Tradecraft Podcast

In Episode 52, Marc explores how Congress and the Biden Administration should secure the U.S. semiconductor supply chain.

In Episode 51, Marc argues for the Biden Administration to settle the 12 WTO cases over steel and aluminum tariffs.

In Episode 50, Marc Busch examines Specific Trade Concern 332.

In Episode 49, Marc uses the recent EU-China agreement on Geographical Indications (GIs) to explore what GIs could mean for the future of global agricultural trade.

In Episode 48, Marc revisits the National Security Exception in light of DS512 (Russia--Measures Concerning Traffic In Transit) and DS567 (Saudi Arabia--Measures Concerning the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights).

In Episode 47, Marc examines the UK / Japan deal through the lens of USMCA.

In Episode 46, Marc reviews the DS543 ruling.

In Episode 45, Marc challenges the political narrative that manufacturing is Main Street. Services are increasingly what both college-educated and those without a college degree in hand are already doing,

In Episode 44, Marc examines the chlorinated chicken issue that continues to shape U.S. / UK / EU trade relations.

In Episode 43, Marc examines Congress' China fixation and what that could mean for WTO reform more broadly.

In Episode 42, Marc explores how the novel coronavirus pandemic has impacted the Boeing / Airbus dispute.

In Episode 41, Marc breaks down the lobster wars, a full blown trade conflict in which no party(the U.S., China, the EU, and Canada)is cheating...For the most part.

In Episode 40, Marc reviews DG Azevêdo's resignation and details what member states should look for in the next WTO Director-General.

In Episode 39, Marc reviews Sen. Josh Hawley's(R-MO.) May 5th NYT Op-Ed ("The WTO Should Be Abolished") and his May 7th joint resolution for Congress to withdraw its approval of the WTO.

In Episode 38, Marc examines the nature of modern trade agreements in a webinar with the Young Trade Professionals, a program of WITA.

In Episode 37, Marc delivers a stay-at-home, self-quarantine lecture.

In Episode 36, Marc breaks down USTR's 174-page report detailing its concerns about the WTO Appellate Body.

In Episode 35, Marc takes a look at the European Union's recent amendments to EU Regulation 654/2014, playing out what this "rearmament" could mean in the wake of a functioning Appellate Body.

In Episode 34, Marc reviews the GATT years to answer how the dispute settlement function at the WTO works in the absence of a functioning Appellate Body.

In Ep. 33, Marc argues that the case for the WTO is made stronger by the proliferation of preferential trade agreements with outside options for dispute settlement.

In Episode 32, Marc examines USMCA from the Canadian perspective and asks what's in it for Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party.

In Episode 31, Marc examines what's at stake in the debate over Special and Differential (S&D)treatment for the WTO's developing country members.

In Episode 30, Marc offers a blueprint for a trade truce.

In Episode 29, Marc explores unilateralism in the WTO and makes the case that the time for Section 301 has come and gone.

In Episode 28, Marc proposes a remand function to deal specifically with fact finding and potentially even false judicial economy.

In Episode 27, Marc offers up a new mechanism to appease the Trump Administration's concerns over judicial activism and #SaveTheWTO.

In Episode 26, Marc explains why Vietnam could become the next front in President Trump's trade war, while calling on the Administration to strike a comprehensive trade agreement and BIT with Vietnam.

In Episode 25, Marc examines the G20 Communique out of Osaka and explains what, if anything, the two-day summit signals about the current state of global trade.

In Episode 24, Marc explores all things Ag.

In Episode 23, Marc reviews the recent House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing on enforcement in USMCA, breaks down the "Brown-Wyden" proposal, and muses on the future of enforcement in light of the stalled U.S.-China talks.

In Episode 22, Marc revisits the leaked US negotiating document and makes the case for a U.S.-China BIT.

In Episode 21, Marc offers updates and new insights into ISDS, the national security exception, and the issue of precedent, while forecasting what these developments will mean for U.S. trade policy in the near/long-term.

In Episode 20, Marc examines the role of precedent in WTO litigation, explains the renewed interest in DSU XXV, and demonstrates why the U.S. is ill-served by undermining the veracity of precedent at the WTO.

In Episode 19, Marc revisits the epic Boeing - Airbus dispute, reviewing the aircraft/non-aircraft cases that have informed the debate and calling on the world's leading aircraft companies to reach a new agreement modeled on the EU – US Agreement on Large Civil Aircraft 1992.

In Episode 18, Marc examines the Generalized System of Preferences’ (GSP) original aims and origins, shows how the WTO exacerbates the program’s most detrimental elements and harms developing countries in the long-term, and defends USTR’s decision to suspend India’s GSP benefits.

In Episode 17, Marc explores biologic drugs, explains why data exclusivity is so important to their production, and challenges the House Democrats' recent push to reopen USMCA over the 10-year data protection term for biologics.

In Episode 16, Marc sorts through the mounting international criticism of USMCA, contemplates how the EU might challenge USMCA at the WTO, and floats a forward-looking trade deal dubbed the "Atlantic Union" that would cover the EU and all NAFTA parties.

In Episode 15, Marc digs into the “U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act," draws out the non-tariff barrier element the media has largely missed, and demonstrates why a bill that is likely “dead on arrival” poses such a serious threat to trade promotion authority and the larger political debate over trade in the U.S.

In Episode 14, Marc examines the "National Security Exception" in light of DS512 (Ukraine-Russia) and a handful of other cases, diving into GATT Article XXI to tease out the framers' intentions and make sense of the "self-judging" debate that will be central to any panel ruling.

In Episode 13, Marc looks at the challenges of global trade through whiskey (tariffs, labeling regimes, and asymmetric excise taxes), muses on the industry's future legal fights (cask strength and small batch), and serves up how trade will affect the "water of life" in the New Year.

In Episode 12, Marc makes the case for firms to build out their trade capacity, demonstrates why this trade unit should be central to a company's non-market strategy, and serves up compelling case studies of companies that have used aggressive trade strategies to dramatically increase their market share.

In Episode 11, Marc explains the different types of services, highlights the work of Kindred.ai, and explores how AI-enabled robotics could transform our understanding of Mode 4 services.

In Episode 10, Marc explores Trump's impact on the DNC and GOP's traditional trade positions, examines how effectively Democrats are occupying the free-trade lane, and games out what impact this will have on the midterms and party identity into 2020.

In Episode 9, Marc explores the central problem that ISDS is trying to solve, dispels damaging myths surrounding the system, and explains why developing and rich countries, alike, depend on ISDS.

In Episode 8, Marc makes sense of the WTO reform proposals in play, delving into the issues of Precedent, S&D treatment, and Appellate Body overreach.

In Episode 7, Marc breaks down Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT's), identifies the philosophical differences that stalled past T-TIP negotiations, and demonstrates why an "early harvest" on TBT would be a loss for both sides.

In Episode 6, Marc works through the key sticking points keeping Canada out of a NAFTA 2.0, muses on the future of Trade Promotion Authority, and breaks down the Republican/Democratic divide over the so-called "United States - Mexico Trade Agreement" now on a 90-day clock.

In Episode 5, Marc analyzes the Administration’s current trade agenda in light of the coming midterm elections, and offers up a vision for a new, post-election trade agenda that would allow President Trump to go on the offense while also forging closer relations with China.

In Episode 4, Marc breaks down the WTO’S dispute settlement system, weighs the political and commercial risks/benefits of pursuing litigation at the WTO, and explains why the (yet-to-be-filed) endocrine disrupter case could become the most important case the WTO has ever heard.

In Episode 3, Marc highlights the features of modern preferential trade agreements, explains why countries are in an arms race of sorts to negotiate them, and works out how the United States' trade agreement strategy is evolving--and what that could mean for global trade.

In Episode 2 - Pt. II, Marc examines how the Trump Administration’s strained relations with traditional trading partners might affect the developing trade war with China, games out what non-tariff barriers China could turn to as it retaliates against the U.S., and highlights an issue that should keep all free-traders up at night — Sovereign Patent Pools.