Rethink Trade fights for good jobs, a healthy environment, robust and fair markets where small businesses can thrive, and safe and affordable medicine, food and goods. And we believe those who will live with the results must decide the policies affecting their lives. That’s why we work to replace the current “trade” rules that were formed by and for the world’s largest corporate powers with damaging results for most people and the planet.
Rethink Trade fights for good jobs, a healthy environment, robust and fair markets where small businesses can thrive and safe and affordable medicine, food and goods. And we believe those who will live with the results must decide the policies affecting their lives. That’s why we work to replace the current “trade” rules that were formed by and for the world’s largest corporate powers with damaging results for most people and the planet.
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with Lori Wallach
Welcome to Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach, where we unpack “trade” policy, law and politics and how it affects your daily life more than you think. Much of what is labeled trade today is not about actual trade stuff, like tariffs or quotas.
We’ll reveal how Big Tech, Big Pharma, Wall Street et al. use the trade brand to rig the rules against working people, consumers, small businesses and farmers and consolidate monopoly control, outsource jobs and undermine food safety and our environment. We’ll debunk myths used to sell the corporate-managed trade agenda, which also has done major damage in the developing world. And, we’ll share alternatives we support.
This latest Rethinking Trade podcast reveals what’s at stake with the latest Trump administration trade threats against Europe. Improbably, as he exited meetings with EU counterparts in Brussels last week, Commerce Secretary Lutnick said the quiet part out loud. Lutnick revealed to reporters plans to trade away American domestic manufacturing (by cutting steel and aluminum tariffs). But said he would only do so if European officials complied with Big Tech demands to gut European digital safeguards. He targeted the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA). We know the first part of that deal would be bad. Check out our latest podcast episode to understand why it’s a double whammy.
