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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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  • 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

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    Trade Secrets
    India just signed a trade deal — really Premium content

    New Delhi makes an uncharacteristic decision, the UK moves to help Ukraine, and France heads towards business as usual

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    Globalisation
    Five reasons to be optimistic about the survival of globalisation

    Cross-border markets in trade, investment, data and labour have come through plenty of shocks before

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Trade Secrets
    Stopping the silicon chips falling where they may Premium content

    CEO of global semiconductor research hub Imec warns against wasting subsidies

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    Trade SecretsBrexit
    The EU and UK’s trade policies are both weakened by Brexit

    Britain struggles to point to any future benefits from leaving the bloc, while Brussels is drifting towards protectionism

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Trade Secrets
    Cushioning the blow of the global food crisis Premium content

    Self-sufficiency and reserve stocks of grain aren’t the no-brainer solutions they seem

  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
    Global trade
    Export controls risk exacerbating food crisis, WTO chief warns

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says countries with surplus stocks in products like grains should release them on world markets

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Trade SecretsAgricultural trade
    Global food crisis is the prisoners’ dilemma of trade

    It is in everyone’s interest to keep exports flowing, but no one wants to run short by being the only country that does

  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    Trade Secrets
    Another day, another false alarm about the death of the dollar Premium content

    Plans by Saudi Arabia, India, Russia and China to bypass American sanctions won’t threaten the US currency’s global dominance

  • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
    Trade SecretsWar in Ukraine
    The anti-Putin geopolitical alliance will struggle to broaden its reach

    Sanctions and arms supplies to counter Russia’s invasion are one thing, but running the world economy is quite another

  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
    Trade Secrets
    The case against punishing Russia at the WTO Premium content

    Removing most-favoured nation status will have little material impact and might damage the institution

  • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
    Trade SecretsWar in Ukraine
    Sanctions more than ethics have spurred corporate flight from Russia

    Continued presence of EU and US multinationals in China and Saudi Arabia belie their claims to be acting on conscience

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    Trade Secrets
    Putin’s war shakes loose the pieces of the international trade order Premium content

    The US previously siding with Russia over national security at the WTO looks an increasingly bad idea

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
    Trade SecretsWar in Ukraine
    Germany’s Nord Stream 2 decision shows sanctions haven’t worked

    Cautious, narrowly targeted measures will have little impact on Moscow, which can absorb significant economic pain

  • Monday, 21 February, 2022
    Trade Secrets
    Waiting for the trade shock from Ukraine Premium content

    Next chapter in global trade story now hinges on outcome of geopolitical crisis in eastern Europe

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    Trade SecretsIntellectual property
    A Covid vaccine breakthrough bypasses the stale debate on patent waivers

    Fractious World Trade Organization talks on overriding intellectual property rights look increasingly irrelevant

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