{"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 Rule That Made Global Fertilizer Trade Possible","slug":"the-rule-that-made-global-fertilizer-trade-possible","published_at":"2026-07-15T07:27:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-trade-with-fexingo-wto-free-trade-agreements-and-international-commerce-7871813/the-rule-that-made-global-fertilizer-trade-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-0112.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/global-trade/episode-0112.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Global Trade with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the single rule that enabled the massive global trade in fertilizers: the harmonized system of product classification. They trace how a seemingly mundane tariff code for urea, HN6, became the backbone of a $200 billion industry, shaping everything from Brazilian soybean yields to Indian food security. The episode dives into the 1970s diplomatic negotiations that created the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), and how its consistent numbering allows a bag of ammonium nitrate to move from a Russian port to a Kansas farm without customs chaos. Lucas explains why fertilizer tariffs are a flashpoint in trade wars, and Luna questions whether the HS system can adapt to new products like bio-stimulants. A concrete, numbers-driven look at how a list of six-digit codes feeds the world. #HarmonizedSystem #FertilizerTrade #GlobalTrade #Tariffs #Urea #Agriculture #WTO #TradeRules #HS6 #SupplyChain #Brazil #India #Russia #Economics #TradePolicy #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #GlobalTradeWithFexingo Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In this episode of Global Trade with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the single rule that enabled the massive global trade in fertilizers: the harmonized…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":569,"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-rule-that-made-global-fertilizer-trade-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-rule-that-made-global-fertilizer-trade-possible.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}