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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, 30 March, 2023
    Trade SecretsUS trade
    US Congress shares the blame for its own impotence over trade

    The Biden administration may be shooting from the hip but Capitol Hill is hampered by shortsightedness and special interests

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Trade Secrets
    How China may keep subverting sovereign debt workouts Premium content

    Beijing’s reluctance to restructure complicates Sri Lanka’s IMF rescue, plus the EU’s plan to save the Amazon through trade

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Trade SecretsCommodities
    EU seeks to tone down the imperial style in search for critical minerals

    A trade deal with Chile shows Brussels is trying to appear to be a development partner rather than a neocolonial extractor

  • Monday, 20 March, 2023
    Trade Secrets
    The banking crisis and the indispensable dollar Premium content

    With the Federal Reserve backstopping bank liquidity worldwide, the US currency has no effective challenger

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Trade SecretsAgricultural commodities
    Rich nations are not looking good in the palm-oil dispute

    Indonesia and Malaysia have a point in criticising tariffs that penalise sustainable producers

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    UK trade
    UK poised to remove import tariffs on Malaysian palm oil

    Britain’s move to cut duties as it seeks entry to CPTPP trade deal sparks concern among green groups

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    Trade Secrets
    Britain’s bumpy ride to the Asia-Pacific Premium content

    UK’s drive to join CPTPP trade deal more about spin and poison pills than substance

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Trade SecretsChinese trade
    The quick and easy guide for countries resisting Chinese trade coercion

    Australia and Lithuania have shown that finding new export markets is much faster than WTO litigation

  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Trade Secrets
    Local borrowing that’s not enough to stop a global debt crisis Premium content

    It’s good that more emerging markets are issuing sovereign bonds in their own currencies, but that can create its own problems

  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    Trade SecretsIndian business & finance
    Insular India’s exporters will struggle to fill Chinese shoes

    National trade strategy will make it hard for Indian companies to take full advantage of Beijing’s geopolitical problems

  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    Trade Secrets
    The tricky task of turning the World Bank green Premium content

    New president-presumptive Ajay Banga will lead a fractious organisation in a hazardous political landscape

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    Trade Secrets
    The EU’s turn to dodge litigation that stops it going green Premium content

    European governments sued by investors are deserting the Energy Charter Treaty en masse

  • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
    Trade SecretsEU business regulation
    Europe breaks new ground in backing strategic green industries

    Until now, industrial policy in the EU has been restrained by tough competition laws

  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    Trade Secrets
    Joe Biden’s green spending awakens Europe’s green-eyed monster Premium content

    An EU envious of US fiscal largesse is scraping together cash to fund its own industrial subsidies

  • 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

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