Trade

It’s Friday, which means it's time for our Reporter Roundtable when Idaho Matters gets you up to date on all the news that made headlines this past week.

With Election Day less than two months away, George Prentice talks with Boise State political science professor Ross Burkhart about what Canada's proposed EU associate membership could mean for Idaho amid the current U.S.- Canada trade war.

Almost all of the wheat grown in the Pacific Northwest is for export, and even before President Trump's trade war, farmers were dealing with rock bottom prices and slagging global demand.

"A 32% tariff ... would be a big hit on our 30-year-old espresso recipe. And this is on top of an historically high coffee market.”

“Our top students aren’t finding jobs. Many companies are imposing hiring freezes.”

An interview with Isaac Stone Fish, author of America Second. The book is an exposé of America’s political and business ties to China, often with profound and hidden costs to U.S. interests.with Isaac Stone Fish, author of America Second. The book is an exposé of America’s political and business ties to China, often with profound and hidden costs to U.S. interests.

An interview with Shannon K. O’Neil, author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter. The book offers a case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years.

In the wake of a trade war during the Trump Administration, the United States, and Idaho in particular, was beginning to enjoy an increase of exports and imports from China.

In Idaho, there are millions of reasons to pay attention to the global concerns swirling around China, specifically millions of dollars in trade in and out of the Gem State.

Between Brexit and a big change with the royal family, Britain has been in the news a lot recently. The United Kingdom officially left the European Union…