{"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 Rice Trade Possible","slug":"the-rule-that-made-global-rice-trade-possible","published_at":"2026-07-08T10:11:50+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-rice-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-0098.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/global-trade/episode-0098.mp3","summary":"Rice is the staple food for half the world, but for decades it was almost entirely excluded from global trade. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack how the 2005 repeal of the U.S. Jones Act's domestic shipping requirement for Hawaii — wait, no — they drill into the surprising rule that actually broke rice open: a World Trade Organization dispute settlement ruling in 2005 that forced Japan to end its state-trading monopoly on imported rice. Lucas walks through how Japan had effectively banned foreign rice for centuries, the specific tariffs that fell from 490 percent to roughly 50 percent, and what it meant for Thai and Vietnamese exporters. Luna brings the consumer side: she produced an episode on the infamous 'rice shelf' in Japanese supermarkets where foreign rice was deliberately hidden alongside a government-mandated label. They also talk about the knock-on effect on African rice markets and why the same liberalization hasn't happened for India's basmati. The result: a concrete case showing that one WTO ruling, not a free trade agreement, opened the world's largest protected rice market. #RiceTrade #WTO #JapanRiceMarket #AgriculturalTrade #TradeLiberalization #StateTradingMonopoly #ThaiRice #VietnameseRice #Basmati #TradeDispute #FoodSecurity #GlobalTrade #Economics #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TradePolicy #RiceTariffs #Protectionism Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Rice is the staple food for half the world, but for decades it was almost entirely excluded from global trade. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack how…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":541,"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-rice-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-rice-trade-possible.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}