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Unilaterally imposing tariffs on Chinese imports would likely trigger trade disputes, invite Chinese retaliation, and hurt US businesses that create wealth – and deliver affordable products to American consumers – by basing their production facilities in China.
Meanwhile, Trump has implied that he might somehow soften his stance on the trade issue if Xi offers to help rein in the North Korean regime’s nuclear ambitions.
But Xi, knowing that he has the upper hand on the trade issue, will not be easily swayed.
There is talk of currency wars, national management and regulation of banking, and growing demand for greater levels of trade protection.
Negotiating a trade deal with the EU after departure would be easy.
Britain has already accepted that Northern Ireland will have to stay in the customs union until the UK has concluded a long-term trade deal with the EU.
Trump’s administration might be tempted to address this group’s problems in isolation, with inward-looking policies targeting specific industries, or by attempting to limit trade competition.
Brazil’s bosses are cheering as loudly as its trade unionists for Lula nowadays, which is no surprise given the huge sums being spent on infrastructure, owing to massive public spending, the lavish capital-expenditure program of Petrobras, Brazil’s state oil company, and credits provided by state-owned banks to low-income housing.
Brazil’s terms of trade are now 18% higher than in 2002.
The Middle East’s population will continue to grow; but whether the region will also grow in global importance as a hub for trade and economic development will depend in part on its governments’ ability to reform public-health education and practice.
Over the past two decades, Turkey has made remarkable economic strides, transforming itself from Europe’s sick man into one of its most vibrant economies and a new center of gravity for trade in the Middle East.
Critical to this transformation have been infrastructure investment, support for medium-size firms, expansion of regional trade, and development of the tourism sector.
These policies comprised the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) of the 1980s and 1990s, when developing countries were forced to cut social programs, privatize public services, deregulate industries, eliminate trade protection, and make their labor markets more “flexible” (a euphemism for making it easier to fire workers).
Normally, a country’s current-account deficit (trade deficit minus transfers from other countries) is financed with foreign private capital.
As the account includes international payments for both trade in goods and financial claims, a deficit in a country’s Target account indicates foreign borrowing via the ECB, whereas a surplus denotes foreign lending via the ECB.
The Economics of Strategic ContainmentNEW DELHI – At their recent summit in Cannes, the G-20 shelved, if not buried, the World Trade Organization’s moribund Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
Crisis-weary Europe and America face a rising tide of protectionism at home, and are trying to find ways to blunt the edge of China’s non-transparent trade competitiveness.
Turning his attention from the Atlantic to the Pacific, US President Barack Obama – with his eye, once again, trained on China – has now unveiled a new regional trade initiative.
The answer lies in the fact that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), launched by Obama and the governments of eight other Pacific economies – Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam – is not just about trade.
The TPP’s nine sponsors have resolved “to establish a comprehensive, next-generation regional agreement that liberalizes trade and investment and addresses new and traditional trade issues and twenty-first-century challenges.”
Finally, the TPP seeks to bring into the ambit of a trade and investment agreement “new and emerging” issues.
In short, the US has moved to bring together all of the economies in the region that are worried about China’s beggar-thy-neighbor trade and exchange-rate policies.
Iran is also expected to eventually create new trade routes spanning the Mediterranean through the Indian Ocean all the way to the Sea of Japan and the Pacific, according to diplomats and economists in Tehran.
Moreover, it will also give the new Central Asian States trade routes outside the borders of Russia, a perhaps desirable option for states keen to secure their independence.
But some trade is already using these unfinished routes.
Ultimately, Tehran would also like to use these routes to build other trade and transport systems, most notably for natural gas and oil, via Iran for transhipment elsewhere.
Since 1992, it has negotiated agreements on regional communications and transport, tariffs, free trade and industrial zones, and joint border markets.
Most economies, however, are still locked into old patterns of trade, though some companies are exploring new trade options.
Iran is part of the new Caspian Sea bloc to deal with trade and environmental issues.
And last year it joined with the Central Asian states, Japan, China, and Russia to discuss reviving the ancient Silk Road, the legendary trade route that once snaked across Asia to Europe.
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