Barriers
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Millions of Europeans want EU governments to lower their
barriers
to developing countries’ exports, cancel Third World debt, and increase foreign aid.
For starters, by lowering trade and investment barriers, globalization has created a sort of winner-take-all environment, in which the most technologically advanced actors have gained market share through economies of scale.
Other imperatives include shrinking the budget deficit, removing internal
barriers
to trade, and encouraging private investment.
Yet, increased participation in the world economy resulting from lower trade
barriers
will only be possible if Africa's regional institutions are strengthened.
Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational
barriers
to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.
The TTIP would eliminate all trade tariffs and reduce non-tariff barriers, including in agriculture; expand market access in services trade; bring about closer regulatory harmonization; strengthen intellectual-property protection; restrict subsidies to state-owned enterprises; and more.
The best way to deal with the economic, political, and humanitarian concerns raised by trade agreements is via transition rules, temporary income support, and retraining, as opposed to maintaining protectionist
barriers.
It is vital to remove non-tariff barriers, such as localized rules and restrictions not based on scientifically legitimate safety or health concerns, despite political pressure to maintain or tighten them.
The challenge for large organizations is to harness their employees’ knowledge by breaking down
barriers
and bringing people together to share insights and information.
Obama is seeking Trade Promotion Authority, a necessary prelude to gaining congressional support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would reduce
barriers
between the US and 11 other Pacific Rim countries.
In some land-locked African countries, gasoline costs three times the global average, making fuel prices one of the main
barriers
to agricultural growth.
For example, they hurt industries that use steel, such as automobile producers, as well as consumers who face higher prices for finished products, not to mention farmers and others who then face retaliatory
barriers
to exporting their own products.
If the
barriers
to private investment in urban infrastructure could be overcome, the world would benefit from lower CO2 emissions, faster economic growth, and sounder retirement savings.
And only three trials—all conducted in Europe—used sham acupuncture as a control, whereas no acupuncture trials controlled with placebos or sham acupuncture have been reported in China, owing to high cultural
barriers.
In the United States, businesses and labor unions use “fair trade” laws to construct what economist Joseph Stiglitz calls “barbed-wire
barriers
to imports.”
The EU proved over the last few decades that it could be a force for globalization – tearing down
barriers
between peoples and nations.
But there remain high political
barriers
to renewable energy and, even more so, to reducing inequality.
He and his team must, however, take the time to dismantle potential international
barriers
to success.
What Europe needs, instead, is a reform strategy that increases competitiveness and reduces
barriers
to competition.
This means that the US could erect
barriers
to almost three-fifths of Bangladeshi exports.
Yet developed countries have rendered politically impossible reforms that would reduce trade
barriers
for developing countries.
With policies ranging from export subsidies and nontariff
barriers
to intellectual-property piracy and tilting the domestic market in favor of Chinese companies, China represents, in the words of Harvard’s Graham Allison, the “most protectionist, mercantilist, and predatory major economy in the world.”
Although the EU’s main failings are strategic, there are also some institutional
barriers
to European influence in the world.
Despite much hue and cry about it, governments have in fact imposed remarkably few trade
barriers
on imports.
When everyone raises trade barriers, the volume of trade collapses.
Japan kept the yen undervalued and erected hidden
barriers
to foreign goods, precipitating strong pressure – and periodic arm-twisting – by the US for Japanese concessions.
Co-founder and CEO Evan Williams recently suggested that software developers were working on technology to evade government barriers, though he did not give specific details.
Moreover, there are important gaps with respect to disciplining export restrictions (which are meant to reduce uncertainties for import-dependent countries) as well as market-distorting subsidies and trade
barriers.
Many governments try to improve farmers’ incomes by setting high prices domestically and erecting trade
barriers
to keep out imports.
Many countries will benefit from US growth (if Trump does not simultaneously erect trade barriers).
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