{"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 Pharmaceuticals Possible","slug":"the-one-rule-that-made-global-trade-in-pharmaceuticals-possible","published_at":"2026-07-13T07:36:42+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-pharmaceuticals-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-0108.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/global-trade/episode-0108.mp3","summary":"Episode 108 of Global Trade with Fexingo examines the World Trade Organization's 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, known as TRIPS, which created the legal backbone for cross-border pharmaceutical trade. Lucas and Luna walk through how TRIPS established minimum 20-year patent protection, forced countries like India and Brazil to rewrite their patent laws, and why the 2001 Doha Declaration on public health carved out compulsory licensing exceptions. They look at specific cases: India's 2013 Supreme Court rejection of Novartis' cancer drug Glivec patent, and how that ruling shaped generic drug access in developing countries. They also discuss the current tension over COVID-19 vaccine IP waivers and what TRIPS flexibilities actually allow. The episode explains why without TRIPS, drug companies would have no incentive to sell patented medicines in markets where local copycats could instantly reverse-engineer them. #GlobalTrade #Economics #WTO #TRIPS #IntellectualProperty #Pharmaceuticals #PatentLaw #DohaDeclaration #CompulsoryLicensing #Novartis #Glivec #India #GenericDrugs #PublicHealth #COVID19 #VaccineWaiver #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 108 of Global Trade with Fexingo examines the World Trade Organization's 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":605,"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-pharmaceuticals-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-pharmaceuticals-possible.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}