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Moreover, these trade
agreements
are often asymmetric--the North insists on the South opening markets and eliminating subsidies, while it maintains trade barriers and subsidizes its own farmers.
Free-trade
agreements
do not ensure free trade.
Most international borders in the Middle East and North Africa were drawn by imperial powers – Britain, France, and Italy – either after World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire (the Sykes-Picot agreements), or, as in Libya and Sudan, earlier.
Over the last three years, we have expanded our network of free-trade
agreements
to include the Pacific Alliance and, more recently, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
That will make a total of 13 free-trade agreements, providing preferential access to 52 countries with 1.3 billion potential consumers.
Genuine partnership is difficult to achieve when resource-rich countries view foreign mining and drilling companies only as adversaries, seeking unfair and inequitable contracting
agreements.
A demand of this kind was not made of Egypt or Jordan when Israel signed peace
agreements
with those countries, and it constitutes an entirely useless obstacle on the road to peace with the Palestinians.
At the same time, the US is moving forward with next-generation trade
agreements
– the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – that will raise standards across both the Asia-Pacific region and the Atlantic and will have positive spillover effects in Africa.
In other areas, including labor rights, these
agreements
could help make higher standards the global norm.
In Riga, the EU’s leaders will reaffirm the so-called deep and comprehensive free-trade
agreements
concluded with Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.
The most important signal will be the EU’s pledge that these
agreements
will take effect.
By confirming the Eastern Partnership agreements, the EU’s leaders will demonstrate that they are not prepared to acquiesce in a new Yalta-style division of the continent that would deprive these countries of their right to choose their own destiny.
First, when discussion moves beyond generic principles into detailed policy proposals, it’s much more difficult to reach clear
agreements
among 20 negotiators than among seven.
As hard as Modi tries to put a positive spin on his recent visit to China, highlighting the 24 mostly symbolic
agreements
that were concluded, he cannot obscure the harsh strategic realities affecting the bilateral relationship.
Minimum-wage laws and labor
agreements
often make the least productive workers unaffordable to law-abiding employers.
It is time for China to seriously consider allowing the renminbi to float freely, while reserving the right to intervene when it must, and tighten the management of cross-border capital flows (permissible under last November’s G-20 agreements).
But, like all good agreements, the deal is a “win-win”: it helps India cope with crippling energy shortages by tripling its nuclear power generating capacity, and it provides major business opportunities for American companies to sell reactors and nuclear technology.
This economic siege, zealously enforced even by Arab and Islamic banks, followed the new Hamas-led government’s refusal to accept the demand by the “quartet” – the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia – that it recognize Israel, accept all previous
agreements
with Israel, and renounce terrorism.
One of the first challenges for the new government will be to convince the international community that it respects previous Palestinian
agreements.
By announcing the acceptance of previous
agreements
and supporting the Arab peace initiative, the new government should be able to bring economic normalcy to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority.
As it stands, inadequate cross-border coordination and enforcement of international
agreements
is a major impediment to crisis prevention and management.
Of course, given today’s hyper-partisan environment in the US, there is a danger that fast-track negotiating authority – under which Congress binds itself to an up-or-down vote on trade
agreements
(thereby precluding amendments and filibusters) – will not be given to the president.
The party was also arguing in favor of trade
agreements
to improve international competitiveness.
Trade
agreements
with Central America, Colombia, Chile, and Peru could also be at risk.
So could nationalism: there is a certain poetic symmetry at work when local left-wing activists complain about threats to national self-determination – just as Trump did – in arguing against the TPP and other trade
agreements.
From the EU’s perspective, the terms of any British deal would have to be at least as stringent as those in the existing association
agreements.
When confronted with this exodus of high-value service jobs and businesses, Britain would surely balk and accept the intrusive regulations entailed by Swiss and Norwegian-style EU association
agreements.
Economists might respond by suggesting that mortgages, insurance contracts, and other
agreements
could be indexed to the price level, adjusting payments to the contemporary rate of inflation.
Such mega-regional trade
agreements
are complex, with many devils in the detail.
International trade is about getting access to a bigger market, and trade
agreements
involve mutual reduction of barriers, including all kinds of non-tariff rules that minimize competition in the provision of services.
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