump Administration. Our panelists then turn to the G20 finance ministers meeting in Asheville,…
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…
