Beste Rethinking Trade podcasts (2024)

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BREAKING NEWS: Understanding the New Biden Tariffs on EVs 13:51

3d ago13:51

13:51

In this special breaking news episode of Rethinking Trade, Lori Wallach breaks down President Biden's new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and solar panels. Tune in to understand the implications of these tariffs, and the rationale behind them. Spoiler: these measures are crucial for combating unfair trade practices and ensuring supply chain re…

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The 30 Years Trade War: A Conversation with Arthur Stamoulis 19:27

6d ago19:27

19:27

Our latest Rethinking Trade podcast episode is out now, and it's a special one. Lori Wallach sits down with Arthur Stamoulis, the Executive Director of Citizens Trade Campaign and Trade Justice Education Fund, to talk the past, present, and future of thetrade justice movement in the United States. Lori and Arthur take us on a speedy tour through th…

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BREAKING NEWS: De Minimis Bill Markup in House Ways and Means Committee 9:46

27d ago9:46

9:46

In our latest breaking news segment for Rethinking Trade, Lori Wallach discusses the latest developments on Capitol Hill. De minimis is a trade loophole that we've discussed often on the podcast, and why it's important to close it. But what happened in the House Ways and Means markup, and to Rep. Blumenauer's bipartisan de minimis bill? Lori gives …

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BREAKING NEWS: China's WTO Complaint Against the U.S. on Electric-Vehicle Subsidies 9:04

2M ago9:04

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BREAKING NEWS: China's WTO Complaint Against the U.S. on Electric-Vehicle Subsidies. Lori gives background, and tells you what it means.

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Back from Abu Dhabi: Inside the WTO Biannual Ministerial Meeting 26:25

2M ago26:25

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In our latest episode of Rethinking Trade, we’re talking about the major trade event of the year -- the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It’s a major global biennial meeting where cabinet-level officials, like U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, get together to set the agenda for the international trade and co…

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Don't Be Terrified of Tariffs (with Scott Paul of AAM) 18:39

3M ago18:39

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Tariffs are in the news again! Why does that term generate such vitriol from some quarters and joy from others?! This week, we explore that question with Scott Paul, the President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Scott and host Lori Wallach discuss how increasingly Democrats and Republicans alike now view tariffs as just another policy t…

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Death by Express Delivery: De Minimis Trade Scandal Grows 19:40

4M ago19:40

19:40

Our latest episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast offers an urgent update about the de minimis loophole that we first discussed in 2022. It has gotten much worse.E-commerce sites like Amazon, Shein and Temu use this loophole to skirt U.S. Customs and safety inspections and dodge all taxes and trade-cheating enforcement sanctions. Uyghur forced-lab…

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Out with the Old: ISDS & Charting a New Future with Senator Warren and Prof. Stiglitz 24:44

5M ago24:44

24:44

In our latest episode, we have two very special guests - voices you will know - talking about a corporate trade power tool that definitely should be on the “out with the old” list! We’re talking about Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) and its implications for our economies and democracies. First, a quick refresher: What is ISDS? ISDS grants …

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PART TWO: The AI Bill of Rights and Its Trade Implications - 25:44

6M ago25:44

25:44

Welcome back to the Rethinking Trade podcast. Today we bring you the second half of our conversation with Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Suresh co-authored the Biden administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, and is a leading national expert on AI oversight. With the imminent Biden Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence setting binding U.…

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PART ONE: Unraveling AI Risks and Benefits (or Get Smart on AI featuring HAL 9000) 21:17

7M ago21:17

21:17

Greetings from DC! OK, hope all you 2001: A Space Odyssey fans got a chuckle and no HAL9000 is not joining this edition of the podcast! We have a much better guest, Suresh Venkatasubramanian who co-authored the Biden administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. We've all seen Artificial Intelligence or "AI" making headlines recently, and it…

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MINI-EPISODE: The UAW Strike Story Not on the News with Larry Cohen 2:05

7M ago2:05

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Once you've finished listening to our new episode with Larry Cohen, check out this mini-episode as he discusses the UAW strike. ----- We're thrilled to present our latest episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast. Lori is joined by Larry Cohen, former President of the Communication Workers of America, for a guided tour of the United Auto Workers (UAW…

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The UAW Strike Story Not on the News with Larry Cohen 25:21

7M ago25:21

25:21

We're thrilled to present our latest episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast. Lori is joined by Larry Cohen, former President of the Communication Workers of America, for a guided tour of the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. (Spoiler alert: There’s a lot more about this strike and how it could impact all of us than most of us know!) Larry brings h…

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The DMA, DSA, EU, AI and You 36:21

8M ago36:21

36:21

In the latest episode of Rethinking Trade, our guests unpack the specific policies safeguarding Europeans’ privacy, busting Big Tech monopolies, and banning the most risky uses if AI. Yup, all of the policies Big Tech has managed to evade here so far… We’re joined by: Calli Schroeder, Senior Counsel and Global Privacy Counsel at the Electronic Priv…

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Airlines Offshoring Plane Maintenance?! 24:17

1+ y ago24:17

24:17

If you thought the air travel fiasco could not get worse, consider the scary news that airlines are offshoring the maintenance work needed to keep planes safe. It’s the same greedy cost-cutting behind the outdated computer systems and gutted airline staffing that is causing the epic air travel meltdowns upending millions of peoples’ lives. In the r…

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Shocker or Not: End China Trade Status Says Bipartisan Commission 24:47

1+ y ago24:47

24:47

Shock waves were sent through Washington, D.C.’s many trade wonks when the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission gave a unanimous bipartisan recommendation that Congress consider ending China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR). Opponents of China PNTR were trashed as idiots, protectionists and doom mongers during a brutal 2000 U.S. nat…

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EVs and Solar: What’s with the Rage About US Joining Fight Against Climate Chaos? 27:49

1+ y ago27:49

27:49

The U.S. finally is getting its act together on climate with big new tax credits for people who buy electric vehicles (EVS) and go solar and incentives for companies to do invest in green production. So why are European and Asian governments steaming mad at us and screaming “trade barrier!!” in numerous languages, instead of cheering our better-lat…

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Factory Towns Can Save Democracy & Democrats Alike 26:15

1+ y ago26:15

26:15

Every election is THE most important in our lifetimes, except the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential actually are. How have we come to this crisis of democracy? A team of data scientists, opinion researchers, and strategists spent a year studying the two-time Obama voters who then elected Trump in 2020 and their shattered communities. The resultin…

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Treat IPEF with Sunlight To Avoid Harm 16:20

1+ y ago16:20

16:20

Your doctor’s not at fault if you don’t know about IPEF. It’s not a new virus. But it could harm billions of people. Or not. IPEF = Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. Setting rules for 40% of the world’s economy is the goal of this recently-launched “trade” negotiation. With the public and Congress locked out so far, few people even know about these …

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Shady COVID Deal: WTO’s Midnight Scandal 30:28

2y ago30:28

30:28

After two years of pandemic and 15 million dead, how did the first big global WTO summit end with WTO intellectual property barriers still blocking global access to COVID meds? This episode exposes how a sham text gavelled through in the middle of the night and produced a worse-than-nothing outcome only Big Pharma can love. How could this happen gi…

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De Minimis: Amazon’s Big Little Secret 22:59

2y ago22:59

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On this episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach we’ll expose Amazon’s big little secret — a loophole which allows Amazon and other online giants to import billions of dollars in uninspected, unsafe, tax-dodging goods from China into the United States every year. Only Uzbekistan has a bigger “de minimis” loophole, which is the technical name f…

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Drugs, COVID, the WTO and a Leaked Text 22:41

2y ago22:41

22:41

In this episode, Lori talks with two trailblazing attorneys: Fatima Hassan at Cape Town’s Health Justice Initiative, South Africa and Sangeeta Shashikant with the global Third World Network. They discuss why after 18 months, there still is no deal to waive the WTO intellectual property rules blocking global access to COVID vaccines, treatments and …

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WTF? WTO Still Blocking End to the Pandemic 20:47

2+ y ago20:47

20:47

In this episode, Lori talks with a leading public health expert about how we could END the pandemic and how World Trade Organization monopolies for Big Pharma are blocking that. Health GAP director Asia Russell, who helped bust Big Pharma monopolies to get HIV-AIDS meds to people worldwide, lays out the current COVID situation worldwide and what ac…

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MC12, Part 2: Still No COVID Waiver, But WTO Inks Services Deregulation Deal 15:03

2+ y ago15:03

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In Part 1 we discussed some of the big issues at stake at the World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial conference, which was scheduled to take place last week in Geneva. That meeting, however, was postponed after the introduction of travel restrictions related to the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Ironically, WTO countries enacting the waiver to g…

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MC12, Part 1: Will Big Pharma and Big Tech Win at Next Week’s WTO Ministerial? 15:28

2+ y ago15:28

15:28

Will the WTO get out of the way of global production of COVID-19 vaccines and meds so we can end this pandemic? Whether Big Pharma or humankind will win is the biggest question as the WTO’s major biennial ministerial meeting starts the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. But Big Tech also has a play… More than 120 countries support waiving some of the WTO …

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A New U.S. Approach to the WTO? 14:08

2+ y ago14:08

14:08

U.S. Trade Representative, Katherine Tai’s recent speech about the World Trade Organization was shocking. Why? Because she openly and frankly discussed the yawning gap between the WTO’s expansive rules and what is right and good for people and the planet. And she made clear that the rules of the global commerce agency need a major redo. That sort o…

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Apple & Google Seek U.S. Trade Attack on Anti-Monopoly Law 13:44

2+ y ago13:44

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Right now, Apple and Google are lobbying the U.S. government to attack South Korean anti-monopoly policies. They claim that a recently passed Korean law requiring app stores to allow consumers to use diverse payment systems violates the US-Korea trade deal. Big Tech corporations want to hijack trade pacts to outlaw as a “barrier to trade” anti-trus…

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President Biden Could End the COVID Pandemic at This Week’s UN Summit - Will He? 19:53

2+ y ago19:53

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Getting the world vaccinated and ending the pandemic is a political choice: World leaders have the medical, technical and financial capacity. To produce enough vaccines involves three clear steps: getting intellectual property monopoly barriers out of the way through a temporary WTO TRIPS waiver, technology transfer through sharing the recipes, and…

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Labor Day Special: An Historic Vote in a Mexican Auto Plant 18:21

2+ y ago18:21

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On August 19th, workers at the massive General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico participated in an historic vote that ousted the corrupt and undemocratic protection union that had long controlled labor relations there. The effort to win such a vote was made possible by the labor rules and Rapid Response enforcement mechanism of the USMCA trade deal. I…

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Hyperglobalization, COVID and Failed Supply Chains: Now What? 18:35

2+ y ago18:35

18:35

In our very first episode, we looked at how corporate-led globalization has fueled shortages in our medical supply-chains and limited our ability to fight COVID-19 Today, we catch everyone up on the latest, discussing two Biden-Harris Administration initiatives aimed at addressing this mess -- a targeted supply chain-review and an executive order o…

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U.S. Inaction is Enabling COVID-19 Variants to Spread 17:15

3y ago17:15

17:15

The world celebrated when President Biden announced the U.S. would support a temporary waiver of World Trade Organization “TRIPS” intellectual property barriers to boost global production of COVID-19 vaccines. But months later, Big Pharma’s monopolies remain. The administration has failed to deliver on the waiver or to get vaccine makers to share t…

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NAFTA Keystone XL Pipeline $15B ISDS Attack 13:04

3y ago13:04

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Within hours of taking office, President Biden revoked the permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The project, which would worsen the climate crisis, also posed major health and safety risks to indigenous people whose land it crossed. Now the Canadian corporation that wanted to build the pipeline is using a NAFTA Investor-State Dispute …

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The USMCA: A Year in Review 20:23

3y ago20:23

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On July 1, 2020, following a lengthy campaign by unions, civil society groups and congressional Democrats to win key improvements, the revised North American Free Trade Agreement, or United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA), went into effect. Unlike the original NAFTA, the USMCA requires its signatory countries to respect workers’ rights. And …

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The Fight for Workers’ Rights in North America: Big Developments Under the Revised NAFTA 50:37

3y ago50:37

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This May 27th webinar “The Fight for Workers’ Rights in North America: Major Recent Developments Under the Revised NAFTA,” featured Mexican labor leader Susana Prieto Terrazas (Sindicato Nacional Independiente de Trabajadores de Industrias y de Servicios), Ben Davis (United Steelworkers), Rachel Micah-Jones (Centro de los Derechos del Migrante) and…

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Emergency COVID-19 TRIPS Waiver: With U.S. Now Supporting, What’s Next? 17:01

3y ago17:01

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On May 5th, the Biden administration announced its support for an emergency COVID-19 waiver of “TRIPS” intellectual property barriers at the World Trade Organization. As we’ve detailed in previous episodes, 100 mainly developing countries have pushed for a TRIPS waiver to facilitate more production of COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments around …

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NTE: The Corporate Seek-And-Destroy List that Guides U.S. Trade Policy 13:13

3y ago13:13

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The National Trade Estimates report is an annual wish list of other countries’ laws, policies and practices that corporations want labeled as “trade barriers,” in hopes that the U.S. government will turn their elimination into policy goals. Like our trade agreements, however, this seek-and-destroy list of so-called trade-barriers is largely not abo…

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Deep Dive: How WTO Rules Protect Big Pharma Profits 15:48

3y ago15:48

15:48

Millions of people around the world may not get COVID-19 vaccines until as late as 2024 due to World Trade Organization rules that protect medicine monopolies for the Big Pharma giants. What do these WTO rules require? How do they implicate access to essential medicines? How do countries escape these WTO-imposed barriers that protect corporate prof…

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Will Biden Build Back Green, or Import Green? 13:41

3y ago13:41

13:41

Our tax dollars should support green jobs with fair wages, not a global race to the bottom that exploits workers and poisons the environment. But thanks to corporate-rigged trade policies, “Buy American” government purchasing requirements are waived to include purchases from 60 other countries. This means our tax dollars are exported instead of bei…

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LIVE: U.S. Must Lift WTO Block on COVID-19 Vaccine Technology (w/Rep. Jan Schakowsky and other guests) 1:00:14

3y ago1:00:14

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Audio from a live Public Citizen webinar featuring Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-ILL), South African Counsellor to the WTO Mustaqeem De Gama, and Senior Legal and Policy Advisor at Doctors Without Borders, Yuanqiong Hu. The event discusses how millions of people around the world may not get COVID-19 vaccines until as late as 2024 unless President Biden re…

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What The Biden Administration Can Do To Fix Our Trade Mess, Part 2 18:05

3+ y ago18:05

18:05

The Biden administration inherited a political and trade policy landscape transformed since the end of the Obama presidency by both the Trump trade strategy and the COVID-19 pandemic. To deliver on its Build Back Better promises, the administration must create new approaches to trade that prioritize good jobs, promote the environmental and energy p…

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President Biden Should Reverse Trump's Deadly Obstruction of Global COVID-19 Vaccines 15:54

3+ y ago15:54

15:54

Millions of people around the world may not get COVID-19 vaccines until as late as 2024—unless President Biden reverses the Trump administration’s deadly position at the World Trade Organization (WTO). SIGN THE PETITION: https://rethinktrade.org/actions/urge-biden-reverse-trumps-deadly-obstruction-of-global-covid-19-vaccine-access/ Learn more at re…

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What The Biden Administration Can Do To Fix Our Trade Mess, Part 1 20:09

3+ y ago20:09

20:09

The Biden administration inherited a political and trade policy landscape transformed since the end of the Obama presidency by both the Trump trade strategy and the COVID-19 pandemic. To deliver on its Build Back Better promises, the administration must create new approaches to trade that prioritize good jobs, promote the environmental and energy p…

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Rethinking Trade in 2021: What Are We For? 16:34

3+ y ago16:34

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With Georgia’s run-off elections shifting control of the Senate to the Democrats, the party will have a lot more room to pursue progressive reforms than in previous years. What does this mean for fixing our rotten trade rules, and what kinds of policies should we be pursuing? In part one of this episode, we address this question by discussing the T…

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How U.S. Trade Policies Disproportionately Impacted Black and Latino Workers, w/Special Guest Dolores Huerta 32:37

3+ y ago32:37

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In this episode, Lori is joined by Dolores Huerta, co-founder with Cesar Chaves of the United farm Workers and renown civil rights activist, to discuss our Trade Discrimination report. This new research reveals how decades of corporate-rigged trade policies have disproportionately impacted Black and Latino workers. In her decades of labor and civil…

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U.S. Officials Are Blocking Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access at the WTO 10:55

3+ y ago10:55

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World Trade Organization (WTO) rules undermine access to COVID-19 vaccines and medicines. That’s why scores of countries are demanding that the WTO’s monopoly protections for pharmaceutical corporations be temporarily waived so COVID-19 vaccines and treatments can be produced worldwide. This is essential to ensure enough affordable doses to end the…

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What Will Biden’s Cabinet Picks Mean for U.S. Trade Policy? 16:01

3+ y ago16:01

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President-elect Biden’s appointment of the next top U.S. trade official has taken on enormous political and symbolic value. In just a few weeks, the White House is going to look a lot different – but what about U.S. trade policy? On this episode, we examine whether the new president’s political commitment to fixing some of the worst aspects of the …

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Preview: The Friendly Troll - The US Kenya FTA Part 3, featuring Lori Wallach 4:10

3+ y ago4:10

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Lori "sat down" recently with The Friendly Troll host Dr. Melissa Omino and Dr. Isaac Rutenberg from Kenya's Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law to discuss the US-Kenya free trade agreement currently under negotiation. Listen to the full episode here.

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Whatever Happened to Trump’s Big China Deal? 15:29

3+ y ago15:29

15:29

Donald Trump makes a big deal out of what he calls his “big deal” with China. But Trump’s “Phase 1” China trade deal actually encourage U.S. companies to outsource jobs to China. Meanwhile the Chinese government is not following through on its promise to increase purchases of U.S. agricultural goods. The second phase of the China deal is MIA. And t…

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How We Were Fast Tracked Into Corporate-Rigged Trade Deals 15:35

3+ y ago15:35

15:35

The most damaging U.S. trade agreements were hatched using the same process: “Fast Track.” Fast Track empowers the executive branch to unilaterally select partner countries for trade deals, decide their contents and negotiate and sign them – all before Congress gets to vote on the matter. Meanwhile, hundreds of official U.S. trade advisors represen…

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Big Oil Wants to Use a Stealthy Trade Deal to Kill African Environmental Protections 12:28

3+ y ago12:28

12:28

Chemical, oil and gas companies face plastic bags bans and other policies to fight the plastic waste that is clogging rivers and choking our oceans. Since China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, the industry has sought a new place for the garbage as vital to maintaining demand for sales of more single-use plastics. A recent New York Times expos…

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Offshoring Continues: The Data vs. Trump’s Promises 14:19

3+ y ago14:19

14:19

Donald Trump pledged he would swiftly eliminate the huge job-killing U.S. trade deficit, end job outsourcing and rebuild manufacturing. Did he? The government collects data on each issue, and it’s been a triple fail. Learn more at rethinktrade.org. Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-groveLic…

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