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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 Thursday. Based in London, he was previously the FT's international economy editor and world trade editor and has been based in Washington and Brussels. He is the author of False Economy (Penguin, 2009) and Who's In Charge Here? (Penguin, 2012).

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    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsCommodities
      EU seeks to tone down the imperial style in search for critical minerals

      A trade deal with Chile shows Brussels is trying to appear to be a development partner rather than a neocolonial extractor

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The banking crisis and the indispensable dollar Premium content

      With the Federal Reserve backstopping bank liquidity worldwide, the US currency has no effective challenger

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsAgricultural commodities
      Rich nations are not looking good in the palm-oil dispute

      Indonesia and Malaysia have a point in criticising tariffs that penalise sustainable producers

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      UK trade
      UK poised to remove import tariffs on Malaysian palm oil

      Britain’s move to cut duties as it seeks entry to CPTPP trade deal sparks concern among green groups

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Britain’s bumpy ride to the Asia-Pacific Premium content

      UK’s drive to join CPTPP trade deal more about spin and poison pills than substance

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsChinese trade
      The quick and easy guide for countries resisting Chinese trade coercion

      Australia and Lithuania have shown that finding new export markets is much faster than WTO litigation

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Local borrowing that’s not enough to stop a global debt crisis Premium content

      It’s good that more emerging markets are issuing sovereign bonds in their own currencies, but that can create its own problems

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsIndian business & finance
      Insular India’s exporters will struggle to fill Chinese shoes

      National trade strategy will make it hard for Indian companies to take full advantage of Beijing’s geopolitical problems

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The tricky task of turning the World Bank green Premium content

      New president-presumptive Ajay Banga will lead a fractious organisation in a hazardous political landscape

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The EU’s turn to dodge litigation that stops it going green Premium content

      European governments sued by investors are deserting the Energy Charter Treaty en masse

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      Trade SecretsEU business regulation
      Europe breaks new ground in backing strategic green industries

      Until now, industrial policy in the EU has been restrained by tough competition laws

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Joe Biden’s green spending awakens Europe’s green-eyed monster Premium content

      An EU envious of US fiscal largesse is scraping together cash to fund its own industrial subsidies

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Trade SecretsEU trade
      The EU will struggle to de-risk its trade with China

      Brussels doesn’t yet have the tools or the strategy to fine-tune economic disengagement

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Sovereign default problems that haven’t found a fix Premium content

      Zambia’s landmark debt restructuring delayed by fundamental discord between China and other creditors

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Supply chains
      The end of Chinese lockdowns and the reopening of trade

      Risks of disruption to ports and shipping are outweighed by a boost to global demand

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The Russia corporate divestment that never happened Premium content

      Less than 9% of rich-world companies have sold up and left the country despite Ukraine war

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Trade SecretsEU economy
      The challenge for Europe’s green tech spending splurge

      The EU’s plans for environmental subsidies face problems of incentives and transatlantic co-ordination

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      A dirigiste Europe gives free-trade Sweden a hospital pass Premium content

      One of the EU’s most liberal governments is chairing an increasingly interventionist gang of member states

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Trade SecretsUS foreign policy
      Trade sometimes needs American weapons more than European values

      US military support for Ukraine and Taiwan is underpinning regional and global commerce

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The mixed motives and multiple goals of Joe Biden’s trade policy Premium content

      US’s trading partners are dealing with a conflicted superpower

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Trade bans for you, exports for us Premium content

      US restrictions on semiconductor exports to China hit European companies harder than its own

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      WTO judgment no one wanted to happen Premium content

      US has forced a dispute panel ruling over national security it will now disturbingly ignore

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Trade SecretsSupply chains
      The risk of talking down trade

      Gloomy overstatement about deglobalisation risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      The go-slow gambit on Biden’s car subsidies Premium content

      Japan and South Korea want to delay the electric vehicle tax credits to give their companies time to adjust

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Trade SecretsEU energy
      The green tech tussle where America has cash and Europe has rules

      EU governments see US clean energy subsidies as a threat, not an opportunity

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