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Asia, a bright spot in terms of growth in the post-crisis years, is now experiencing rising tensions that jeopardize regional
trade
and growth.
The result is a
trade
deficit now standing at over $400 billion per year.
That
trade
deficit is financed by foreign investments in America, as savers the world over increase their holdings of US stocks and bonds.
Contrary to glib assumptions, globalization of capital, trade, and migration flows is not “good for everyone.”
In the US, the main future challenge probably will be the impact of trade, rather than migration, because the era of large-scale influxes from Latin America may soon come to an end, as declining fertility rates stabilize populations throughout the region.
But his argument that many US workers have suffered – and could suffer still more – from free
trade
has struck a chord, because it is partly true.
Unless the US political system can produce effective policy responses to this reality, the populist rejection of free trade, combined with antagonism toward immigrants, seems likely to grow stronger.
Instead, the US stresses to foreign governments that an effective global trading system requires not only the removal of formal
trade
barriers, but also the absence of policies aimed at causing currency values that promote large
trade
surpluses.
These large foreign-exchange reserves are no longer held to buffer temporary
trade
imbalances.
It rests on market-oriented regimes of
trade
liberalization, increased capital mobility, and appropriate social-welfare policies; backed by American security guarantees in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, through NATO and various other alliances.
Trump, however, may pursue populist, anti-globalization, and protectionist policies that hinder
trade
and restrict the movement of labor and capital.
Protectionism – starting with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which affected thousands of imported goods – triggered retaliatory
trade
and currency wars that worsened the Great Depression.
As in the 1930s, when protectionist and isolationist US policies hampered global economic growth and trade, and created the conditions for rising revisionist powers to start a world war, similar policy impulses could set the stage for new powers to challenge and undermine the American-led international order.
One can master all the political tricks of the
trade
to survive parliamentary debates or interrogations by committees.
It opened its markets and laid the foundations for globalization and the information revolution, kept sea-lanes open for international trade, and catalyzed the Green Revolution… The list goes on.
Brazil's severe summer market jitters, during which the country's risk index suddenly topped Nigeria's and short term credits for international
trade
dried up, began to change the face of the election.
For example, rather than sustain
trade
sanctions against China after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the US decided instead to integrate the country into global institutions.
And it was after the Communists crushed the pro-democracy movement in 1989 that the US helped to turn China into an export juggernaut that has accumulated massive
trade
surpluses and become the principal source of capital flows to the US.
Seen in this light, China’s spectacular economic success – including the world’s largest
trade
surplus and foreign-currency reserves – owes much to US policy from the 1970’s on.
Without the significant expansion in US-Chinese
trade
and financial relations, China’s growth would have been much slower and more difficult to sustain.
America depends on China’s
trade
surplus and savings to finance its outsize budget deficits, while China relies on its huge exports to the US to sustain its economic growth and finance its military modernization.
Italy’s leaders should engage actively in commercial diplomacy, using the country’s embassies and
trade
agencies to promote Italy globally, while working to build strong bilateral relations with other EU members, particularly southern countries like Spain.
A Bilateral Foil for America’s Multilateral DilemmaNEW HAVEN – The good news is that the United States and China appear to have backed away from the precipice of a
trade
war.
Hoover ignored the advice, and the global
trade
war that followed made a garden-variety depression “great.”
After all, it accounted for 46% of America’s colossal $800 billion merchandise
trade
gap in 2017.
Tracing outsize current-account and
trade
deficits to an extraordinary shortfall of US domestic saving – just 1.3% of national income in the fourth quarter of 2017 – counts for little in the arena of popular opinion.
Likewise, it doesn’t help when we emphasize that China is merely a large piece of a much bigger multilateral problem: the US had bilateral merchandise
trade
deficits with 102 countries in 2017.
Nor does it matter when we point out that correcting for supply-chain distortions – caused by inputs from other countries that enter into Chinese assembly platforms – would reduce the bilateral US-China
trade
imbalance by 35-40%.
And, with the merchandise
trade
gap hitting 4.2% of GDP in 2017, these pressures have only intensified in the current economic recovery.
US negotiators are fixated on targeted reductions of around $200 billion in the bilateral
trade
imbalance over a two-year time frame.
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