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    Alan Beattie

    Senior Trade Writer

    Alan Beattie writes Trade Secrets,  a newsletter on trade and globalisation, every Monday, and an opinion column each Wednesday. Based in Brussels, he was previously the FT's international economy editor, based in Washington, and world trade editor, in London. He is the author of False Economy (Penguin, 2009) and Who's In Charge Here? (Penguin, 2012).

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    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      Trade SecretsUS trade
      The US ‘friendshoring’ experiment risks making enemies

      Favouring political allies when constructing supply chains is expensive, tricky and possibly self-defeating

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      Trade SecretsEurozone economy
      The euro’s drama is not an existential crisis

      The currency has become more resilient with every trauma it has survived

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      The year so far in trade: nasty shocks, smart companies, mediocre policy Premium content

      Globalisation has so far withstood the China lockdown and the Ukraine war, but even tougher times are coming

    • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
      Trade SecretsSovereign bonds
      The world isn’t prepared for a wave of sovereign debt defaults

      Many emerging markets will need painful bond writedowns from China and private creditors

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      EU trade
      Brussels sharpens a weapon that might end up spearing its friends Premium content

      The foreign subsidies regulation has a clear rationale, but wise implementation is another thing

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      Trade SecretsGlobalisation
      No, the global economy is not breaking into geopolitical blocs

      Shrewd operators like Brazil’s Bolsonaro and India’s Modi can avoid getting trapped in a restrictive alliance with Washington or Beijing

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Johnson quits, but the UK’s haphazard trade regime is staying Premium content

      Britain’s incoming prime minister will maintain its destructive attitude to the EU

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      Trade SecretsSupply chains
      The big risks to America in bringing supply chains home

      The infant formula and Covid vaccine crises show the perils of self-sufficiency

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Global ‘carbon club’ that dare not talk of tariffs Premium content

      The (so far fruitless) debate over carbon border measures is taking place privately between the EU and the US

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Trade SecretsUS trade
      US-led security push in Asia leaves trade as an optional extra

      The shift from Asia-Pacific economics to Indo-Pacific security is more than semantic

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      The new recessionary threat to global trade Premium content

      A fresh concern arises, but shipping companies are investing like crazy for the long term

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Trade SecretsBrexit
      Britain’s trade relationship with the EU is needlessly dysfunctional

      The UK’s strained post-Brexit ties with the 27-nation bloc contrast with its constructive attitude elsewhere

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Battling to define success after the WTO summit Premium content

      Trade Secrets talks to director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about the ‘industry of negativism’ around the institution

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Trade SecretsGlobal trade
      The WTO’s marathon exercise in staying alive

      The symbolism of striking deals at this week’s ministerial comfortably outweighed their substance

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      The WTO searches for some sorely-needed wins Premium content

      Ministers might seal a symbolically important deal in Geneva this week, but the politics of trade are still toxic

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Time trickles away for a success at the WTO Premium content

      June’s ministerial meeting will be marked by tensions over Russia and disagreements over Covid patents

    • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
      Trade SecretsIndian economy
      India’s export shock exacerbates a global food crisis

      Wheat prices are soaring after government plans to feed the world fell apart under domestic pressure

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Brussels and Washington aim to be flexible friends Premium content

      Trade and Technology Council is testing a softer, more ad hoc approach to transatlantic relations

    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      Trade SecretsUS trade
      Trade policy cannot fix America’s inequality problem

      The Biden administration can’t protect its way to prosperity in a post-industrial economy

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      WTO Covid patent waiver that no one wants to own Premium content

      US, South Africa and India are failing to back the proposal that they themselves negotiated

    • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
      Trade SecretsEU economy
      The supply chain crisis kicks off a dangerous spiral of state subsidies

      It’s hard to argue against governments giving handouts to farmers during a global food emergency

    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Slamming export controls on Russia brings the US and EU together Premium content

      The transatlantic Trade and Technology Council is gaining some momentum thanks to the Ukraine war

    • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
      Globalisation
      The populist strongmen who are strangely keen on globalisation

      Emmanuel Macron’s re-election doesn’t prove very much about the future of open trade

    • Monday, 25 April, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Normalité, familiarité, continuité after Macron’s re-election Premium content

      How the French president may have insulated himself against the populist challenge on trade

    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      Trade SecretsEU trade
      The necessary hypocrisy of a geopolitical Europe

      For the EU, keeping out migrants and welcoming Ukraine means ditching inconvenient principles

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