Trade Splaining Podcast

Trade & global affairs shouldn't be complicated - just take it from two Americans...
Co-hosts @ArdianTweets and @RSkidmore_GVA
Email: [email protected]

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WTO = irrelevant… or just misunderstood?

- #MC14 delivered little.
- Tariffs are back.
- And yet...global trade refuses to break.

Ft. Peter Foster - World Trade Editor @FT

#TradeSplaining #ListenResponsibly

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"A little-known Swiss trading company played a key role in the transit through the Strait of Hormuz of an oil supertanker whose stop-start journey captivated the oil market earlier this month."

cc: @megacontango @S_Elwardany @jfarchy

https://t.co/rtmLVQoyKy

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"Companies in at least 9 European countries bought carbon credits from projects that appear not to exist or were verified by an auditor-turned-developer who treated the two jobs as a revolving door."

cc: @petrasorge @ntashawhite @hellococomo

https://t.co/yjg4spt64b

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"EU state aid has increased. Will that fend off China or fragment the single market?"

cc: @BMoens @alicemhancock @SebastienAsh

https://t.co/HM9X6ElMCr

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"‘I’m telling our UK friends: we are not greedy,’ says the bloc’s trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič."

cc: @AndyBounds

https://t.co/f9cU5tgdgr

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"The city has been hit by successive shocks and diminishing growth. But the rest of the UK needs it."

https://t.co/kGWD01Fwxh

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"The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has affected the Asian chemicals industry, with fertilizer and plastics plants slowing production or shutting down, except in China, which uses domestic coal as feedstock."

cc: @JavierBlas

https://t.co/aesTDSfTGi

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"‘China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner,’ thinktank says."

https://t.co/WomIR3lWeE

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"The US issued a new waiver allowing the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum products already loaded on tankers."

cc: @jendeben @AlbertoNardelli

https://t.co/mv2ho5WmOa

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"UBS: the bank that outgrew a country. Can a state with 9mn people host a financial behemoth?"

https://t.co/EnqPvEidv0

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"The humanitarian relief system, decimated by cuts, faces a grave challenge as the Middle East war causes soaring costs for food, fuel and fertilizer."

cc: @petersgoodman

https://t.co/CHgEHmO4SZ

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"Only Brazil exports more coffee than Switzerland. How did a small country, where the climate makes it impossible to grow coffee, become the world’s second-largest coffee exporter? It is a story that also has its dark chapters."

cc: @Raaflaubswissi1

https://t.co/hz42WyMI7x

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"Huawei Technologies said it has developed a workaround that will allow it to make chips on par with leading products manufactured by Intel and other top global companies by 2031."

cc: @hannahmiao_

https://t.co/SzHiJBmAb0

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"Global automaker Stellantis is accelerating partnerships with competitors out of China."

cc: @ryanfelton @christopherotts

https://t.co/yCoS5DiUfq

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"Lawyers are adapting by developing tech expertise and fighting cases in several jurisdictions."

cc: @EleanorOlcott

https://t.co/oCYdNAMwpM

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"The president has shifted the foundations of American policy toward China, throwing aside the adversarial approach of recent years."

cc: @antontroian @SangerNYT

https://t.co/ZhsEH4NRna

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"A rally in technology giants drove stocks to all-time highs, overshadowing data showing a resurgence in inflation that fueled wagers the Federal Reserve will keep rates higher for longer."

https://t.co/7GS9alI5JC

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"Beijing could turn instability in the Middle East into a strategic gain."

https://t.co/LCzY0q4Hie

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"The food giant Calbee said shortages of naphtha, a crude-oil derivative used in inks, were forcing it to switch to black-and-white packaging for its salty products."

cc: @HernandezJavier

https://t.co/zjQNyQInXt

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Why are ✈️ getting more expensive?

In #TradeSplaining Ep 88, Marie Owens Thomsen of @IATA explains why airlines are facing a 2x energy crisis: oil prices + refining pressure

Because airlines don’t fly on crude oil. They fly on jet fuel

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/jNMpec6f9s

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"Chinese exports of jet fuel, gasoline and diesel are languishing far below their levels before the Iran war despite Beijing signalling it would relax a ban."

cc: @edwardwhitenz

https://t.co/skI8xHwFRT