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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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  • 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

  • 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

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