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Ringo also heads the Apollo Alliance , a coalition of trade unions, environmentalist groups, managers, and local politicians that demands clean energy and good jobs.
Since the election of President Donald Trump, the United States, which remains one of Africa’s top donors, has focused more on the principles China favors – like political stability, trade, and counterterrorism – than on human rights.
In fact, a key element of America’s Asian pivot, the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, does not just exclude China; it also leaves out close US allies like India and South Korea.
After all, six members already boast bilateral free-trade agreements with the US, meaning that the TPP’s main effect will be to create a free trade area (FTA) between Japan and the US, which together account for about 80% of the TPP countries’ combined GDP.
Compare this to the “one belt, one road” initiative, which aims to boost China’s financial leverage over other countries through trade and investment, while revising the maritime status quo, by establishing a Chinese presence in areas like the Indian Ocean.
From September 10-14, trade ministers from around the world will meet for the next stage of what is supposed to be the Development Round of trade talks.
At their last meeting in Doha in November 2001, ministers recognized the inequities of the previous round of trade negotiations, the Uruguay round.
Most people in the developing world live in the rural sector, which is why free and fair trade in agriculture matters.
TRIPS, the intellectual property regime adopted in the last round of trade negotiations, deprived millions in the developing world of access to life-saving drugs.
With services comprising an increasing share of production in developed countries, attention has shifted to liberalization of trade in services.
But discussions about competition and fair trade again demonstrate the intellectual poverty and inequity of trade negotiations.
Anti-dumping laws are intended to ensure fair trade by preventing the sale of goods below cost.
With globalization, it would be natural to extend such principles to the international arena, making it irrelevant whether a producer is domestic or foreign when judging whether he is engaged in an unfair trade practice.
Indeed, if the standards of domestic trade laws were applied internationally, perhaps a majority of firms within the US would be guilty of dumping.
The trade negotiators are not even discussing eliminating this double standard.
There is a real danger that what was intended to remedy the imbalances of previous trade rounds will not only fail to do so, but may introduce new imbalances.
Failure at Cancun would confirm the fears of those who resisted a new round of trade negotiations.
Regions must be prevented from promulgating regulations that violate national laws or impose negative effects on other regions, as has happened with the creation by some regions of internal trade barriers.
Within the EU, this is less of an issue, given that small states – in theory – still benefit from free trade within the Union; but, outside of the EU, the situation of the remaining state can be dire.
On the old commission headed by Romano Prodi, France was powerfully represented, with Pascal Lamy holding the trade portfolio.
But Prime Minister Persson, kowtowing to the trade unions, insists on blocking labor immigration altogether for the next decade.
The party itself is awash in trade union money, which is exempt from taxation as a result of sheer cronyism.
And trade losses imposed on the eurozone by the drachma depreciation would be modest, given that Greece accounts for only 2% of eurozone GDP.
Cuban Time TravelHAVANA – For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel embargo that the US maintains against Cuba.
During the Reagan Administration, trade legislation that threatened unilateral sanctions if others did not negotiate helped create the conditions that prodded other countries to move forward with the creation of the World Trade Organization and its dispute settlements mechanism.
The same is true of a long list of items: the spread of infectious diseases, the stability of global financial markets, the international trade system, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics trafficking, international crime syndicates and transnational terrorism.
The End of China’s SurplusCAMBRIDGE – China’s current-account surplus – the combination of its trade surplus and its net income from foreign investments – is the largest in the world.
With a trade surplus of $190 billion and the income from its nearly $3 trillion portfolio of foreign assets, China’s external surplus stands at $316 billion, or 6.1% of annual GDP.
The policies that China will adopt as part of its new five-year plan will shrink its trade and current-account surpluses.
This would cause a shift from exports to production for the domestic market, thereby shrinking the trade surplus, in addition to curbing inflation.
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