{"podcast":{"title":"Trade and Tariffs with Fexingo: International Commerce, Trade Wars, and Global Supply Chains","slug":"trade-and-tariffs-with-fexingo-international-commerce-trade-wars-and-global-supply-chains-7871709","podcast_index_feed_id":7871709,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/trade-and-tariffs.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/trade-and-tariffs/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":121,"summary":"Lucas and Luna dissect the mechanics of international trade — from tariff structures and trade-war escalation to the real-time reconfiguration of global supply chains. Each episode opens with a specific data point: a new WTO ruling, a sudden tariff hike on semiconductors, a shipping-cost spike out of the Red Sea. Lucas, a former trade journalist, walks Luna through the legal and economic logic behind the headline; Luna, a supply-chain analyst, pushes back with on-the-ground logistics data from Port of Shanghai container indices and factory PMIs. Together they trace how a 25% steel tariff in Washington reshapes auto-assembly plants in Mexico, how export controls on Dutch lithography machines stall China's chip ambitions, and how the USMCA's rules of origin are quietly redrawing North American investment flows. The show avoids both jingoistic cheerleading and academic detachment — it's for the procurement director who needs to know whether to hedge yuan exposure, the policy wonk tracking Section 301 exclusions, and the investor recalibrating country-risk models. Every episode ends not with a verdict but with a tension: if the EU slaps digital-services taxes on US tech giants, does t…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T12:20:17.875958+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trade-and-tariffs-with-fexingo-international-commerce-trade-wars-and-global-supply-chains-7871709"},"episode":{"title":"How Trade Wars Are Pushing Central Banks Into New Currency Battles","slug":"how-trade-wars-are-pushing-central-banks-into-new-currency-battles","published_at":"2026-07-11T05:58:54+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trade-and-tariffs-with-fexingo-international-commerce-trade-wars-and-global-supply-chains-7871709/how-trade-wars-are-pushing-central-banks-into-new-currency-battles","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trade-and-tariffs-with-fexingo-international-commerce-trade-wars-and-global-supply-chains-7871709","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/trade-and-tariffs/episode-0107.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/trade-and-tariffs/episode-0107.mp3","summary":"Lucas and Luna examine how the trade war is forcing central banks into a new era of currency competition. With the trade-weighted US dollar index at 120.7 and the yen weakening past 160 per dollar, they explore how countries like Japan, China, and emerging markets are responding. The episode dives into the Bank of Japan's dilemma, China's yuan strategy, and why the Federal Reserve's next move could redefine global trade flows. #TradeWar #CurrencyWar #CentralBank #USD #Yen #Yuan #BankOfJapan #FederalReserve #TradeFlows #EmergingMarkets #Economics #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TradeAndTariffs #GlobalMacro #Forex #MonetaryPolicy #July2026 Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Lucas and Luna examine how the trade war is forcing central banks into a new era of currency competition. With the trade-weighted US dollar index at 120.7…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":368,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/trade-and-tariffs-with-fexingo-international-commerce-trade-wars-and-global-supply-chains-7871709/episodes/how-trade-wars-are-pushing-central-banks-into-new-currency-battles/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trade-and-tariffs-with-fexingo-international-commerce-trade-wars-and-global-supply-chains-7871709/how-trade-wars-are-pushing-central-banks-into-new-currency-battles.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}