{"podcast":{"title":"Global Trade with Fexingo: WTO, Free Trade Agreements, and International Commerce","slug":"global-trade-with-fexingo-wto-free-trade-agreements-and-international-commerce-7871813","podcast_index_feed_id":7871813,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/global-trade.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/global-trade/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":116,"summary":"Global Trade with Fexingo is a daily examination of the rules, institutions, and politics that govern international commerce. Lucas and Luna dissect the latest developments at the World Trade Organization, from dispute rulings and tariff disputes to the stalling Doha Round. They map the patchwork of free trade agreements — from the USMCA and RCEP to the AfCFTA — and assess how these deals reshape supply chains, labor standards, and intellectual property protections. Each episode grounds abstract policy in concrete numbers: the volume of trade at stake, the tariff lines that matter, the winners and losers in specific industries. The show is for trade economists, policy analysts, and business leaders who need to understand how trade tensions affect their operations. Lucas brings the global perspective; Luna stresses the real-world impact on exporters, importers, and workers. Together, they avoid ideology and focus on the data: what does a new EU carbon border adjustment mean for Indian steel? How does a Chinese export ban on rare earths hit electric vehicle production? Listeners leave each episode with a clearer map of the world's commercial arteries — and the choke points that coul…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T16:21:13.899418+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-trade-with-fexingo-wto-free-trade-agreements-and-international-commerce-7871813"},"episode":{"title":"How a Coffee Bean Created Global Commodity Futures","slug":"how-a-coffee-bean-created-global-commodity-futures","published_at":"2026-07-14T19:51:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-trade-with-fexingo-wto-free-trade-agreements-and-international-commerce-7871813/how-a-coffee-bean-created-global-commodity-futures","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-trade-with-fexingo-wto-free-trade-agreements-and-international-commerce-7871813","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/global-trade/episode-0111.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/global-trade/episode-0111.mp3","summary":"Episode 111 of Global Trade with Fexingo unpacks the 19th-century innovation that made commodity futures trading possible—and how a single shipment of Brazilian coffee in 1842 changed the rules of global price discovery. Lucas and Luna trace the origin of standardized contracts from the port of Santos to the Chicago Board of Trade, showing how 'to arrive' contracts evolved into the futures markets that now underpin everything from wheat to crude oil. They explain the two key mechanisms—standardization and margin—that transformed volatile cargo shipping into a predictable financial instrument. Along the way, they reveal why the Coffee Exchange of New York still matters for your morning cup price. No nostalgia: they connect this history directly to July 2026, when the same basic structure still governs $400 trillion in annual notional trading volume. A surprising story about how a perishable bean taught the world to hedge risk. #CoffeeFutures #CommodityMarkets #BrazilianCoffee #CBOT #ChicagoBoardOfTrade #PriceDiscovery #Hedging #RiskManagement #FinancialHistory #GlobalTrade #CoffeeExchange #Santos #Standardization #MarginTrading #July2026 #Economics #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 111 of Global Trade with Fexingo unpacks the 19th-century innovation that made commodity futures trading possible—and how a single shipment of Bra…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":635,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/global-trade-with-fexingo-wto-free-trade-agreements-and-international-commerce-7871813/episodes/how-a-coffee-bean-created-global-commodity-futures/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-trade-with-fexingo-wto-free-trade-agreements-and-international-commerce-7871813/how-a-coffee-bean-created-global-commodity-futures.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}