Current status: locked out of the flat because the rest of my family is napping. Oh well.

I am excited to join @piie.com, where I will continue to advance my research on U.S. trade policy alongside a leading group of experts committed to advancing global prosperity and developing practical policy solutions to contemporary economic challenges.

Peterson Institute for International Economics@piie.com · 2d ago

We're thrilled to announce @inumanak.bsky.social is joining PIIE as a senior fellow! Welcome, Inu! 🎉

As someone constantly asked how I started my career in trade policy and negotiations, here is a great primer! (Aside from @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social’s belief that services negotiators are one trick ponies, having started my career negotiating NCMs) mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

How Do You Get a Job in Trade Policy?

Holiday edition

mostfavourednation.substack.com

Thought I’d take some time out from my holiday (okay, find an excuse to sit inside in A/C) to answer one of the questions I get asked the most: How do I get a job in trade policy? open.substack.com/pub/mostfavo...

How Do You Get a Job in Trade Policy?

Holiday edition

open.substack.com

Evening.

Had to step away from the holiday for a couple of days to do some work. Some hard hard work.

Arguably, the new Section 301 on forced labour puts the UK (10% + MFN tariff) is a worse position, for these duties at least, than the EU (10% net of MFN tariff)

It's a bit more like No10 in the upper-midlands, right?

In this week's MFN, I discuss a troubling discovery that absolutely nobody could have ever predicted: mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/trade-nerd...

Things we actually love to see: the brawling

Trump announcing new tariffs on Spain in 3, 2, 1 …

The six year old has taken to writing threatening letters.

USM̶C̶A̶

If the north is so good why doesn’t everyone already live there. *logs off*

When a man is tired of [hydration], he is tired of life; for there is in [hydration] all that life can afford.

That doesn’t sound like me 😬

Russell Gowers@usget.bsky.social · last mo.

Enjoyable to see @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social at the SMMT. It’s always good when two panellists disagree on pretty much everything 😆 (amicably of course).

Tfw you send an email to thousands of people and it has a horrific typo in the first para.

All together now: rain rain rain rain RAIN RAIN RAIN

With my children's school offering optional pickup at 14.00, we will now see a true class divide: those whose parents love their children and those who love their office's aircon.

Lads, on this very hot day remember: if your antiperspirant doesn’t contain aluminium it probably isn’t working.

I’ll tell you what, other than being hotter than the face of the sun, Geneva is alright

Same week, two very different places …

It's becoming clearer how exactly the world has adjusted to the Strait of Hormuz shock. China is about 15% of global crude demand and import volumes have fallen by about a third between March and May. So roughly 5% of global consumption is being absorbed through domestic inventory drawdown.

Tariffs are dead … long live tariffs! New MFN … (Also lots of chat about non preferential rules of origin and the IAA) open.substack.com/pub/mostfavo...

Tariffs are dead, long live tariffs

S301, IAA, charts and other stuff

open.substack.com

@zatapatique.bsky.social current status: trying to find a really good school trip gif

Regretfully, this weather leaves me with only one option for survival with the kids: Clowntown

TFW you realise you should have worn a different tie

And it goes without saying but … BUY CHAD AND @soumayakeynes.ft.com’s BOOK! amzn.eu/d/0ba7Hx4N

Chad P. Bown@chadpbown.com · 2mo ago

seeing old friends like @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social is really great

Sitting next to the biggest train nerd ever, narrating every single stage of the Eurostar journey. Fess up. Which one of you is it?

My naturally instinct to arrive unreasonably early for things comes in handy when you find yourself at the wrong Amsterdam train station