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Because the selective tariffs threatened by the Commission will affect finished products, not inputs like steel, the damage inflicted on EU consumers by European countermeasures will be smaller than the damage inflicted on the US economy by Trump’s steel tariffs.
We will organize a cartel of our producers and ask them to increase the price they charge to US consumers.”
In other words, to the extent that Trump just wants allies to reduce their exports to the US, this can be accommodated by EU producers increasing prices and pocketing the higher revenues – never mind that US consumers of steel would thereby be subsidizing foreign steel producers.
Not long ago, consumers, workers, and community members rose up in a global shareholder spring, aimed at companies that were acting in bad faith, by rewarding failing CEOs, flouting environmental regulations, or failing to respect workers’ rights.
We are now seeing a similar movement, with consumers turning against companies that support an administration embodying values they reject.
Recently, however, concern has been expressed – from within the diamond trade – that the scope of the Kimberley Process is too limited, and that consumers have thus been lulled into believing that there are no longer any ethical problems with diamonds.
If consumers insist on buying only ethical diamonds, traders might be able to push the demand back to their sources.
As this clean-up from the Great Recession continues, one thing is clear: the source of global demand in the future will be the billions of consumers in Africa, China, and India.
But it will take time to activate that demand, for what is now being produced around the world for industrial-country consumers cannot simply be shipped to emerging-market consumers, especially the poorer ones among them.
If we want to talk about billions of new consumers, rather than the tens of millions who have incomes similar to the middle classes in industrial countries, we must recognize that many emerging-market consumers have much lower incomes than industrial-country consumers, and live in vastly different conditions.
Consumers in most countries don’t realize this, because the true costs are hidden by subsidies.
This was no easy task: scientists are critical consumers of information, and they do not always agree with one another.
Third, consumers are generally not adept at dealing with interest-rate risk.
Dumping – selling products at prices that are lower than the cost of production – clearly helps American consumers, even though it hurts American firms.
But that is not different from a technological development that allows some US firms to produce more cheaply, thus helping American consumers and hurting other US producers.
Like dumping, that, together with explicit industrial subsidies, is an “unfair” policy that nonetheless actually helps American consumers.
Looking ahead, the US government should focus on combating foreign governments’ trade policies – such as technology theft, non-tariff barriers to US exports, and forced technology transfers – that hurt American firms without any offsetting benefits to American consumers.
The collective dollar value of BRIC consumers is estimated conservatively at just over $4 trillion, possibly $4.5 trillion.
If this pace is maintained, BRIC consumers will be adding another $1 trillion to the global economy by the middle of this decade.
By the end of the decade, they will be worth more than US consumers.
Just as free trade provides the lowest-cost goods and services, benefiting both consumers and the most efficient producers, global academic competition is making free movement of people and ideas, on the basis of merit, more and more the norm, with enormously positive consequences for individuals, universities, and countries.
At the same time, consumers must be open to using products that they do not own.
But, if businesses, governments, and consumers each do their part, the Circular Revolution will put the global economy on a path of sustainable long-term growth – and, 500 years from now, people will look back at it as a revolution of Copernican proportions.
Bitcoin, with its capacity for anonymity, could certainly help to make the global financial system more secure, saving consumers and businesses significant inconvenience and expense.
The blockchain essentially serves the “ledger” function that banks do today, but at a fraction of the cost to consumers and businesses.
Costs are being pushed higher by the arrival of new medical technologies, aggressive marketing of pharmaceuticals directly to consumers, and the public's high hopes for medical miracles.
A stronger renminbi lowers the cost to Chinese consumers and Chinese firms of imported products as expressed in renminbi.
The most significant factor – one that policymakers have long ignored – is that a high proportion of the food that India produces never reaches consumers.
China’s leaders must cope with an asymmetry between what they can deliver and what consumers demand.
This undermines consumers’ faith in firms’ willingness or ability to guarantee their privacy, while making it difficult for companies to claim the moral high ground when, say, China’s government restricts their domestic operations.
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