October 3, 2021
Joel Trachtman, a leading scholar of of international trade law, discusses how national and international legal systems impact trade between nations.
September 24, 2021
Countries benefit from increasing international trade and financial flows. But interconnectedness can make them vulnerable to economic shocks originating abroad.
August 29, 2021
Michael Klein (EconoFact), and Kadee Russ (UC Davis) discuss the current landscape of international trade, its winners and losers, and trade policies.
August 1, 2021
Paul Krugman joins Michael Klein for a discussion on globalization, trade and industrial policy, and protectionism and tariffs.
June 9, 2021
The market for shipping services can influence trade flows, the products that countries sell, and how price shocks reverberate through trade.
June 7, 2021
Doug Irwin joins Michael Klein on EconoFact Chats this week to discuss how ideas about free trade have changed over the last 250 years.
February 6, 2020
The 2018 tariffs raised domestic steel prices, putting downstream U.S. manufacturing firms at a disadvantage relative to foreign competition.
January 28, 2020
There is room for some reasonable amendments to the WTO’s dispute settlement and to rules relating to developing countries. Net benefits are unclear.
January 15, 2020
U.S. agricultural exports to China fell from 2017 to 2018 and remained depressed in 2019. The government provided unprecedented levels of support to farmers.