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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…
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…
