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Trade Off: Stories of Globalization and Backlash

Is globalization in decline?

by David Brancaccio
Aug 18, 2017
Trade barriers may rise and fall, but it's not a case of extremes, one expert says.
Is our world getting more or less globally connected?
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Trade Off: Stories of Globalization and Backlash

"We make German cars, in America"

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Aug 16, 2017
Spartanburg County made a big bet on globalization when they landed a BMW manufacturing facility 25 years ago. Here's what that looks like today.
Inside Assembly North at BMW's Spartanburg manufacturing facility, the biggest BMW factory in the world.
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How NAFTA negotiations might affect the tequila business

by Robert Garrova
Aug 15, 2017
Javier Martinez, CEO of Martinez Brands, said NAFTA negotiators need to be "firm" in discussions.
Patron Distillery employees put labels and check bottles of tequila during the process of production in Atotonilco, Jalisco State, Mexico.
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How NAFTA renegotiations could threaten America’s love affair with tequila

by Jana Kasperkevic
Jul 24, 2017
Happy National Tequila day!
Patron is the go-to brand of tequila for 15 percent of millennials. 
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The Trump administration may want to keep NAFTA after all

by Ryan Kailath and Janet Nguyen
Jul 18, 2017
The White House has released a list of terms for renegotiating the trade agreement.
Former president Gerald Ford, then U.S. President Bill Clinton, former president Jimmy Carter and former president George Bush applaud after the signing of side agreements to the North American Free Trade Agreement on Sept. 14, 1993 at the White House in Washington, D.C.
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The worrisome news in China’s economic scorecard

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 17, 2017
Despite all the president’s complaints on the campaign trail about China and the unbalanced trading relationship the U.S. has with them, the Trump administration and China are scheduled to announce the details on bilateral trade talks this week.  The Chinese economy continues to grow; it’s up a fresh 6.9 percent during the second quarter. But […]
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The agriculture industry urges caution on the NAFTA renegotiation

by Annie Baxter
Jul 17, 2017
The Trump Administration released its objectives for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, our trade deal with Mexico and Canada. President Trump has called NAFTA the worst trade deal ever, citing factory jobs that moved to Mexico. The Trump Administration wants to “maintain existing reciprocal duty-free market access for agricultural goods” and […]
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Is Trump headed for a trade war at the G-20 summit?

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 7, 2017
US guidance has been a constant at the economic gathering. That's not the case this year.
President Donald Trump arrives at the start of the the G20 summit on July 7, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany. 
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Whatever happened to the U.S. trade deal with Europe?

by Ryan Kailath
Jul 6, 2017
We take a look at the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, the U.S. trade agreement with the European Union.
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Uncertainty over U.S. trade policy frustrates allies

by Annie Baxter
Jun 30, 2017
Do imports of foreign steel and aluminum compromise national security? President Trump told the Commerce Department to speed up its investigation of that question and come back with some answers today. It didn’t happen. Officials said that was due to “unanticipated complexities.” But China, the European Union and other steel-exporting nations, fearing the U.S. could  […]
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