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Former Trade Negotiators Discuss This Week’s Tariff and Trade Developments
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Signup to Generate a PitchWITA's Friday Trade Exchange is hosted by WITA DC. The show has published 67 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Ep 67: Zombie 232s, Tariff Frights, Excess Capacity Haunted Houses, and Election Ghosts and Goblins" (30 October 2026, 50 minutes), "Ep 66: Shifting Trade Tectonics: EU on the Defensive; Russia Tariff and Sanctions Waivers; and Tariffs on Trial" (23 October 2026, 50 minutes), and "Ep 65: End of the Beginning with China? Excess Capacity, Updating the Arsenal, and USMCA Parallaxes" (16 October 2026, 47 minutes).
WITA's Friday Trade Exchange publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 67 episodes.
Booking probability for WITA's Friday Trade Exchange is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. WITA's Friday Trade Exchange requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. WITA's Friday Trade Exchange's contact route on record: public web form.
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WITA DC hosts WITA's Friday Trade Exchange, a news podcast with 67 episodes published.
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