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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...
In 2025, we wrote about the potential impact of President Trump’s tariffs on more than 30 sub-Saharan African countries that had enjoyed duty-free treatment under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for 25 years. We concluded that because only a handful of AGOA countries exported significantly to the US market, and many key exports...
Jorge Arbache | Forum on Trade , Enviroment, & the SDG’s (TESS) The industrial transition is moving too slowly not because the world lacks ideas, technologies, or capital, but because too many low-carbon projects cannot secure credible demand. Renewable-rich developing economies can produce green iron, low-carbon aluminium, sustainable aviation fuels, fertilizers, and other inputs with...
When the US imposed sweeping tariff increases in 2025, most economic forecasters predicted a sharp rise in consumer prices and significant import disruption. Instead, retail prices rose modestly and import-dependent sectors held up. This column uses data for the 50 largest US trading partners to show that foreign exporters absorbed roughly 40–50% of the 2025...
