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The same could perhaps be said of trade, or even of globalization itself.
Of course, trade requires more than the absence of conflict.
In short, effective trade demands clear rules, typically enforced by a hegemon.
This position confers considerable advantages on the US, but it also requires the US to run persistent trade deficits, in order to supply the rest of the world with sufficient dollar liquidity.
Finally, if the US is unwilling to play its role as the world’s leading champion of free trade, Europe must take over.
Eliminating its remaining external tariffs, even if largely symbolic, could reinforce the simple truth that trade is not a zero-sum game, but a mutually beneficial endeavor.
America’s overall trade deficit will not disappear without an increase in domestic savings and a more fundamental change in global monetary arrangements.
Here, unfair trade agreements – including the persistence of unjustifiable agricultural subsidies, which depress the prices upon which the income of many of the poorest depend – have played a role.
The developed countries have not lived up to their promise in Doha in November 2001 to create a pro-development trade regime, or to their pledge at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005 to provide significantly more assistance to the poorest countries.
Its trade balance is positive, and total public debt is not as high as it is in other countries.
The fiscal deficit is higher than 6% of GDP, the trade balance is negative, and public debt – albeit lower than in all other European countries except Germany and the Netherlands – is nonetheless 80% of GDP.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has proposed slapping a 45% tax on Chinese imports into the US, a plan that appeals to many Americans who believe that China is getting rich from unfair trade practices.
Sanders even hammers his opponent Hillary Clinton for her support of earlier trade deals such as the 1992 North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The right remedy to reduce inequality within the US is not to walk away from free trade, but to introduce a better tax system, one that is simpler and more progressive.
But the idea that trade fuels inequality is a very parochial perspective, and protectionists who shroud themselves in a moralistic inequality narrative are deeply hypocritical.
As far as trade is concerned, the current US presidential campaign is an embarrassment of substance, not just of personality.
The high and rising price of oil does, however, contribute to the decline of the dollar, because the increasing cost of oil imports widens the United States’ trade deficit.
In 2007, the US spent $331 billion on oil imports, which was 47% of the US trade deficit of $708 billion dollars.
If the price of oil had remained at $65 a barrel, the cost of the same volume of imports would have been only $179 billion, and the trade deficit would have been one-fifth lower.
The dollar is declining because only a more competitive dollar can shrink the US trade deficit to a sustainable level.
Thus, as rising global demand pushes oil prices higher in the years ahead, it will become more difficult to shrink America’s trade deficit, inducing more rapid dollar depreciation.
Abe’s agenda includes reform of social security in response to demographic trends, as well as gaining the agriculture sector’s acceptance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the bold regional trade agreement that will unite the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and much of the rest of Asia, with the exception of China.
And, of course, they should sustain pro-growth policies that boost overall job creation and reduce unemployment, while rejecting barriers to trade or innovation.
The blowback from the refusal to acknowledge the rights of citizens could be dramatic, undermining national security, bilateral trade, the transatlantic strategic partnership, and the nature of the Internet itself.
He achieved an enviable rate of economic development for a country starved of natural resources, helped to eradicate poverty, and deepened Tunisia’s ties with Europe through tourism, trade, and cultural relations.
This would certainly be the case in Bangladesh, where some Rohingya refugees – who have fled horrific persecution in neighboring Myanmar – rely on the drug trade for economic survival.
While it is unclear if Sirisena will follow through, his threat is part of a worrying trend among populists who view the death penalty as a panacea for the drug trade.
Around the world, countries are recognizing that executions, much less extrajudicial killings, have no effect on the drug trade.
Emerging markets and other developing countries will need oxygen in the form of credit lines and trade financing.
Without open trade, growth and development could break down entirely.
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