Chad P. Bown
@ChadBown
Reginald Jones Senior Fellow @PIIE and @Trade__Talks. Former State Department, White House, WTO, World Bank. I think about trade and policy. Probably too much.
SCOOP: We have figured it out!!! @SoumayaKeynes and I are getting the Trade Talks team back together - not to podcast, but to write a book explaining HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR Look for it at your local bookstore in April 2026, or pre-order it from here a.co/d/d4qPo3p
Donald Trump said on Friday that he is doubling his steel tariff on steel to 50 percent, from 25 percent currently, to prevent billions of dollars worth of foreign steel from continuing to enter the United States. by @tradereporter politico.com/news/2025/05/3…
U.S. Court of International Trade said the president had overstepped his authority under the federal emergency powers law he invoked. by @TonyRomm & @AnaSwanson nytimes.com/2025/05/28/bus…
NEW EXPORT CONTROLS? US reportedly orders EDA companies to stop selling semiconductor design software to China. by @Dimi et al ft.com/content/2c0db7…
MY LATEST: Fear that a foreign export restriction will imperil economic security has driven part of the recent tariffs. How even modest cooperation over trade/industrial policy now requires like-minded countries also commit not to use export restrictions. piie.com/publications/w…
UK and US are reportedly close to a limited trade pact that cushions the impact of Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs by granting lower-tariff quotas for British car and steel exports, according to officials in London and Washington. by @Aime_Williams et al ft.com/content/ca3837…
a huge honor to be invited to Glasgow for the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy conference
Needed and insightful as always keynote speech by @ChadBown at the #CITP2025 ! @centre4ITP
actually, it takes the AMAZING @PIIE village
.@ChadBown is tracking the trade war. Check it out here: piie.com/blogs/realtime…
Ford stops exporting pickup trucks, SUVs and sports cars to China because of retaliatory tariffs, the latest effect on the auto sector from the Trump’s escalating trade war. by @MikeColias wsj.com/business/autos…
Focus, for a moment, on all of the goods that remain hit by Trump's massive new tariff barrage. Excellent explainer and data viz from @nassos_ et al
The Chinese goods Americans most rely on, from microwaves to Barbies on.ft.com/4joGZDu
The Presidential Memorandum exempting smartphones — errr, things that have semiconductors in them — from some of Trump’s tariffs is now available whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
In 2021, @ChadBown joined us on #VoxDevTalks to discuss the aftermath of the first US-China trade war. Listen to the full episode here: voxdev.org/topic/trade/ma…
In historical terms, today’s exemptions do mirror Trump’s exceptions for smartphones and consumer electronics during the Trump 1.0 tariff barrage of 2018-19…
Trump reportedly has now decided to also exclude smartphones from the steep tariffs he first announced April 2. (Details on implementation TBD) by @Aime_Williams et al ft.com/content/3eb48a…
Trump reportedly has now decided to also exclude smartphones from the steep tariffs he first announced April 2. (Details on implementation TBD) by @Aime_Williams et al ft.com/content/3eb48a…
On this Friday night, after one of THE ALL TIME CRAZIEST weeks and fallouts from economic policy experimenting, what a treat to talk about all the TRADE and all the TARIFFS with the amazing @CardiffGarcia on one of my favorite podcasts, The New Bazaar
The latest New Bazaar episode features my chat with @ChadBown of @PIIE, the single best tracker of real-time trade activity in the world: eig.org/newbazaar/tari…