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Trump’s obsession with the trade deficit has led him to impose import tariffs on steel, aluminum, and a wide range of products from China.
In exchange, the US has agreed to import more peanuts and sugar from Canada, which implies that imports from other countries may fall.
It is not yet clear how import quotas will be allocated; but almost any quota-allocation system will stifle competition and innovation by favoring incumbents over new market entrants.
To be sure, Mexican producers will probably choose to incur the costs of the 2.5% US tariff on imported cars rather than meet the ROO or wage requirements (hence the need for import quotas).
We looked at how extraordinarily strongly the world's system of relative prices was tilted against the poor: how cheap were the products they exported, and how expensive were the capital goods that they needed to import in order to industrialize and develop.
By the time oil prices fell in 2014, the country was in no position to take the hit, with collapsing domestic production and capacity to import, leading to the current disaster.
In 2008, Libya was allowed to import $46 million in armaments from the US.
But import competition and labor arbitrage from emerging economies have also played a role.
Indeed, in the industries and regions hit hardest by import competition, years of simmering discontent have now boiled over, fueling support for populists promising to roll back globalization.
In recent years, slowing the pace of real exchange-rate appreciation to shelter domestic producers and employment from import competition seems to have gained clear precedence over disinflation.
In the US, the inflation rate has also been depressed by the rise in the value of the dollar relative to the euro and other currencies, which has caused import prices to decline.
The Republican Party, now in control of the legislative and executive branches, views a BAT – which would effectively subsidize US exporters, by giving them tax breaks, while penalizing US companies that import goods – as an important element of corporate-tax reform.
Disagreement over the BAT extends to business as well, with firms that export more than they import supporting it, and vice versa.
Trump has temporarily exempted Europe from his newly imposed import duties on steel and aluminum.
But his Sword of Damocles – high import tariffs – still hangs over Europe.
The EU also collects an import sales tax at the rate of value-added tax for systemic reasons.
And it collects extremely high import duties for agricultural products.
The system of agricultural protectionism that this compromise produced survives to this day, exemplified in import duties of 69% on beef and 26% for pork.
Because of these high import tariffs, European agricultural prices are, on average, around 20% above world market levels.
But even much higher supplies of wind power would improve security only marginally, because the UK would still have to import just as much oil (wind replaces mostly coal, rarely oil) and much of its gas, leaving it dependent on Russia.
The rapid spike in prices would harm all economies that import oil, regardless of where it comes from.
The emerging markets developed the institutions and the skills base needed to import and adapt technology, which is easier than generating new technology from scratch.
The US will either continue to import from China, with its consumers paying more, or it will import from Vietnam, India, and Africa.
In the mid-1970's, many parties to the NPT planned to import and develop enrichment and reprocessing facilities.
There was no across-the-board import tariff.
So, if Trump followed through on his campaign promise to impose a 45% import tariff on Chinese goods (most likely in violation of World Trade Organization rules), he would strike a major blow to US multinationals’ profits.
Qadaffi continued to import nuclear technology secretly, even as his diplomats privately negotiated a modus vivendi with the US and Britain.
Should he wake up one morning and decide to impose heavy import tariffs on European cars, things could get very ugly, very fast.
Something may well happen in the next several years to radically boost America’s savings rate by making US households feel suddenly poor: tax increases, a real estate crash, rapidly-rising import prices caused by a plummeting dollar, a deep recession, or more than one of the above.
Even as European growth turns down, sharply lower import prices would also bring down inflation.
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