Protectionist
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Global trade fell by some 60% from 1929 to 1932, as major economies turned inward and embraced
protectionist
trade policies, such as America’s infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
Indeed, their policymakers’ attention is likely to turn inward amid growing demands for
protectionist
measures.
In the 1980s,
protectionist
US policies successfully contained the growth of Japan, which, like China today, maintained a large trade surplus with the US.
The
protectionist
anti-globalization impetuses of the left are less visible in political parties than in labor movements, but these can shape political programs.
In that case, politics will become divisive and polarized, and the inclination toward
protectionist
“solutions” will increase, jeopardizing global economic openness.
Otherwise, pro-growth reforms will lose political legitimacy, enabling destructive nationalist, nativist, and
protectionist
forces to continue to gain traction and thus to undermine medium- and longer-term growth.
The euro stops countries like France and Italy from playing their old
protectionist
game of devaluing their currencies at German expense.
Trump, however, may pursue populist, anti-globalization, and
protectionist
policies that hinder trade and restrict the movement of labor and capital.
As in the 1930s, when
protectionist
and isolationist US policies hampered global economic growth and trade, and created the conditions for rising revisionist powers to start a world war, similar policy impulses could set the stage for new powers to challenge and undermine the American-led international order.
Indeed, the
protectionist
elements tacked on to these proposals make them decidedly anti-development.
It remains to be seen whether the US, with its economic might, can afford Trump’s
protectionist
approach.
Fillon is also an economic liberal – and is often characterized as a French Margaret Thatcher – whereas Le Pen is a
protectionist.
But, even then, more than 70% of steel imports were exempt from any
protectionist
measures.
But, because a cash-flow BAT would act like a trade barrier, America’s trading partners would rightly view it as a
protectionist
measure.
The leaders of Belarus or Kazakhstan seemed equally surprised by Putin’s statement, especially as Russia had just prohibited almost all imports of dairy products from Belarus in a
protectionist
ploy.
They are prone to attribute concerns about globalization to crass
protectionist
motives or ignorance, even when there are genuine ethical issues at stake.
A futile attempt to avoid a breakup for a year or two – after wasting trillions of euros in additional official financing by the core – would mean a disorderly end, including the destruction of the single market, owing to the introduction of
protectionist
policies on a massive scale.
After a run of growth, Brazil’s economy collapsed under Lula’s successor, former President Dilma Rousseff, whose “new economic matrix” entailed disruptive, interventionist, and
protectionist
policies.
Moreover, Brazil’s elites are less insulated and hostile to globalization than in the past, and they increasingly accept that
protectionist
postures are counterproductive.
But that risks an aggressive response from a
protectionist
Trump administration, and could produce self-reinforcing inflation as savers seek to spend their money before it loses value.
The only way to stem the rising tide of destructive populism and prevent the drift toward damaging
protectionist
measures is to reconnect with frustrated constituencies, and find ways to respond to people’s real economic grievances.
Trump seems to have abandoned earlier proposals for a border adjustment tax, and he may not follow through on all of his
protectionist
rhetoric.
The form that these standards take - and the increasing talk of using trade sanctions to impose them - is close to what
protectionist
lobbies in industrial nations seek.
But, even as
protectionist
sentiment frustrates cooperation, there is a global growth deal waiting to be done.
Generous pensions and
protectionist
laws are becoming permanent features of the landscape.
However, the contest is more accurately seen as one between an open and an introverted Turkey; between civilian, democratic rule and military tutelage; and between a globalizing and a
protectionist
economy.
Nothing works as potently to inflame
protectionist
sentiment as large trade deficits.
US trade policy has been remarkably resistant to
protectionist
pressure in recent years.
But local job losses have had an impact: many of the most affected communities were in the Midwestern and southern states that voted for Trump, largely because of his protectionist, anti-trade promises.
The
protectionist
impulse has been absent from the response to the current crisis so far, but that could change.
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