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When European corporations outsource labor-intensive manufacturing to low-cost countries but keep the rest of the production process in Europe, they greatly complicate matters for anyone trying to evaluate the economics of trade defense.
Imposing trade defense against such goods, even if legally warranted, is likely to create problems for globalized European companies.
But, even if the measures worked as supposed, the majority of trade defense measures are probably not directed against anti-competitive business practices.
More often it is the politics of protectionism that are the crucial factor behind trade defenses.
This raises a fundamental criticism Europe’s trade defense mechanisms.
International trade is by definition a competition between companies on an uneven playing field.
To create a completely level playing field in trade is impossible.
Fairness and Free TradeCAMBRIDGE – The global trade system faces an important turning point at the end of this year, one that was postponed when China joined the World Trade Organization almost 15 years ago.
The United States and the European Union must decide whether they will begin to treat China as a “market economy” in their trade policies.
Unfortunately, even as the battle escalates over the course of this year, the terms of the choice ensure that nothing will be done to address the global trade regime’s deeper flaws.
China’s WTO accession agreement, signed in December 2001, permitted the country’s trade partners to deal with China as a “non-market economy” (NME) for a period of up to 15 years.
But, regardless of whether they do, antidumping measures are ill-suited to the task of addressing concerns about unfair trade – not because such concerns are ungrounded, but because they go well beyond dumping.
Clearly, antidumping is the trade remedy of choice.
But the global trade regime has to address issues of fairness, in addition to economic efficiency.
Certain types of competitive advantage undermine the legitimacy of international trade, even when (as with this example) they may imply aggregate economic benefits for the importing country.
What trade officials have never taken on board is that the fairness argument extends beyond the dumping arena.
Such concerns about unfair trade lie at the heart of the anti-globalization backlash.
Yet legal trade remedies permit little room for them beyond the narrow commercial realm of below-cost pricing.
Refusal to acknowledge such concerns not only undermines these trade relationships; it also jeopardizes the legitimacy of the entire global trade regime.
None of this implies that democracies should not trade with non-democracies.
We cannot escape – and therefore must confront – the dilemma that gains from trade sometimes come at the expense of strains on domestic social arrangements.
Trade disputes with China and other countries are an opportunity for airing – rather than repressing – these issues, and thus taking an important step toward democratizing the world’s trade regime.
The TPP would improve Japan’s trade prospects considerably, including in sensitive sectors like agriculture, where exports of fast-moving consumer goods like flowers and vegetables would benefit.
The US trade deficit has declined from $60 billion a month to just $26 billion, according to the most recent data.
The only reason the US trade deficit is falling is that the country remains in a severe recession, causing US imports and exports to collapse in parallel.
In fact, there has been no change in relative prices or depreciation of the US dollar of a magnitude that would augur a permanent shift in trade and spending patterns.
Indeed, China is now expected to undershoot its 10% growth target for trade in 2012, even though exports to emerging-market economies were up by more than that in the first nine months of the year.
The answer lies in France and Germany, where, a decade after the 2008 financial crash exposed the eurozone’s design flaws, there is still no consensus about how to manage the large-scale insolvencies that are inevitable in a currency union lacking any mechanism to temper financial flows and trade imbalances.
They should also be worried about the opportunities created for money launderers, and for trade in illicit drugs.
The Real Reason for Trump’s Steel and Aluminum TariffsCAMBRIDGE – Like almost all economists and most policy analysts, I prefer low trade tariffs or no tariffs at all.
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