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| This Week in Trade #10: US–China Reset, Pharma Disruption, and New Gulf Opportunities | 20 May 2026 | 00:06:09 | |
🌏 Trade diplomacy is shifting again. The US and China are reopening commercial channels, pharmaceutical firms face a potential 100% tariff shock, and new trade corridors are emerging between the UK and the Gulf. Welcome to This Week in Trade #10, your quick, curated briefing on the global trade developments shaping markets, supply chains, and international economic policy. This week, we unpack the Trump–Xi summit in Beijing, new US Section 232 pharmaceutical tariffs, and the latest trade and regulatory developments across Europe and the Middle East. 📌 This week’s key stories: 💡 Key takeaway: ⏱️ Timestamps: 🤝 This briefcast builds on the weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell 🔗 Follow George on LinkedIn: 🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform: 🔗 Follow the Geneva Trade Platform on LinkedIn: 📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly updates on global trade, WTO developments, supply chains, and international economic policy. | |||
| This Week in Trade #9: G7 vs Overcapacity, US Tariffs & EU Deforestation Changes | 13 May 2026 | 00:05:35 | |
⚠️ Trade tensions are escalating again. The G7 is targeting industrial overcapacity, US tariff battles are back in court, and the EU is rewriting key supply chain compliance rules. Welcome to This Week in Trade #9, your quick, curated briefing on the global trade developments shaping markets, supply chains, and international economic policy. This week, we unpack the outcomes of the G7 trade summit in Paris, where ministers coordinated new approaches on critical minerals, non-market policies, WTO reform, and cross-border e-commerce. We also cover a major US court ruling on Section 122 tariffs, the launch of the USTR’s four-year review of China tariffs, rising US-EU automotive tensions, and proposed changes to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Meanwhile, New Zealand and Singapore sign the world’s first legally binding supply chain resilience agreement, and Costa Rica moves one step closer to joining the CPTPP. 📌 This week’s key stories: 💡 Key takeaway: ⏱️ Timestamps: 🤝 This briefcast builds on the weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell 🔗 Follow George on LinkedIn: 🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform: 🔗 Follow the Geneva Trade Platform on LinkedIn: 📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly updates on global trade, WTO developments, supply chains, and international trade policy. | |||
| This Week in Trade #8: Tariff Moves, Compliance Risks, and Competing for Africa | 06 May 2026 | 00:05:04 | |
🌍 Tariffs rise, compliance tightens, and the race for Africa accelerates. Welcome back to This Week in Trade Briefcast, your fast, focused roundup of the global trade shifts shaping policy, supply chains, and business decisions. This week, trade tensions resurface as the US signals new tariffs on EU autos while offering relief to UK whiskey. At the same time, enforcement risks are climbing. Vietnam faces a 30-day clock on potential Section 301 action over intellectual property concerns, and the EU is pushed onto a higher US watch list. In Europe, long-awaited clarity arrives on the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), with confirmed timelines and e-commerce now firmly in scope. Zooming out, a bigger trend is unfolding: a growing global competition to secure trade ties and critical resources across Africa. The EU updates its GSP framework, the US reviews AGOA with a supply chain lens, and China dramatically expands tariff-free access to 53 African countries. Meanwhile, the EU Mercosur interim agreement provisionally enters into force. 💡 Key takeaway: Trade is becoming more contested and compliance-driven, while major powers compete to shape the next generation of trade partnerships in emerging markets. 🎯 This week’s key stories:
⏱️ Timestamps: 🤝 This briefcast builds on weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell 🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform 📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments. | |||
| This Week in Trade #7: Transatlantic Minerals Pact, AI Chip Controls, and EU Sanctions | 29 Apr 2026 | 00:05:53 | |
🌍 Back with This Week in Trade Briefcast! This week, we unpack a growing shift toward strategic trade coordination. The US and EU launch a transatlantic critical minerals partnership, North America gears up for a high-stakes USMCA review, and Washington advances dynamic AI semiconductor export controls. At the same time, the EU expands and hardens its sanctions regime, while China responds with new restrictions and India accelerates its role in Indo-Pacific supply chains. The bigger picture: trade rules are becoming more adaptive, more security-driven, and increasingly tied to real-time industrial and geopolitical competition. 🎯 This week’s key stories: US–EU launch transatlantic minerals partnership with coordinated tools 💡 Key takeaway: Trade policy is shifting toward dynamic enforcement where access to markets, technology, and supply chains depends on evolving geopolitical and industrial capabilities. ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 Trade Rules Shift 🤝 This briefcast builds on the weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell 🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform 🔗 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geneva-trade-platform 📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments. | |||
| This Week in Trade #6: Growth Downgrades, AI Trade Walls, and CBAM | 22 Apr 2026 | 00:06:19 | |
🌍 Back with This Week in Trade Briefcast! Your quick, curated roundup of the latest global trade news, supply chain shifts, and trade policy developments shaping business decisions worldwide.This week, we unpack the major forces reshaping international trade: the IMF cuts its global growth outlook as conflict weighs on the world economy, the US and China escalate their AI chip and export control battle, and the European Union tightens steel safeguards while signalling a broader CBAM regime.The bigger picture: trade is becoming more fragmented, more strategic, and more heavily shaped by economic security, industrial policy, and regional resilience measures. 🎯 This week’s key stories:IMF cuts growth outlook as conflict weighs on the global economyUS and China deepen the tech and export control battleEU tightens steel safeguards and signals a broader CBAMUSTR opens a new labor case in Mexico under USMCAAustralia and Singapore strengthen essential supply resilienceVietnam requests to join the expansion of the WTO Information Technology Agreement 💡 Key takeaway: Global trade is no longer just about tariffs and market access. It is increasingly about AI controls, carbon border measures, supply chain resilience, and geopolitical risk; which is forcing businesses to rethink compliance, sourcing, and long-term strategy. ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 Trade Map Fractures 00:24 Show Intro and Agenda 00:53 IMF Macro Warning 01:47 US–China Chip Escalation 03:30 EU Steel and CBAM Clampdown 04:46 Regional Rapid Fire Updates 05:40 Wrap Up and Feedback 🤝 This briefcast builds on the weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell 🔗 Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/griddell/ 🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform: 🔗 https://genevatradeplatform.org 🔗 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geneva-trade-platform/ 📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly updates on global trade, WTO developments, supply chains, and trade policy. | |||
| This Week in Trade #5: Supply Chain Risk, Economic Coercion, and Multilateral Strain | 15 Apr 2026 | 00:05:13 | |
🌍 Back with This Week in Trade Briefcast!Your quick, curated roundup of the global trade developments shaping supply chains, policy, and business decisions.This week, we unpack a growing shift toward trade as a tool of economic security and geopolitical leverage. China introduces sweeping new powers to protect its supply chains and counter foreign pressure, the UK explores mechanisms to respond to economic coercion while advancing its carbon border regime, and the US rolls out new enforcement tools targeting forced labour alongside a key tariff refund window.At the multilateral level, tensions deepen as the US questions the WTO’s relevance following MC14—raising fresh uncertainty about the future of global trade governance.🎯 This week’s key stories:China issues new supply chain security decree enabling countermeasures against foreign restrictionsNew security review system targets risks from foreign governments and organizationsUK launches consultation on powers to counter economic coercionUK advances CBAM rules on emissions monitoring and verification ahead of 2025 rolloutUS introduces forced labour risk tools, including import watch and traceability portalIEEPA tariff refund window opens for US importers on 20 AprilWTO fault lines persist after MC14 as US signals shift away from multilateralism💡 Key takeaway: Trade policy is increasingly being weaponized for security and strategic advantage—forcing businesses to reassess supply chain exposure, compliance risks, and geopolitical dependencies.⏱️ Timestamps:00:00 Trade Turbulence Ahead00:33 China Supply Chain Security01:34 UK Economic Coercion Powers02:06 UK CBAM Rules Explained02:55 US Forced Labor Tools03:27 IEEPA Tariff Refund Window04:02 WTO Rift After MC1404:41 Wrap Up and Feedback🤝 This briefcast builds on the weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell🔗 Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/griddell/🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform:🔗 https://genevatradeplatform.org🔗 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geneva-trade-platform/📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments.🔔 Subscribe for weekly updates to stay ahead of the curve in global trade. | |||
| This Week in Trade #4: Trade Retaliation, Carbon Border Costs, and Supply Chain Security | 09 Apr 2026 | 00:06:19 | |
This Week in Trade #4: Trade Retaliation, Carbon Border Costs, and Supply Chain Security🌍 Back with This Week in Trade Briefcast!Your quick, curated roundup of the global trade developments shaping supply chains, policy, and business decisions.In this episode, we unpack a major escalation in trade tensions as the United States expands its Section 232 tariff regime across pharmaceuticals and metals, triggering swift international responses. China launches two trade barrier investigations into US practices, while the EU locks in its first-quarter 2026 carbon border price and advances new packaging compliance rules.Beyond unilateral measures, we examine how smaller coalitions and WTO members are stepping in to stabilize global trade governance and protect supply chains amid mounting geopolitical and regulatory pressure.🎯 This week’s key stories:US announces new pharmaceutical tariffs under expanded Section 232 measuresSteel, aluminum, and copper tariffs broaden to full customs valueNew rolling process allows derivative products to be added to tariff listsChina launches two trade barrier investigations targeting US practicesEU sets Q1 2026 CBAM carbon border price at €75.36New EU packaging guidance clarifies recyclability and labeling rulesWTO members preserve temporary moratorium on duties for digital tradeChina withdraws anti-suit injunction policy after WTO IP rulingFuture of Investment and Trade Partnership pledges open supply chains amid Strait of Hormuz tensions💡 Key takeaway: Trade policy is increasingly being used as an industrial, geopolitical, and security tool, raising compliance costs while pushing businesses to reassess supply chain resilience and regulatory exposure.⏱️ Timestamps:00:00 Tariff Week Overview00:40 US Pharma Tariffs01:48 Metal Tariff Overhaul02:58 China Trade Probes03:46 EU CBAM and Packaging04:36 WTO and Coalitions05:36 Wrap Up and Feedback🤝 This briefcast builds on the weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell🔗 Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/griddell/🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform:🔗 https://genevatradeplatform.org🔗 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geneva-trade-platform/📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments.🔔 Subscribe for weekly updates to stay ahead of the curve in global trade. | |||
| This Week in Trade #3: WTO Deadlock, E-Commerce Plurilateralism, and the EU-Australia Deal | 01 Apr 2026 | 00:06:24 | |
🌍 Back with This Week in Trade Briefcast! Your quick, curated roundup of the global trade developments shaping supply chains, policy, and business decisions.In this episode, we unpack the outcome of the WTO’s MC14 in Yaoundé, which ended in deadlock amid deep divisions between major players,including the US, India, Brazil, and China. As multilateral negotiations stall, a group of 66 members moves ahead with a breakaway e-commerce agreement, signalling a shift toward plurilateral trade governance.Beyond the WTO, we explore how geopolitics and strategic interests are driving parallel trade activityfrom trade-and-environment initiatives to new regional alignments and a major EU-Australia trade deal that blends economic and security priorities. 🎯 This week’s key stories: WTO MC14 ends in deadlock amid lowered ambition and sharp divisions Disputes intensify over the e-commerce moratorium and development flexibilities 66 members advance a plurilateral e-commerce agreement outside WTO structures Trade-and-environment initiatives gain traction despite broader gridlock Geopolitical dynamics shape trade engagement across Africa and beyond EU and Australia conclude a major FTA with strategic supply chain elements The US advances trade measures tied to security, technology, and labor enforcement 💡 Key takeaway: As multilateralism stalls, trade cooperation is increasingly shifting toward smaller coalitions, strategic partnerships, and issue-specific agreements. ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 WTO MC14 Deadlock 00:59 E-Commerce Moratorium Fight 01:44 Breakaway E-Commerce Deal 02:08 Trade and Environment Push 02:49 Geopolitics on the Margins 03:28 EU–Australia FTA Breakthrough 04:17 Turnberry Deal Safeguards 04:54 US Security-Driven Trade 06:12 Wrap Up and Next Steps 🤝 This briefcast builds on the weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell 🔗 Follow him on LinkedIn: / griddell 🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform: 🔗 https://genevatradeplatform.org 🔗 Follow us on LinkedIn: / geneva-trade-platform 📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly updates to stay ahead of the curve in global trade. | |||
| This Week in Trade #2: Slowing Trade, Critical Minerals, and MC14 | 26 Mar 2026 | 00:05:13 | |
This Week in Trade #2: Slowing Trade, Critical Minerals, and MC14🌍 Welcome to This Week in Trade Briefcast! Your quick, curated roundup of the global trade developments shaping supply chains, policy, and business decisions.In this episode, we unpack the latest outlook from the World Trade Organization projecting a slowdown in global merchandise trade growth to 1.9%, alongside major geopolitical and policy shifts across the US, Europe, and beyond.🎯 This week’s key stories:WTO forecasts slowing trade growth amid rising geopolitical tensionsThe US eases sanctions on Iranian oil, impacting global energy marketsA new US-Japan critical minerals partnership targets supply chain resilienceThe EU advances a trade deal with the US with strict conditions attachedThe UK unveils an aggressive steel strategy with new import restrictionsParaguay ratifies the Mercosur–EU agreement, marking a regional milestoneWTO ministers gather in Yaoundé for MC14💡 Despite the slowdown, one striking insight remains: 72% of global trade still runs on MFN tariffs under the WTO system.⏱️ Timestamps:00:00 Trade Growth Slumps00:39 US Energy Shift01:01 Critical Minerals Pact01:42 EU-US Deal Conditions02:49 UK Steel Crackdown03:22 Mercosur–EU Milestone03:36 WTO Outlook and AI04:26 WTO Ministerial Preview04:41 Wrap Up and Feedback🤝 This briefcast builds on the weekly trade insights curated by George Riddell.🔗 Follow him on LinkedIn: / griddell 🌐 Explore more from the Geneva Trade Platform:🔗 https://genevatradeplatform.org🔗 Follow us on LinkedIn: / geneva-trade-platform 📩 Have feedback or topics you’d like us to cover? Let us know in the comments.🔔 Subscribe for weekly updates to stay ahead of the curve in global trade. | |||
| This Week in Trade #1: Section 301, MC14, and Energy Shocks | 18 Mar 2026 | 00:04:31 | |
Together with Goyder Ltd’s George Riddell, the Geneva Trade Platform launches a new weekly audio series bringing you a quick, curated round-up of the most important stories shaping global trade including those you may have missed.Designed for practitioners, policymakers, and the business community, this short briefing focuses on the developments impacting supply chains, investment decisions, and the movement of goods, services, and capital across borders.In this first episode, we cover sweeping US Section 301 investigations, the upcoming WTO MC14, energy-driven market shifts, New Zealand’s border levy reforms, and fresh momentum in global trade agreements.🎯 For deeper insights, each episode builds on George Riddell’s weekly written trade round-up on LinkedIn.➡️ This is just the beginning! We’ll be evolving the series with new voices and perspectives. Let us know what you think and what would make it even more valuable.-------------------------⏱️ Timestamps00:00 US Section 301 Probes00:18 Forced Labor Measures00:49 Excess Capacity Investigation01:30 WTO MC14 Agenda02:01 Energy & Russia Oil License02:34 Supply Chain Responses03:08 New Zealand Border Levies03:33 Trade Agreements Roundup04:04 Wrap Up & Feedback | |||