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Moreover, the Bush and Clinton Administrations warned that Japan should not export its way out of trouble, as if a trade surplus resulting from export growth was somehow “unfair.”
Japan is a country with a structural trade surplus – ie, exports are likely to remain above imports on a sustained basis because Japan’s trade surplus results from an excess of national saving over investment.
If international trade and financial markets are allowed to operate freely, Japan’s recovery will come faster than in the past decade, benefiting the entire world.
Indeed, this ideological divide is likely to become more defined in the coming years, as the independence of central banks around the world is threatened by new rules and regulations; as China – and, more generally, Asia – export inflation (reflected in US import prices); as protectionism rises, hitting free trade hard; and as new productivity-enhancing innovations, such as the Internet, remain absent.
The tobacco industry and other vested interests argue that tax increases on tobacco products fuel illicit trade.
In high-income countries, where taxes have increased tobacco prices, illicit trade is less widespread than in low-income countries with few taxes on tobacco.
Indeed, many countries – including Chile, Brazil, Hungary, Spain, and the United Kingdom – have increased tobacco taxes while curbing illicit trade.
Two legacies of the truncated United Kingdom survived: free trade and free movement of labor between Britain and the new Irish state.
Likewise, the ten MPs of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Union Party, on whose support the government now depends, are torn between wanting free trade with the South and fear of being sucked into the Irish Republic if and when the rest of Britain leaves the customs union.
For starters, given the eurozone’s huge trade surplus, doing so would incur strong international resistance.
It has consolidated its control over the strategic corridor between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, through which one-third of global maritime trade – worth $5.3 trillion last year – passes.
Focused obsessively on three issues – trade, North Korea, and Iran – Trump has watched quietly as China builds up its military assets through frenzied construction of permanent facilities on newly reclaimed land.
With trade open and unrestricted, with exchange rates gone, labor in each country has lost much, if not all, of its pricing power.
Farmers in Iowa and other heartland states turned out heavily for Trump in 2016, only to find that he regards them as acceptable casualties in the trade war he wants to launch against China, and perhaps Mexico, too.
Trump has revealed a profound lack of understanding of complex policy matters: national security, foreign affairs, immigration, taxation, economic inequality, health care, education, the environment, trade, abortion, religious rights, free expression, and much else.
But in the longer term, with deficits looming, international trade agreements torn up, and totally inadequate spending on vital infrastructure, education, and health care, things could turn out very badly.
If Trump Ruled VeniceSAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – Marco Polo, the famous thirteenth-century Venetian merchant, was one of the first Europeans to trade with China.
In this imaginary history, Venice assembles a council of experts to decide whether the risks posed by the trade deficit merit retaliation in the form of tariffs, quotas, or potentially even a ban on trade with China.
They implement Fabbro’s recommendations, and, as he had predicted, Venice becomes the world’s leading power, thanks to burgeoning trade, rapid economic growth, and broad prosperity – all enabled by free markets.
In fact, before long, all international trade is conducted in V$, which is universally accepted as a surrogate for gold.
All of this enables Venice to fund large public programs and maintain the world’s largest military, deepening its international clout as it leads the way in enforcing global trade rules and securing sea lanes.
Venice remains the world’s largest economy and leading trade power, enjoying a secure position at the top of global value chains.
He likens trade deficits to economic losses – almost to theft – and declares China the enemy.
Some of Trumpi’s advisers try to explain to him how trade deficits work in an economy that benefits enormously from having the world’s leading reserve currency.
Challenging the trade deficit, they tell him, can imperil the V$’s reserve-currency status.
Only then would Venice’s trade deficits become a problem, they tell him.
Centuries after mercantilism was abandoned in favor of highly successful laissez-faire policies, he decides to embrace it, imposing tariffs on Venice’s trade partners, beginning with China.
Eventually, the rest of the world reverts to mercantilist policies as well, imposing trade barriers and refusing to use the V$ for international trade.
China was mentioned only in terms of its supposed “cheating” on trade and currency matters.
The worst that could happen is a return to the 1930’s, when countries put up high trade barriers and retreated into isolationism, to the detriment of all.
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