Trade
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In this tradition,
trade
liberalization is a microeconomic “shock” that affects the composition of employment, but not its overall level.
Economists tend to analyze
trade
agreements in such terms, rendering the Petri-Plummer model more congenial to them.
The trouble is that the real world has not lined up so neatly with
trade
economists’ assumptions.
Critics of
trade
agreements have marshaled countless anecdotes about the adverse effects of imports on wages and employment in affected communities.
Advocates of
trade
agreements have long maintained that deindustrialization and the loss of low-skill jobs in advanced economies have little to do with international trade; they are the product of new technologies.
In light of the new empirical findings, such nonchalance toward
trade
has become untenable.
Economists do not fully understand why expanded
trade
has produced the negative consequences for wages and employment that it has.
We do not yet have a good alternative framework to the kind that
trade
advocates use.
But those who believe that this
trade
agreement, like previous ones, will provide lopsided benefits have ample reason to be concerned.
These initiatives reflect not only China’s voracious drive for natural resources and new
trade
routes, but also Myanmar’s own plans to create a “mini-Singapore” within its borders.
Asia can use its geography either to keep its states isolated, or to
trade
with one another and develop to the benefit of all.
As all this extra stimulus fuels an economy already nearing full employment, inflation seems bound to accelerate, with protectionist
trade
tariffs and a possible “border tax” raising prices even more for imported goods.
The policy also helped to expand China’s foreign
trade
and boost its external financial strength (with a robust balance-of-payments position, large international reserves, and a stable currency), thereby creating space for Li to carry out his ambitious reform agenda.
Huge tax cuts and rising military spending have fueled an enormous rise in imports, and therefore a yawning
trade
deficit now accompanies America’s weak fiscal position.
But US politicians are blaming China and other countries for “unfair trade,” even threatening them with sanctions.
The leading German
trade
union, IG Metall, has called for a 6.5% wage increase in the next annual round of negotiations.
Resource nationalism is on the rise, as is a backlash against free
trade
and inward FDI.
They claim that it would improve the US
trade
balance, while boosting domestic production, investment, and employment.
Even if the BAT is rejected, the risk of a damaging global
trade
war triggered by the Trump administration will continue to loom large.
Pick any indicator:
trade
relative to global GDP, capital flows relative to the global capital stock, and so forth – all are rising.
But economic policies are set at the national level, and, with a few notable exceptions like
trade
negotiations and the tracking of terrorist funding and money laundering, policymakers set goals with a view to benefiting the domestic economy.
Emerging economies were immediately affected by credit tightening (including
trade
finance) and rapid declines in exports, leading to similar shocks there.
The list of potential policy actions that could benefit the United States –
trade
liberalization, comprehensive regulatory reform, and immigration and education reform, among others – is long.
Not surprisingly, Chinese leadership was keen to avoid any reference to the last two centuries of struggle and humiliation, or to its problematic political agendas and thorny
trade
issues.
A fifth indicator is South Korean
trade
data, which is consistently reported on the first day of each month after trades occur – faster than any other country.
South Korea has an open economy and trading partners around the world, including the US, China, Japan, and the European Union, so one can extrapolate from its
trade
data to draw conclusions about the state of global
trade.
After trending down in recent years, South Korean
trade
since November has shown signs of recovering, notably in terms of export growth; and in January, it bounced back significantly.
To be sure, this finding is at odds with all of the eulogies for globalization that one hears these days, and Donald Trump’s decidedly protectionist administration in the US could now send global
trade
into a long retreat.
In fact, barring the worst-case scenario under Trump, it is possible that the slowdown in global
trade
in recent years will turn out to be a temporary phenomenon.
It may have been a singular occurrence that reflected a variety of factors, including the euro crisis; continued economic weakness in many European countries; the sharp decline in commodity prices; dramatic slowdowns in Brazil, Russia, and other emerging economies; and tighter regulations for international banks, which might have hindered
trade
finance.
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