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TPP trade pact will take effect in December. What is the U.S. missing?

by Tracey Samuelson
Oct 31, 2018
Remember the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The big trade pact with 11 other countries that President Donald Trump pulled out of just about as soon as he got into office? Well, TPP lives. Six out of those 11 countries have now ratified the agreement, and it’ll take effect Dec. 30 — without the United States. Which means what, […]
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TPP trade pact will take effect in December. What is the U.S. missing?

by Tracey Samuelson
Oct 31, 2018
Remember the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The big trade pact with 11 other countries that President Donald Trump pulled out of just about as soon as he got into office? Well, TPP lives. Six out of those 11 countries have now ratified the agreement, and it’ll take effect Dec. 30 — without the United States. Which means what, […]
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Trade showdown

Iowa farmers' trade war reality

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Sep 24, 2018
China and Canada were once two of the state's best customers. Iowa's agriculture secretary has some ideas about what to do next.
Corn grows on a farm near Tipton, Iowa.
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U.S.-Japan trade talks open today in Washington

by Renata Sago
Aug 9, 2018
Japan trade talks are set to open today in Washington, D.C. for the first bilateral trade meeting since President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership last year. It’s a high level meeting between Japanese Economic Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. Negotiating a free trade agreement and tariffs […]
Left, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Japanese Economic Minister Toshimitsu Motegi are meeting today in Washington, D.C. on trade.
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Trade showdown

How U.S. trade policy has changed over 30 years

by Kai Ryssdal
Jun 8, 2018
For decades, the global economy has trended toward more free trade, not less. Until now.
“Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies. They are our allies,” President Ronald Reagan said in 1988.
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The upside of multilateral trade deals

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Apr 18, 2018
President Donald Trump has again rejected the idea of the U.S. joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership. That’s the multilateral trade pact the Obama administration hammered out. Yesterday, the president tweeted that he still doesn’t like the TPP. He added that bilateral trade agreements, between the U.S. and just one other country, are more “efficient” and “profitable.” […]
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So what's the Fed forecasting in the near economic future?

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 13, 2018
Also: some more of that — now familiar — trade talk.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference March 21, 2018 in Washington, D.C. 
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TPP re-think could boost U.S.-Pacific trade

by Scott Tong
Apr 13, 2018
The world has had about a day to digest President Donald Trump’s 180-degree turn on trade. We are talking about TPP — the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Candidate Trump railed against TPP. He pulled the U.S out in his first week as president. Now, he’s told his top economic lieutenants to explore going back in. What do American […]
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Farmers are "excited" by the prospect re-entering the TPP

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 13, 2018
Keith Alverson says farmers like him are after the 95 precent of consumers outside the U.S.
The photographer holds an ear of corn he found on the ground next to a corn field during harvest on September 13, 2012 near Teltow, Germany. 
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Mnuchin: New sanctions coming for Russia, North Korea

by Kimberly Adams
Feb 26, 2018
The treasury secretary also touched on Dodd-Frank, trade agreements and the tax overhaul in a wide-ranging interview with Kai Ryssdal.
Addressing a crowd of both students and visitors, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was joined by Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations in Los Angeles on Feb. 26. 
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