Destroying Global Trade | Interview: Ryan Peterson

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The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Ryan Peterson, CEO of Flexport, a platform for global logistics, joins Jamie Weinstein to discuss the effects of President Trump’s tariffs and how companies are being swallowed by the trade wars. The Agenda: —Understanding the executive orders —Businesses are devastated by losses —How brands like Walmart are coping —Dealmaking with China —What is the end game? —Invasion of Taiwan and likely trade scenarios —Update on Houthi attacks —Advising President Trump The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and regular livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.9	Conditions apply.
0:32.2	Welcome to the Dispatch podcast.
0:33.8	I'm Jamie Weinstein.
0:37.4	My guest today is Ryan Peterson. He's founder and CEO of Flexport, a global logistics company
0:42.3	that helps other companies with end-to-end supply chain management services, including freight forwarding,
0:48.8	customs brokerage and trade financing, among other things. But for our purposes, he is an expert on kind of the tangible effects that are happening on
0:58.5	the ground as result of President Trump's Liberation Day tariffs.
1:03.2	So we talked to him about what his customers are telling him about the effects of tariffs,
1:09.4	what he has seen as a result of the, in global shipping,
1:13.2	as a result of tariffs, what he would recommend to President Trump and much more.
1:18.6	I think you're going to find this really informative.
1:20.6	So without further ado, I give you Ryan Peterson.
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