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That points to rising balance-of-payments and multilateral
trade
deficits, which are impossible to resolve through targeted bilateral actions against a single country.
China’s vague promise to purchase more American-made agricultural and energy products borrows a page from the “shopping list” approach of its earlier
trade
missions to the US.
Since 2000, the largest annual reduction in the US-China merchandise
trade
imbalance amounted to $41 billion, and that occurred in 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession.
At the same time, international calls for China to assume the responsibilities of a major power – not only in areas like
trade
and investment, but also on issues like environmental protection and global governance – are growing louder.
Second, it identifies eight key areas of reform: governance, competition policy, land, finance, public finance, state assets, innovation, and liberalization of international
trade
and finance.
The Double Standard of America’s China
Trade
PolicyCAMBRIDGE – A high-profile United States
trade
delegation appears to have returned empty-handed from its mission in China.
This is not the first
trade
spat with China, and it will not be the last.
Instead, the continued divergence of economic systems has been a fertile source of
trade
friction.
And the US had as much regard for British industrialists’
trade
secrets as China has today for American intellectual property rights.
Any sensible international
trade
regime must start from the recognition that it is neither feasible nor desirable to restrict the policy space countries have to design their own economic and social models.
International
trade
rules, which are the result of painstaking negotiations among diverse interests – including, most notably, corporations and their lobbies, cannot be expected to discriminate reliably between these two sets of circumstances.
Yet the fact is that Trump’s
trade
agenda is driven by a narrow mercantilism that privileges the interests of US corporations over other stakeholders.
It shows little interest in policies that would improve global
trade
for all.
Such policies should start from the
trade
regime’s Golden Rule: do not impose on other countries constraints that you would not accept if faced with their circumstances.
Many German workers believe, as one
trade
unionist recently lamented, that takeovers are being driven by a philosophy of “buy it, strip it, and flip it.”
The US is running an $800 billion annual
trade
deficit in traditional goods and services.
At the moment, the most glaring weakness is the so-called “yen carry trade.”
But if the yen appreciates sharply, as it easily could given Japan’s huge current account surplus, some hedge funds will suffer huge capital losses and the yen carry
trade
will implode.
But in most economic areas – taxes,
trade
policy, financial stability, fiscal and monetary management – what makes sense from a global perspective also makes sense from a domestic perspective.
Hiding behind cosmopolitanism in such instances – when pushing for
trade
agreements, for example – is a poor substitute for winning policy battles on their merits.
Between these two positions, most economists have been content to ply their
trade
on the assumption that, however self-interested bureaucrats might be, they are subject to oversight from democratic politicians whose own self-interest is to get re-elected by keeping voters satisfied.
Third, the Trump administration’s
trade
disputes with China, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and others will almost certainly escalate, leading to slower growth and higher inflation.
Sixth, Europe, too, will experience slower growth, owing to monetary-policy tightening and
trade
frictions.
Since Trump has already started a
trade
war with China and wouldn’t dare attack nuclear-armed North Korea, his last best target would be Iran.
The analysis presented by Gita Gopinath, which establishes a connection between the price pass-through to prices from exchange-rate changes and the currency in which
trade
is invoiced, speaks plainly to this issue.
Given that most emerging-market countries’
trade
is conducted in dollars, currency depreciation should push up import prices almost one for one.
Simply put, North Koreans are not as isolated as they once were, and have a growing appreciation of their impoverishment, owing primarily to greater
trade
and closer connections with booming China.
He will hear for himself the strength of American arguments about
trade
and the renminbi’s exchange rate.
Moreover, no single state can weigh in on international negotiations and offer solutions to economic rivalries or
trade
issues that threaten to degenerate into political clashes.
Europe’s academics, senior civil servants, business executives, and
trade
unionists must work together to build a project that expresses a new frontier for Europe.
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