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On the trade front, China’s large bilateral surplus with the US could mean that it has more to lose from a trade war, simply because it has more exports that can be penalized.
For one thing, China is more economically resilient to the effects of a trade war than it used to be.
Of course, Trump, too, might ignore protests against his trade war if he is convinced that taking on China will please his core voters and win him re-election in 2020.
In terms of international diplomacy, Trump’s trade war will help China present itself as the defender of the rules-based international order and multilateral institutions such as the World Trade Organization.
And if a US-initiated trade war drags on, China’s case will become only stronger as more countries suffer the disruptive effects of tariffs.
Of course, China may choose not to fight Trump’s trade war at all.
Triangulating BrexitBRUSSELS – More than 100 days after the United Kingdom voted narrowly to leave the European Union, it remains far from clear what arrangement will regulate cross-Channel trade after Brexit.
But basic economic principles imply that free movement is, indeed, at least as important as free trade.
From the point of view of European welfare, it is the size of the trade barriers that matters, not which side is a net exporter or importer.
Low barriers typically have low costs, unless very large volumes of trade are affected.
The good news for the UK is that it probably wouldn’t face substantially higher trade barriers even if it did leave the single market.
After all, the EU has, in general, a liberal trade regime, with low external tariffs.
That is why so many studies do not consider the economic benefits of tariff-free transatlantic trade as the primary reason for pursuing it.
Yet another reason why the introduction of some low trade barriers is unlikely to produce large losses is that the differences in the cost of producing goods in one market or the other are small.
This means that the barriers that EU negotiators are in a position to impose – which largely affect trade in goods – are likely to have a much smaller impact than the UK-imposed barriers, such as quotas on EU workers.
While overall trade in services is unlikely to suffer enormously from Brexit – the internal market for services never worked all that well, anyway – finance constitutes a special case, largely because of the passporting arrangements for banks.
Despite being seen as a poster child for the benefits of globalization, India is not unduly dependent on global flows of trade and capital.
India relies on external trade for less than 20% of its GDP; its large and robust internal market accounts for the rest.
Rather, the government gives the military a free hand in running the drug trade, making many generals and officials extremely rich – and able to buy the loyalty of key troops.
Indeed, the nightmare scenario haunting the world is the collapse of another shadow banking entity, causing global trade to freeze, as happened in 2008.
The Basel III agreement on capital adequacy and other recent reforms still have not ring-fenced trade financing from these potential shocks.
So they were more aware of distant opportunities, had more international contacts, and were disproportionately active in international trade.
Moreover, premature and excessive hawkishness would strengthen the US dollar and sharply increase the US trade deficit, undermining Trump’s stated goal of creating jobs and boosting incomes for his blue-collar, working-class electoral base.
University seminars in Rio are as lively as those in Cambridge, Mass or Cambridge U.K.It produces one of the finest airplanes in the world--so good that competitors in the more advanced industrial countries have tried to impose trade barriers.
And the US is waging an escalating trade war, which could be followed by a debilitating currency war.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economies should orchestrate a transition from public to private investment by strengthening regulatory and insolvency frameworks, increasing intra-African trade, and deepening access to credit.
The idea, simply put, was that countries would benefit from embracing market-based pricing and deregulation at home, while fostering free trade and relatively open cross-border capital flows.
In the final scenario, what emerges is a more decentralized Europe, with less top-down agreement in areas beyond trade and a smaller, more homogeneous eurozone composed of the EU’s core economies.
The new administration will have to be smart about pursuing other goals, such as trade and military cooperation, with these countries.
For example, will major trade concessions from China really do more to advance US interests than nullifying the North Korean threat?
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