Border
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The public opposed last year’s Republican-backed corporate tax cut, Trump’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), his proposed
border
wall with Mexico, the decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the imposition of tariff increases on China, Europe, and others.
The good news is that the administration has not pursued radically protectionist policies, such as branding countries as currency manipulators, introducing across-the-board tariffs, or pushing for the
border
adjustment tax.
This, along with the much-ballyhooed
border
wall, will cut future labor supply, and thus economic growth, especially as the American population continues to age and drop out of the labor force.
Moreover, many of Trump’s campaign promises – building a Mexico-funded wall on America’s southern border, bringing back lost manufacturing jobs, deporting millions of illegal immigrants – are patently impossible to implement.
For the building blocks of a renewed peace process to be sustainable, an international force must be deployed along Gaza’s
border
with Egypt to prevent the constant smuggling of weapons and isolate the conflict.
Turkey, with some 75 million citizens, now hosts 2.7 million Syrian refugees, about 30% of whom live in 22 government-run camps near the Syrian
border.
Some in Washington charge that he has done too little to roust al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters from safe havens along the country’s
border
with Afghanistan.
Consider the demographic situation in eastern Siberia, where six million Russians live across the
border
from up to 120 million Chinese.
People nowadays know much more about conditions in different countries than they did in the past, and if moving across a
border
means that their income can be multiplied several-fold, they will try to do it.
The motivation is far more fundamental than the fact that India and China still have an unresolved
border.
For example, Indonesian officials have encouraged reform in Myanmar, helped to bring about an end to the
border
conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, and pushed for democracy and human rights to be enshrined in an ASEAN political and security community.
He wants to take in more refugees, while urging the EU to create a
border
force of 5,000 soldiers, and to accelerate repatriation of illegal migrants.
Israeli
border
controls have reduced the flow of people crossing the
border
to a trickle, and have suffocated Gaza’s economy, choking off imports and exports and cutting fuel deliveries and electricity.
More immediately, China’s territorial claims – particularly in the South China Sea, but also regarding its
border
with India – and its efforts to expand its influence over neighboring countries will force the US to navigate two overarching risks.
The
border
tax adjustment would give the US the international advantage of a value-added tax without levying that tax on domestic transactions.
Because the
border
tax adjustment does not change saving and investment, it wouldn’t change imports and exports.
Instead, the changes in taxes on imports and exports would lead to a rise in the value of the dollar that offsets the direct impact of the
border
tax changes.
More specifically, if the
border
tax adjustment is adopted, the dollar will increase by 25% relative to other currencies.
But if the
border
tax adjustment would not improve the US trade balance, why are congressional Republicans eager to enact it?
The
border
tax adjustment therefore pays for about two-thirds of the $190 billion cost of the corporate tax cut, and an even larger share when the lower corporate rate’s favorable effect on growth is taken into account.
There is substantial opposition to the
border
tax adjustment among US importers who are not convinced that the dollar will strengthen enough to balance the higher implicit import tax.
The first principle concerns the
border
issue, and Singh stated it at his first meeting with then-Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in Vientiane, Laos, in November 2004.
Singh told Wen that India was willing to find an accommodation with China on the
border
question, and that any agreement must take into account “ground realities.”
He was ready to cooperate on containing the Soviet Union, even agreeing to the installation of secret American intelligence listening posts along China’s
border
to track Soviet missiles.
Outdated and inefficient
border
procedures and inadequate infrastructure often mean high transaction costs, long delays, opportunities for corruption, and an additional 10-15% in the cost of getting goods to market – even more in landlocked countries.
In East Africa, procedural improvements have reduced the average clearance time for cargo crossing the Kenya-Uganda
border
from almost two days to only seven hours.
On the Laos-Vietnam border, a sub-regional cross-border transport agreement has cut cargo transit times from four hours to just over one hour.
A new customs component to a highway project between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City helped increase the total value of trade through the Moc Bai-Bavet
border
by 40% over three years.
Further negotiations were to decide the final status of the Palestinian Authority (ie, whether Palestine is to be an independent state), the
border
issue, the future of Jewish settlements, whether refugees could return to their homes, and the final status of Jerusalem, which both sides claim as their capital but which Israel controls in its entirety.
But from the start, the EU should give a signal by unilaterally opening its
border
to imports from the region.
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