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Countries spend years negotiating
trade
rules, but exchange-rate movements can, within days, have a greater impact on
trade
than those painstaking deals.
Furthermore, exchange-rate movements are essentially determined by financial flows and may have no effects in terms of correcting global
trade
imbalances.
The effectiveness of monetary expansion could be enhanced in advanced countries by reducing the leakages generated by the carry
trade
and other short-term capital outflows.
This is because high oil prices raised inflation in the United States, worsened the US
trade
deficit, and increased the likelihood of a US recession by acting as a tax on consumer spending.
Just consider how the current bout has raised global inflation, lowered incomes of the global poor, weakened the dollar, deepened the US
trade
deficit, aggravated global financial instability, and increased the likelihood of a global recession.
Over the past few months, every self-respecting West European foreign and defense minister has called for some new Atlantic initiative to complement the long-standing security ties, primarily in the
trade
and economic field.
And not only did they all agree on the desirability of better US-European coordinations, they also presented a long list of what could, and should, be done: lifting remaining
trade
impediments, perhaps even creating a "Transatlantic Free-Trade Area"; agreeing on rules to facilitate mutual investment; reducing the danger of major monetary crises through closer consulation; addressing jointly major ecological issues.
That day may be approaching, but, in the meantime, there are worrisome signs that China’s
trade
and investments in North Korea, the latest of which is a Chinese supermarket in which local currency can be traded at free-market (that is, black-market) rates, could oddly make China dependent on the North.
Chinese traders and investors have in recent years moved in as Japan and South Korea, two of North Korea’s longstanding
trade
partners, have withdrawn, owing to official sanctions and increasing public irritation with the North’s intransigent behavior.
China’s
trade
with North Korea has increased from around $1 billion in 2005 to more than $5.1 billion in 2011.
China’s government has justified this burgeoning
trade
by claiming that North Korea will come to appreciate the wonders of a market economy.
China should follow up on its Security Council vote to condemn North Korea’s behavior by shutting down bilateral
trade.
Contrary to popular belief, the true global
trade
dilemma of our time is not so much liberalization versus protectionism, but the rights of capital versus the rights of people.
In recent years,
trade
pacts have exacerbated imbalances on that front, by failing to deliver benefits for the many, rather than for a relatively few powerful corporations.
In this context, a focus on improving each NAFTA economy’s
trade
balance would be misguided.
Instead, negotiators must aim to spread the benefits of
trade
more widely, by taking better advantage of the opportunities for cooperation stemming from geographical proximity, complementary labor markets, demographic dynamics, and economic integration.
The key to success will be effective penalties for non-compliance, focused on the withdrawal of
trade
benefits.
To that end, today’s
trade
deals must take a cooperative approach that emphasizes capacity-building and encourages vigorous citizen participation, with civil society in each country assured the legal standing to present cases within the framework of a renegotiated agreement.
At the same time, Brazil - which has followed sound economic policies and has healthy budget and
trade
surpluses - cannot refinance its debt at acceptable rates.
As one who worked in the gas industry before entering politics, I know that the gas
trade
in the countries of the former Soviet Union is riddled with corruption.
Indeed, Ukraine’s interests form a comfortingly familiar triangle of economic, political, and strategic priorities: free
trade
and open markets across the globe; prosperous and democratic neighbors; and not being on the front-line of a conflict, still less a potential battleground, between Russia and the West.
The World Bank and the World
Trade
Organization still insist that further agricultural
trade
liberalization is the best medium-term solution.
Take the same country’s current-account deficit and ask how large a real depreciation is needed (making some assumptions about
trade
elasticities along the way) to close that external gap.
Last year, the company sealed an agreement with the
trade
union IG Metall that includes a no-layoff pledge for its 128,000-strong German workforce.
On one side are those who caution that departure from the EU would cause
trade
to collapse, discourage investment, push the UK into recession, and trigger the demise of the City of London as a global financial center.
At a recent conference in Moscow, however, IMF Deputy Managing Director Stanley Fisher continued to stress the importance of the 'Washington consensus' - ie, macroeconomic stabilisation based on liberalizing prices and trade, currency convertibility, tight budgetary and monetary policy and rapid privatisation B for the success of reform.
The typical approach when seeking to finalize an agreement aimed at reducing
trade
barriers – while attempting to protect labor and environmental standards – is to ask for less, not more, from those on the other side of the table.
A significantly undervalued currency implies a potentially large
trade
surplus.
Even people who are very much in favor of freer
trade
– and even of some version of the TPP, like Bergsten and Gagnon – believe that some Asian countries have overstepped the boundaries of reasonable behavior.
But both parties are generally interested in supporting free trade, along responsible lines – and recognize legitimate concerns.
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