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The US is largely responsible for the failure of the Doha Round of global
trade
talks.
Pursuing this option implies that the EU should push for progress in
trade
talks with Japan, negotiate an investment agreement with China, modernize the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, and position itself as a world leader on tax reform.
Already, Trump has raised doubts about his commitment to the “one China” policy – including by accepting a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan’s president after the election – and threatened to impose high tariffs on China, which he has accused (wrongly) of devaluing its currency to gain an unfair
trade
advantage.
But much more could be done – especially on
trade
policy – to deepen US-Latin American economic relations.
Since the breakdown of the Doha Round of global
trade
talks, the US has been involved in two major international
trade
negotiations.
They aim to restore momentum toward an open global
trade
regime, including progress on contentious issues like
trade
in services, intellectual property rights, government procurement, and the harmonization of safety, health, and technical standards.
The TAP could be established and promoted relatively cheaply, by building on and harmonizing current bilateral
trade
agreements with the US, as many of the Pacific Alliance members have been doing.
It could become a formidable force supporting free trade, investment, prosperity, and indeed peace in a multi-polar world.
Such large
trade
agreements have become particularly important as a means to bridge the two competing economic and ideological models that increasingly divide the world: China and Russia’s authoritarian state capitalism and Western-style democracy and rule of law.
The fourth shock was eastern EU enlargement, which has brought extraordinary chances for
trade
and investment in the east, but has also brought massive low-wage competition.
For 40 years, since the Six-Day War of 1967, there has been one realistic possibility for peace: Israel’s return to its pre-1967 borders, combined with viable economic conditions for a Palestinian state, including access to
trade
routes, water supplies, and other essential needs.
Will Hutton, a prominent British commentator, has described the Financial Services Authority, which I chaired from 1997-2003 (the date things began to go wrong!) as a
trade
association for the financial sector.
While the Unasur proposal may have been formulated in a more rigorous way than other initiatives, its failure to contemplate
trade
integration means that there is nothing to tie member states together beyond political will.
Discussions about international free trade, however, have generally been held outside the region, in Doha or in the G-20, with Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico representing Latin America.
The immediate problem is a credit crunch not so much in China as in the United States and Europe, where many small and medium-size importers cannot get the
trade
credits they need to buy inventory from abroad.
One of the great challenges ahead is to find a way to bring these two countries’ savings into line, given the vast
trade
imbalances that many believe planted the seeds of financial crisis.
Let the Doha Round FailImagine that the world’s
trade
ministers simply walk away from their forthcoming Hong Kong meeting of the World
Trade
Organization (WTO) with this simple declaration: “We failed to reach an agreement; we’ll try to do better next time.”
The World Bank’s most recent estimate is that complete
trade
liberalization (including in manufactures and by developing nations themselves) would produce a net gain to the developing world of half a percentage point of their income.
Most developing nations have opened themselves significantly to foreign
trade
and no longer employ the most damaging policies of the past (such as quantitative restrictions on imports).
In the advanced countries,
trade
barriers for manufactured goods and many services are at a historic low.
Any country with a sensible development strategy has the opportunity to make its economy grow, with assistance from
trade.
The silver lining in an amicable break-up of the
trade
talks is that it would give negotiators a chance to focus on issues that are of much greater significance to developing nations.
The next time around,
trade
talks should take up the two most glaring omissions to date:There remains a possibility that
trade
negotiators will patch together a last-minute deal in Hong Kong and emerge claiming victory.
Now China may become the target of a full-fledged
trade
war that could destroy – or perhaps rescue – the chances of bringing rich and poor nations together to fight global warming.
In response, the US Congress is moving to create a system of
trade
sanctions that would levy heavy taxes on imports from other major greenhouse gas emitters.
Ironically, the American plan is taking shape even before the US takes any action to reduce its own emissions, inviting charges of hypocrisy, violation of international law, and threatening a major
trade
war.
Warning of an “all-out
trade
war” if the sanctions go forward, US
Trade
Representative Susan Schwab argues that green
trade
sanctions would violate World
Trade
Organization rules.
The growing dispute over
trade
sanctions brings to the fore not only the fundamental ethical question of whether wealthy nations should bear the burden of emissions reduction alone, but also the strategic question of whether sticks as well as carrots should be used to induce green behavior in developing countries.
Despite the threat of
trade
wars,
trade
sanctions could emerge as the most effective means of forcing international action on global warming.
The deal on the core nuclear issues is central to this approach, but so is a credible process for developing the
trade
and investment links that will facilitate Iran’s move from isolation to integration.
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