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Certainly I do not expect a tariff war to break out in the near term, but there are dangerous indicators of trade trouble ahead.
Perhaps Doha was unlikely to achieve much in the current circumstances, but the absence of any continuing dialogue on world trade – at worst, a useful safety valve – adds a new level of risk.
The impact is particularly vivid in trade finance, where European banks have been major participants in Asia.
Apec’s original intent was to promote economic cooperation and trade liberalization in the region.
And the authorities’ strong commitment to reform restored investor confidence, reviving inflows of private capital and reactivating foreign trade.
And that can happen only if Europe confronts, and ultimately overturns, America’s extraterritorial sanctions, which aim to deter trade and financial activities with Iran by non-US actors.
It is one thing for the US to decide that it will not trade with Iran.
It is quite another for the US government to attempt to block trade with Iran by non-US parties.
They should recognize that acquiescence would be tantamount to handing the US a blank check to set the rules of war and peace beyond the UN Security Council, and the rules of global trade beyond the World Trade Organization.
Europe needs its own security policy, just as it needs its own trade and environmental policies.
World peace depends on Europe’s defense of the UN Charter and the rules of international trade.
The eight previous rounds of global trade talks were conducted under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), following its creation in 1947.
President Barack Obama is presumably sympathetic to openness in trade.
He cannot have spent a decade teaching at the University of Chicago without being persuaded that trade is beneficial.
Even during his campaign for the Democratic Party nomination, when his main rival, Hillary Clinton, was pushing to suspend trade negotiations and had embraced the protectionist narrative, Obama kept his cool and promised instead to reopen NAFTA – a tactic designed to amount to nothing, as it has.
But the Democrats in Congress who won in 2008 were financed by labor unions, which are fearful of trade, chiefly with developing countries.
They have constrained Obama’s willingness to embrace trade deals.
Few of these officials are willing to battle for trade, having reconciled their supposed concern for the poor with a deplorable willingness to deny developing countries access to the US and other rich markets that can help them earn their way out of poverty.
Indeed, they now claim, astonishingly, that trade actually harms the poor in poor countries!
Last November’s elections changed for the better the politics of trade, as the Republican Party is now in the majority in the US House of Representatives.
Showing no appreciation of the time-honored linkage between trade deficits and macroeconomic saving-investment imbalances, the president continues to fixate on bilateral solutions to a multilateral problem – in effect, blaming China for America’s merchandise trade deficits with 102 countries.
Moreover, the feedback loop through the saving channel only exacerbates the very trade problems that Trump claims to be solving.
With the Congressional Budget Office projecting that federal budget deficits will average 4.2% of GDP from now until 2023, domestic saving will come under further pressure, fueling increased demand for surplus saving from abroad and even bigger trade deficits in order to fill the void.
Contrary to his bluster over unfair trade deficits, China’s real challenge to the United States is less about economics and more about the race for technological and military supremacy.
China’s massive pan-Asian infrastructure plan, the Belt and Road Initiative, together with its muscular behavior in the South China Sea, pose far greater threats to American hegemony than does one bilateral piece of a much larger multilateral trade deficit.
Trump claims that trade wars are easy to win.
The trade war may well be an early skirmish in a much tougher battle, during which economics will ultimately trump Trump.
More than half of the country’s trade is with the Union, and Moldova receives significant EU financial assistance.
For example, Spain’s exports have grown without producing tangible positive effects on the country’s trade balance.
Moreover, it should not be taken for granted that higher prices and wages in Germany will reduce the country’s trade surplus.
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