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CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies · 370 episodes with transcripts

Trade experts Scott Miller and Bill Reinsch break down the buzz around trade, how it affects policy, and how it impacts your day-to-day. The Trade Guys is a weekly podcast from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.

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Trump-Xi Summit, USTR's G20 trade ministers meeting, and EU-China Trade Updates

October 5, 2026

Scott Miller (0:00)

I'm Scott. I'm Bill.

Alex Kisling (0:02)

And we're The Trade Guys.

You're listening to The Trade Guys, a podcast produced by CSIS, where we talk about trade in terms that everyone can understand. I'm Alex Kisling, and I'm here with Scott Miller and Bill Reinsch, the CSIS Trade Guys. Thanks for listening to The Trade Guys. On today's episode, we break down what came out of the…

Scott Miller (1:15)

Well, it's always hard to tell because there's so much that happens that's unseen in conversations, in meetings and in atmospherics with these things. They're difficult to evaluate beyond the public displays, which are often not particularly relevant to what happens in the future. So, it appeared to be well-timed…

So, he puts an interesting structure to these things because of his past experience. I think that it appeared to be well done in terms of what they intended to execute. From a trade standpoint or economic policy standpoint, I think it seemed to have the effect of reducing tensions, which I see as a good thing.

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