Trade
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Until recently, the region maintained a
trade
surplus with the US, but with liberalization, the region will increase imports of more affordable goods, thereby turning the surplus into a deficit.
Consider Mexico's
trade
balance with the US since the North American Free
Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect.
In the years between 1995 and 2002, Mexico's annual
trade
deficit with the US increased to $1 billion.
Moreover,
trade
in agricultural products will benefit US exporters more than Central American farmers.
The agreement only stresses that labor rights are to be respected, highlighting that a party to the agreement "shall not fail to effectively enforce its labor laws, through a sustained or recurring course of action or inaction, in a manner affecting
trade
between the Parties."
Even in a good year,
trade
with the US is unlikely to grow that much.
With the EU accounting for half of British
trade
turnover, the impact on exporters could be devastating (despite a more competitive exchange rate).
GSMA – a
trade
group that represents hundreds of telecoms operators, and whose director general, Mats Granryd, is a member of the Business Commission – and its members are facilitating microfinance in rural areas.
Unfortunately, with a large export sector that employs scores of millions of workers, this dependence has become structural, which implies that to reduce China’s
trade
dependency and
trade
surplus is much more than a matter of adjusting macroeconomic policy.
MAD About Sino-American TradeCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Now that US President Donald Trump has imposed a 10% tariff on yet another $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, the US-China
trade
war has entered a costly new phase.
As China follows through on its pledge to retaliate, the casualties will include more than half the bilateral
trade
between the two countries, with China itself suffering the most losses.
But
trade
is not nuclear war, and in this conflict, the US possesses a much bigger arsenal than China.
This would please America’s
trade
warriors and national security hawks, who believe that such a decoupling would limit the growth of Chinese power.
Instead, they should take Trump’s recent escalation as an opening to end the
trade
war, initiating a ceasefire that will enable the real peace negotiations to begin.
The Shape of Sino-American ConflictCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – For most observers of the unfolding
trade
war between the United States and China, the casus belli is the convergence of China’s unfair
trade
practices with US President Donald Trump’s protectionist credo.
It is that strategic objective that underlies America’s recent economic maneuvers, including Trump’s extravagant demand that China cut its
trade
surplus with the US by $200 billion in two years.
The fact that the current
trade
spat is about more than economics will make it much harder to manage.
While China might be able – with substantial concessions and a healthy dose of luck – to avoid a devastating
trade
war in the short term, the long-term trajectory of US-China relations is almost certain to be characterized by escalating strategic conflict, and potentially even a full-blown cold war.
In this scenario, bilateral tensions will continue to mount, because individual disputes are settled in isolation from one another, based on a specific quid pro quo, and thus lack any strategic coherence.So, however their current
trade
spat plays out, the US and China seem to be drifting toward long-term conflict.
So, however their current
trade
spat plays out, the US and China seem to be drifting toward long-term conflict.
For example, we have quadrupled our
trade
volume just with our neighbors.
This is already taking place in the
trade
realm.
And because they also assume that the liberal international economic order will endure, they expect that, once “liberated” from the shackles of the EU, the UK will find eager partners with which to sign
trade
deals.
Beyond causing severe economic damage to both sides, such an outcome would generate so much acrimony that the two sides would find it next to impossible to work out arrangements in myriad other areas, such as territorial defense and counter-terrorism,
trade
and sanctions, international diplomacy, and climate change.
Trump’s protectionism-tinged
trade
policies are likely to take a serious toll on global economic growth.
Such tensions could spill over and impede trade, tourism, and investment, especially if incidents occur between rival air or naval forces operating in close proximity over or around disputed waters and territories.
From there, regional pacts that promote free
trade
and contend with climate change should be negotiated.
This will require that successive US administrations emphasize free trade, increase America’s air and naval presence, and invest in diplomacy designed to promote China’s integration within the region on terms consistent with the interests of the US, its allies (Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia), and its many friends.
America's Other 87 DeficitsNEW HAVEN – The United States has a classic multilateral
trade
imbalance.
While it runs a large
trade
deficit with China, it also runs deficits with 87 other countries.
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