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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, 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

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Supply chain crunch easing, but ports as bad as ever Premium content

      Weakening world trade has reduced logistics snarl-ups, though poor infrastructure remains

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Trade SecretsClimate change
      Trade should play its part in saving the planet

      Mutual mistrust hampers ability of free-traders to help environmentalists attain their goals

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Business (and trade frictions with partners) as usual in Washington Premium content

      Joe Biden’s brand of trade policy doesn’t have much to do with Congress

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      Trade SecretsProtectionism
      America’s deep suspicion of globalisation makes it an outlier

      The victory of radical leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is better news for open trade than US Republican gains

    • Monday, 7 November, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Oh, what a lovely subsidy war Premium content

      US doesn’t need international approval to shell out trade-distorting cash for green tech

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Trade SecretsGlobal trade
      The good luck that’s still needed to avoid a world food crisis

      Official efforts to increase grain exports despite the war in Ukraine have only had a marginal impact

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Trade SecretsUS-China trade dispute
      Biden goes it alone in his trade assault on China

      The US is taking a big risk in imposing semiconductor export controls without allies on board

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Governments are facing a stormy world economy alone Premium content

      There’s not much policy co-ordination going on, and countries are using trade and finance links as geopolitical weapons

    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
      US trade
      How to head off a new transatlantic trade war

      An EU-US bargain over green subsidies can stop electric vehicles becoming the new Airbus-Boeing dispute

    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Why the untangling of global supply chains isn’t good news Premium content

      An anticipated slump in demand is undoing the worldwide cargo congestion of the past two years

    • Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
      Trade SecretsUK agriculture
      Deregulation is no short-cut to creating world-class industries

      The Netherlands’ amazing success in high-tech farming shows complying with EU rules can be a competitive advantage

    • Monday, 3 October, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      The UK’s global excuses for its homegrown problems Premium content

      Pointing at the febrile nature of bond markets is not a substitute for fessing up to bad decisions on tax

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