{"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":"The One Rule That Made Global Trade in Generic Drugs Possible","slug":"the-one-rule-that-made-global-trade-in-generic-drugs-possible","published_at":"2026-07-14T07:32:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-trade-with-fexingo-wto-free-trade-agreements-and-international-commerce-7871813/the-one-rule-that-made-global-trade-in-generic-drugs-possible","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-0110.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/global-trade/episode-0110.mp3","summary":"Episode 110 of Global Trade with Fexingo digs into the single WTO rule that unlocked cross-border trade in generic pharmaceuticals: the 2005 amendment to the TRIPS Agreement that created a compulsory licensing pathway for export. Lucas walks through the decade-long negotiation between big pharma, developing nations, and public health advocates that produced the paragraph 6 system. Luna asks why only one country has ever used it — Rwanda, in 2007, to import HIV drugs from Canada. They explore the practical hurdles: manufacturing complexity, regulatory approval, political pressure. The episode closes on a forward-looking note about the WTO's ongoing waiver debate for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, asking whether the system is broken or just barely good enough. A concrete, numbers-driven look at how intellectual property rules shape who gets medicine and who doesn't. Recorded July 14, 2026. #WTO #TRIPS #GenericDrugs #Pharmaceuticals #CompulsoryLicensing #Rwanda #Canada #HIV #PublicHealth #IntellectualProperty #GlobalTrade #Paragraph6 #DohaDeclaration #COVID19 #VaccineWaiver #Economics #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 110 of Global Trade with Fexingo digs into the single WTO rule that unlocked cross-border trade in generic pharmaceuticals: the 2005 amendment to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":692,"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/the-one-rule-that-made-global-trade-in-generic-drugs-possible/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/the-one-rule-that-made-global-trade-in-generic-drugs-possible.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}