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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 66: Shifting Trade Tectonics: EU on the Defensive; Russia Tariff and Sanctions Waivers; and Tariffs on Trial" (23 October 2026, 50 minutes), "Ep 65: End of the Beginning with China? Excess Capacity, Updating the Arsenal, and USMCA Parallaxes" (16 October 2026, 47 minutes), and "Ep. 63: A Nothing Burger: Trump-Xi Summit, Steel Excess Capacity, and the Forced Labor 301s in Court" (1 October 2026, 44 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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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...
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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...
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Our trade insiders count down to the August 19th tariff deadline with Canada. Is an interim deal in the card and does trading away autos, steel, and aluminum leverage help or hurt the USMCA review and talks with Mexico...
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In this week's episode, our trade insiders examine the wave of Section 301 tariffs tied to forced labor claims. They dig into the legal framework for these actions, the countries identified in the forced labor Section...
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This week's episode examines the legal durability of Section 301 tariffs and the untested Section 338s as tools for enforcing forced-labor and discrimination-based tariffs. The insiders weighed how each section could...
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n this week's episode, our trade insiders dissect the administration's newly imposed Section 301 tariffs on forced labor, hitting 60 trading partners. Our former negotiators debate the legal standing of the tariffs and...
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In this week's episode, our trade insiders dug into the “Graham Bill” - the bipartisan, bicameral Russia sanctions bill and its open-ended tariff authority. They debated its potential trade repercussions, whether...
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In this week's episode, our trade insiders discussed the Spain tariff threat and its quick reversal, and what that sequence of events suggests about navigating President Trump’s tariff threats in a post-IEEPA world. The...
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In this week's episode, our trade insiders examine the ongoing USMCA review process, including proposed tariff actions on Canada and Mexico and the debate over how trade deficits should be interpreted in the context of...
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In this week's episode, our trade insiders dig into the USMCA review process. With the upcoming trilateral meeting on July 1, anything and everything is up for debate. Our former negotiators unpack the divergence over...
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On this week’s episode of WITA’s Friday Exchange, our trade insiders discussed the Trump administration’s new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran and its implications for global trade, energy markets, and supply...
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In this week's episode, the OG trade insiders dive into the developing new trade world paradigm; Secretary Rubio's visit to India; the EU moving forward to implement the Turnberry agreement with the U.S., and...
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Following the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, trade officials are still searching for substance beneath the strategic ambiguity. This week, our panel unpacked what the proposed “Board of Trade” with China could actually...
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Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets, Progressive Policy Institute
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former Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Asia Society Policy Institute
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