Chad P. Bown | Thinklab

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Chad P. Bown Trump administration says it won't back consensus candidate, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to become new leader of the World Trade Organization, throwing process into flux. by @BBaschuk 80d

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Trump's phase one trade deal with China and the US election

PIIE 81d 2 tweets

President Donald Trump has staked a claim to success in his trade war with China on his phase one trade agreement of January 2020.

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Chad P. Bown As the election approaches, mounting evidence indicates the US-China deal is failing to live up to Trump’s $200 billion purchase pledge. No single reason explains why, but 15 products help tell the story. My latest 81d

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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Chad P. Bown Trump’s new NAFTA has not provoked an investment surge. From 2013-16 automakers announced US investments of $47.3 bn. From 2017-19, it was $38.3 bn. Investment goes with market growth, and US auto sales peaked in 2016. FACTS with @KDziczek & @SDonnan 81d

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Kodak Loan Debacle Puts a New Agency in the Hot Seat

Alan Rappeport, Ana Swanson, Glenn Thrush - Nytimes.com 82d 3 tweets

A stumbling effort to prop up the domestic generic drugs sector underscores the challenges of a Trump administration industrial policy.

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Chad P. Bown Trump's Kodak project highlights risks inherent in the type of industrial policy that the United States has traditionally avoided but that other nations have tried to employ (and that mostly ends in failure). By @AnaSwanson, @ARappeport & @GlennThrush 81d

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Donald Trump and trade

The Economist 86d 2 tweets

What have the president’s threats and deals achieved?

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Chad P. Bown Four years ago, what Trump would actually do on trade policy was still an unknown. So much happened since, you may have blocked some of it from memory. Here's why you shouldn't do that. By @SoumayaKeynes 85d

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Farmers Stick With Trump, Despite Trade-War Pain

Jacob Bunge - WSJ 89d 6 tweets

Many in agriculture say they believe a Biden presidency would bring stricter environmental regulations and higher taxes than the incumbent. “I’ll take the good with the bad.”

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Chad P. Bown Poll by Farm Futures found 75% of farmers surveyed in July planned to vote for Trump, compared with 72.6% ahead of the 2016 election. By @JacobBunge 88d

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U.S. to Offer Loans to Lure Developing Countries Away From Chinese Telecom Gear

Stu Woo - WSJ 89d 2 tweets

The U.S. government is embarking on a push to persuade developing countries to shun Chinese telecommunications equipment, offering financial assistance to use alternatives that Washington says are safer and have fewer strings attached.

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Chad P. Bown US to subsidize African countries' purchases of telecom gear made by firms from Sweden, Finland and South Korea to incentivize them not to purchase from Huawei and ZTE. (US does not have a telecom gear manufacturer of its own to subsidize.) 89d

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When We Can Hug Again, Will We Remember How It Works?

Nytimes.com 91d 1 tweets

How to navigate when you should and shouldn’t hug someone — and how not to hold on too long.

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Chad P. Bown ‘Hugs are good for humans — perhaps more valuable than many of us realized, until we found ourselves missing them.’ THIS is the pandemic story I’ve been waiting for. The science of hugs,** by @ACShilton __ **also sometimes hugs are not OK. 91d

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Chad P. Bown Here @PIIE we have been thinking HARD about practical ways for policymakers to help rebuild the global economy. On October 20, we launch our new project titled, coincidentally, Rebuilding the Global Economy. Watch this space, and subscribe for updates... piie.com/subscribe pic.twitter.com/pTqJ2MuTKp 93d

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Chad P. Bown TOMORROW (!!!) is the launch of our new @PIIE project, Rebuilding the Global Economy! Concrete solutions for how policymakers can create a more inclusive world economy. Subscribe for #PIIERebuilding updates: piie.com/subscribe pic.twitter.com/GDMzic5BIv 88d

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Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

ProPublica 95d 9 tweets

Trump’s trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas. The results so far? Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.

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Chad P. Bown Trump’s USTR Robert Lighthizer: A 2017-2020 Retrospective. By @LydiaDePillis 94d

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The US is trying to use export controls to restrict Huawei’s access to semiconductors

PIIE 95d 1 tweets

The Trump administration has implemented a series of export controls targeting Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

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Chad P. Bown Semiconductor supply chains are complex. The Trump administration is attempting to disrupt them with export controls. The unintended consequences could be profound. 95d

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2020 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to U.N. World Food Program

Nytimes.com 99d 12 tweets

The agency was awarded the prize for providing food assistance to millions around the world, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Chad P. Bown United Nations World Food Program, established in 1961 after a proposal by US President Eisenhower, helps people affected by some of the world’s most devastating humanitarian disasters. In 2020, it won the Nobel Peace Prize. 99d

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U.S.-China Trade War: Analyst says the phase 1 trade deal is more political than economics

Fortune 100d 2 tweets

Peterson Institute’s Chad Bown talks about how the U.S.-China trade deal is good for election, but does little to resolve issues of the trade war

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Chad P. Bown THIS analyst says the US-China trade deal targets were always ‘too aspirational’. (video feat. analyst with bad haircut saying this included no extra charge) 100d

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WSJ News Exclusive | Moderna Vows to Not Enforce Covid-19 Vaccine Patents During Pandemic

Peter Loftus - WSJ 100d 7 tweets

The move means other drugmakers or governments wouldn’t need to fear that Moderna would try to block any other Covid-19 vaccines the company argues are based on any proprietary technology.

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Chad P. Bown Moderna won’t enforce its patents related to its Covid-19 vaccine during the pandemic. Removes fears that Moderna would try to block other drugmakers or governments from other Covid-19 vaccines based on the company's proprietary technology. By @Loftus 100d

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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Bloomberg.com 101d 1 tweets

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Chad P. Bown WTO members reportedly settle on two final candidates -- Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee -- to advance to final round of campaign to be the next leader of the organization. By @BBaschuk 101d

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The Semiconductor Standoff : The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR.org 101d 3 tweets

As the trade war continues, China hasn't purchased nearly as many exports from the United States as it previously agreed to. There was one bright spot though: semiconductors — but that may soon change.

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Chad P. Bown Trump suddenly makes it harder for US companies to export semiconductors & equipment, not only to China. National security concerns, yes. But this particular approach could backfire. My chat with @CardiffGarcia for @TheIndicator 🎙️ PODCAST 🎙️ [9 min] 101d

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Chad P. Bown Come for an update on WTO director general race, stay for a hard-hitting interview about supply chains, FDI and the future of work with the very great @BJavorcik By @AlanBeattie 103d

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How Trump's export curbs on semiconductors and equipment hurt the US technology sector

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President Donald Trump’s much-touted “phase one” trade agreement with China is falling well short of its goal. Under the deal, Trump pledged that China would purchase an additional $200 billion of US exports over 2020 and 2021.

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Chad P. Bown The Trump administration has been quietly putting increasingly strict limits on American exports of high tech products. Not only to China, but also to American allies. If done wrong, the consequences are profound. My long read from this week 105d

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US curbs on high-tech exports could worsen China's struggling phase one purchases

PIIE 107d 2 tweets

Through the first eight months of 2020, semiconductors and the equipment required to produce them constituted nearly 25 percent of China’s total imports of goods covered by the phase one agreement with the United States.

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Chad P. Bown At current pace, China is already falling short of buying the US exports Trump pledged under his "historic" Phase One deal. But without the buoyancy of the US semiconductor industry exports, China’s purchases for 2020 will slip farther out of reach. 107d

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Chad P. Bown China is falling short of buying the US exports Trump pledged under his "historic" Phase One deal. By taking away US semiconductor exports with his administration's additional export controls, those pledges for 2020 slip even farther out of reach. 103d

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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Bloomberg.com 108d 1 tweets

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Chad P. Bown WTO reportedly gives EU right to impose tariffs on $4 bn of US exports over illegal US subsidies to Boeing. US already retaliating over EU subsidies to Airbus. Ruling sets scene for US & EU to negotiate an end to this long-running mess. By @BBaschuk 108d