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The most immediate and most obvious is that it is difficult to hold out long against the US, especially when the American government is under pressure from major domestic interest groups whose strong lobbying power might be used to lead a push for new trade protectionism.
What is worse is when the economic policy response becomes the equivalent of blaming foreigners: imposing new forms of trade barriers.
Despite strenuous debate about currency issues and trade imbalances at its summit in Seoul in November, the sole area of agreement concerned an issue on the G-20’s agenda for the first time – economic development.
The liberalization of trade and investment implied by the Single European Act was greatly inspired by a British deregulatory vision.
Even if a country’s trade unions enable such a policy through wage moderation, debtors would run into difficulties, because they borrowed on the assumption that high inflation would continue.
As the world economy sputters, African countries will have to develop trade with one another.
In 2013, African goods and services accounted for just 16% of trade within the continent, and just over 3% of world trade.
One problem is that most African countries produce the same type of commodities and trade them with very little value-added.
Policymakers must encourage greater specialization; differentiated goods and services will add value and volume to trade.
Logistics pose another obstacle to intra-African trade.
The African Development Bank estimates that it will double the volume of trade between the two countries, while reducing marginal costs by 30%.
It is often pointed out that, in the face of US President Donald Trump’s blinkered protectionism, the European Union has an opportunity to assume a larger international leadership role, while strengthening its own position in global trade.
The free-trade agreement recently signed with Japan will give the EU a clear advantage over the US in agriculture, and strengthening trade ties with Mexico could have a similar impact, as the US renegotiates the North American Free Trade Agreement.
A Sino-European partnership could be a powerful force offsetting America’s negative impact on international trade and cooperation.
In fact, with Trump seeking to use bilateral deals to secure reductions in America’s trade deficit, the possibility that the US will leave the WTO altogether – a nightmare scenario for the EU, which advocates shared norms over force – cannot be excluded.
As it stands, many EU countries resist the introduction of any trade restrictions, whether owing to an excessive commitment to liberal economic ideals or fear of jeopardizing their own interests in China by, say, establishing an EU mechanism for managing foreign investment.
The EU is an indisputable success, constituting the largest integrated economic area in the world and accounting for more than 30% of world GDP and around 17% of world trade.
But EU membership has always been about more than economic integration and trade flows.
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.
Europe Should Dump Anti-DumpingStockholm – Defending Europe’s economy against unfair international trade practices has long been a key element of the European Union’s external policies.
It is almost an instinct among some politicians and business leaders that if competition is deemed unfair, the European Commission should marshal new trade defenses.
But what are Europeans defending against, and what are “unfair” trade practices anyway?
In the absence of international competition regulations to prevent predatory pricing and other anti-competitive activities, trade defenses are a second-best option.
This fact has long been ignored by firms seeking trade defence.
What is new, however, is that the firms themselves might not gain from trade defense.
The very word “defense” creates an image of a nation state that is commercially connected to the rest of the world only via traditional trade.
For such a state, all imports would truly be foreign goods, and its trade defenses would consequently be directed only against foreign interests.
Although we still have traditional trade, we also have foreign direct investment, offshoring, and outsourcing.
Capital and know-how flows across borders, so traditional bilateral trade flows have been replaced by a complex web of international commercial relations.
This has major implications for trade defense.
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