49: Are Trump's Steel Quotas Worse than His Steel Tariffs?
Keynes and Bown describe how the Trump administration's quotas imposed on steel imports from South Korea, Brazil, and Argentina are different from the simple application of tariffs. They speak with Am...
1 Aug 201820min
48: Trump Buys the Farmers
Keynes and Bown explain the US government decision to offer up to $12 billion of subsidies to farmers adversely affected by trade retaliation stemming from President Trump's tariffs on steel, aluminum...
27 Jul 201826min
47: WTO S.O.S.–Save our System
Keynes and Bown detail an emerging approach for the European Union, Japan, China—and the Trump administration—to resolve the conflict over subsidies, one of the most pressing challenges confronting th...
21 Jul 201817min
46: How Do Trump's Tariffs Stack Up Historically?
Keynes and Bown compare President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed to date—on solar panels, washing machines, steel, aluminum, and Chinese imports—with other major American protectionist episodes. They ...
13 Jul 201819min
45: Zeroing: The Biggest WTO Threat You've Never Heard Of
Keynes and Bown explain the outsized importance of "zeroing"—a technical, yet politically controversial method the United States uses to calculate antidumping tariffs. They speak to Thomas Prusa (Rutg...
3 Jul 201822min
44: Brexit Two Years On
Keynes and Bown explain recent developments in the UK-EU trade talks on Britain's departure from the European Union. At the two-year mark after the June 23, 2016 Leave referendum, they speak to Anand ...
28 Jun 201823min
43: Costing Trump's China Tariffs
Keynes and Bown explain some implications of President Trump's plan to impose tariffs on US imports from China starting July 6, 2018, which could escalate to cover $450 billion of American imports. Th...
22 Jun 201817min
42: Trump and Tariff Tweets: It's More Complicated Than That
Bown and Keynes explain the nonreciprocal pattern of tariffs—and nontariff barriers—across countries highlighted by President Trump's tweets and statements about high levels of tariff protection recei...
15 Jun 201818min
