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Global trade growth is lackluster, so why all the controversy?

by Kai Ryssdal

Oct 31, 2016

Kai Ryssdal talks with Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times about why global trade isn’t on the rise any more.

An inflatable Trojan horse is seen as people demonstrate outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels, on September 20, 2016 to protest against huge transatlantic trade deals linking Europe with Canada and the United States.

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It's time for a new round of trade talks: T-TIP

by Tracey Samuelson

Oct 22, 2015

On the heels of the TPP, the US and Europe are negotiating their own trade rules.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy chats with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry before a meeting in Madrid on Monday. One of their key discussions included the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

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