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

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    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
      Trade SecretsItalian politics
      The Italian populists won’t be mindlessly destructive on trade

      Despite repellent views on immigration and nationalism, the European hard right isn’t generally all-out protectionist

    • Monday, 26 September, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      The dollar that Washington doesn’t yet want to weaken Premium content

      An international consensus that the US currency is too strong seems some way off

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      Trade SecretsUK trade
      Liz Truss’s growth ambitions have little credibility on trade

      The UK economy still is too heavily influenced by the EU to be truly independent

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Leveraging up the World Bank to fund a global rescue Premium content

      The obsession with maintaining multilateral development banks’ credit ratings might be counterproductive

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Trade SecretsGerman economy
      Cutting Germany’s risky trade dependence on China

      Moves to diversify and rebalance Berlin’s export-industrial complex are welcome

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      China’s emergency lending threatens to undo progress on debt relief Premium content

      Plus: the late Queen Elizabeth’s brief, bold foray into trade policy on behalf of the Commonwealth

    • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
      Trade SecretsEU economy
      The wartime economic interventions that risk losing the peace

      A statist overreaction to an energy shock will cause long-term damage

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Trade policy will not determine the future of globalisation Premium content

      Economic shocks, climate change and collateral impact from other government actions are more important

    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      Trade SecretsEnergy crisis
      National self-sufficiency isn’t the answer to the energy shock

      Diversifying among different fuels, modes of supply and trading partners is the way for governments to create resilience

    • 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

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