HeyJaredWITA's Friday Exchange
Former Trade Negotiators Discuss This Week’s Tariff and Trade Developments
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Ep 61: A Truck-Sized Loophole: Russia Tariff Bill; China; Excess Capacity 301s; Carney's EU Pivot (opens the original)
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This week's episode leads with the Russia sanctions bill, which grants new tariff authority to the President. Then our panelists turn to the delayed structural excess capacity Section 301s and President Xi's planned visit to Washington next week. Our trade insiders also weigh whether artificial intelligence could become a genuine topic between the United States and China at the summit. The panel closes on Prime Minister Carney's visit to the EU; the UN General Assembly; and Brazil's upcoming ele
Ep 60: Pushing Our Partners Closer — Canada’s Retaliation and the World Trading On (opens the original)
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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 effect, prompting a United States response with another round of counter-retaliation. They touch on the proposed use of Section 338, the escalating U.S.-Canada dispute, Prim
Ep 59: A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action Please: Canada, China, and Tariff Politics (opens the original)
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Featured Speakers: Dawn Shackleford, President at Looking Glass Trade, LLC; former Executive Director for Trade Agreements Policy & Negotiations, Department of Commerce; former Assistant USTR for WTO & Multilateral Affairs Ed Gresser, Vice President & Director for Trade & Global Markets, Progressive Policy Institute; former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Policy and Economics - author of the Trade Fact of the Week Chris Padilla, Senior Advisor, Brunswick Group; former Under Secreta
Ep 58: A Deal Within Reach, Until It Wasn’t: Why the U.S.-Canada Deal Collapsed (opens the original)
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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 Carney's decision and the three major sticking points of heavy trucks, French-language protections, and coordination on China. They consider what Canada'
Ep 57: Everything Everywhere All at Once: Canada, Mexico, and What’s Next with the 301s? (opens the original)
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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 the removal of retaliation on autos and liquor. They weigh whether it's a win-win or a negotiating ploy to declare victory before the deal is finalized; whether Prime Minister Carney can sell it to the premiers; and w
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