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WITA’s Intensive Trade Seminar (ITS) has been a cornerstone program, educating government officials, private sector professionals, and the public on how to navigate the Washington and international trade policy landscape.
Former trade negotiators unpack the week’s biggest trade developments in our weekly Friday Exchange Podcast.
WITA events bring together trade professionals, policymakers, diplomats, and business leaders to discuss the most pressing issues shaping global trade policy.
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Big structural changes in U.S. trade policy often require years of negotiations and congressional approval. The original North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took 14 months to negotiate and another roughly 16 months to be ratified and enacted. Completion of the follow-on agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), was roughly three years in the making….
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…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada is getting personal for American farmers. After trade talks between the two longtime allies fell apart in mid-August 2026, Trump imposed 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports worth roughly US$20 billion (CAD$27 billion). Canada responded on Aug. 25, 2026, by announcing its own plan to put…
Canada is the first U.S. ally to absorb tariff pain rather than settle. CFR’s Brad W. Setser explains what the breakdown costs both economies—and why other countries are likely watching the fallout closely. Trade talks between the United States and Canada collapsed last week, clearing the way for the Trump administration to impose new tariffs…
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…
