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Now, the White House has announced steep tariffs on steel and aluminum, supposedly to strengthen national security.
The steel tariff, for example, will help a small number of workers in the steel industry itself, while hurting a much larger number of workers in downstream industries like construction, oil and gas, and automobile manufacturing.
Before the European Union won a last-minute reprieve from the steel and aluminum tariffs, it announced that it was considering retaliatory tariffs on American goods, including whisky and motorbikes, to which the US responded by threatening tariffs on European cars.
Meanwhile, the EU and Asian steel-importing countries, like India and Indonesia, are preparing to adopt safeguard measures to counter a potential surge of imported steel diverted from the US.
The creation of America as a major economic power, after all, was made possible by giant steel mills, integrated railway systems, and the mobilization of enormous energy reserves through such ventures as Standard Oil.
Moreover, Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, while not targeted specifically at Russia, will cost the Russian economy upwards of $3 billion next year.
Ukrainian exports of steel have boomed on China’s appetite, but sooner or later that appetite will be sated, and Ukrainian steel producers will need new markets.
Most Europeans take it for granted that the US will attack Iraq, and that this act of unilateralism, coming in the wake of all the other irritants such as the ABM Treaty, the Kyoto Agreement, the steel tariffs and the International Criminal Court, will have a devastating effect on transatlantic relations.
As if all this were not enough, as the Davos meeting opened, America’s House of Representatives passed a bill requiring American steel to be used in stimulus spending, despite the G-20’s call to avoid protectionism in response to the crisis.
It is therefore difficult to see what the UK would gain from pursuing a national trade policy – especially at a time when the United States, under President Donald Trump, is pursuing policies (such as imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum) that show little regard for its smaller trade partners.
Meanwhile, China is working to steel its economy from a hostile external environment, as it engineers a transition to a more innovative, inclusive, and sustainable growth model.
Great bankers of the past like J.P. Morgan built industries like rail and steel.
No doubt, China must reject further investment in hulking steel mills and empty apartment buildings.
The shared steel initiative of 1952 could find its parallel in a German-Polish initiative to jointly manage natural gas imports.
In today's world, economic prosperity comes not from natural resources or production of industrial goods such as coal and steel, but from the production of new ideas and new products.
In July 2013, the leadership ordered the steel industry to restart the furnaces and the PBOC to ease credit.
For example, Trump reportedly launched a devastating trade war because he was “unglued,” and convinced during a meeting with steel executives that tariffs were a good idea.
How, then, can US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose substantial tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum be justified?
Trump no doubt sees potential political gains in steel- and aluminum-producing districts and in increasing the pressure on Canada and Mexico as his administration renegotiates the North American Free Trade Agreement.
But the real target of the steel and aluminum tariffs is China.
The Chinese government has promised for years to reduce excess steel capacity, thereby cutting the surplus output that is sold to the United States at subsidized prices.
Chinese policymakers have postponed doing so as a result of domestic pressure to protect China’s own steel and aluminum jobs.
For the US, the most important trade issue with China concerns technology transfers, not Chinese exports of subsidized steel and aluminum.
Although such subsidies hurt US producers of steel and aluminum, the resulting low prices also help US firms that use steel and aluminum, as well as US consumers that buy those products.
This brings us back to the proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Moreover, a so-called Section 232 investigation into the national security threat posed by unfair steel imports also takes dead aim at China as the world’s largest steel producer.
Yet European leaders must steel themselves for what is to come.
The most urgent was the German request to increase steel production from 10 million tons to 14 million – well above French levels.
Monnet had some knowledge of coal and steel, having been involved, as a League of Nations official, in finding a settlement for the question of Upper Silesia after WWI.
Meanwhile, the trade surplus is rising again, in part because China is dumping its excess supply of goods – such as steel – in global markets.
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