Trade
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Smart
trade
requires two key provisions: core labor rights, backed up by tough enforcement, and a development fund targeting infrastructure and education to boost competitiveness.
America and its "coalition" of the willing went to war in Iraq without the support of the UN, and the World
Trade
Organization meeting at Cancun--which was supposed to provide the impetus for a successful conclusion of the Development Round of
trade
negotiations--ended in failure.
The US and Europe reneged on their promise that this would be a round of
trade
negotiations designed to improve the plight of developing countries.
Indeed, they failed to redress the imbalances of earlier rounds of
trade
talks that had made the poorest regions of the world worse off.
The US and Europe not only tried to impose their
trade
agenda on developing countries; they also continued to insist on their right to subsidize agriculture and raised new demands that would have made lives in developing countries even worse.
Tariffs on industrial goods in the advanced countries are already low enough that developing countries are unlikely to receive many benefits--and they have much to lose from another unfair
trade
agreement.
In Miami last November, they agreed to a Free
Trade
Area of the Americas that did not, in fact, provide for free trade, and barely went beyond what had already been agreed within the WTO.
In short, it is beginning to look as though any success in the current round of
trade
talks will be based on agreements without substance.
The counterpart of America's immense fiscal deficit is its yawning
trade
gap.
As the euro remains strong relative to the dollar in 2004, America's
trade
deficit will moderate, but at the cost of making a robust European recovery all the more difficult.
As a result, markets were deregulated, making it easier to
trade
assets that were perceived to be safe, but were in fact not.
Instead, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act closed off American markets and provoked other countries into a spiral of retaliatory
trade
measures.
Apart from a six-month period after the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, in which
trade
finance stopped and the world did look as if it was close to Great Depression circumstances, China and other emerging markets helped those export-oriented industrial economies to recover.
Perhaps in the six months between the amputation and the new limb, someone could arrange for them to learn a new trade, such as plumbing.
The SED meeting next week in Beijing will focus on five areas: integrity of
trade
and product safety; balanced economic development, including financial sector reform; energy efficiency and security; environmental sustainability; and bilateral investment.
China’s management of food and product safety issues will have a long-term impact on
trade
relations, the sustainability of China’s growth strategy, and its further integration into the global trading system.
In the past year, the RMB has appreciated by 6%, but the pace is not fast enough to reduce China’s global
trade
surplus, its internal imbalances, or foreign-exchange-market pressures.
As globalization advances and economies become more tightly integrated, worries about the effects of foreign competition – through
trade
or through foreign investment – have fueled economic nationalism and protectionist sentiments.
Some Chinese are suspicious that the US push for RMB appreciation and financial-market liberalization is really an attempt to gain
trade
advantages and generate profits for American companies while slowing China’s economic expansion.
There are also those in China who argue that the US focus on food and product safety is part of a strategy to restrict Chinese imports and reduce the bilateral
trade
deficit.
In the second year of his presidency, Trump’s administration will likely set its sights on trade, suggesting that the prospect of more
trade
wars will increase substantially.
In his first year in office, Trump has often huffed and puffed about other countries’ unfair
trade
practices, just as he did during the 2016 election campaign; but he has done little to turn words into deeds.
Trump is relying on China – one of America’s largest
trade
partners – to apply pressure on the North Korean regime, while US businesses have lobbied vigorously against any measures that might inhibit
trade.
The “logic” of that ideology holds that
trade
deficits are proof of unfair practices by other countries, and should thus be met with tough and decisive action.
After Twitter, Trump’s
trade
rhetoric is his most powerful weapon.
Until now, Trump has been willing to hold back on the
trade
issue until the Republican Party’s planned tax overhaul makes its way through Congress.
Once tax legislation is off the table – and especially if it fails ignominiously in the same manner as the Republicans’ health-care-reform effort earlier this year – Trump will want to show that he means what he has said on
trade.
While some in Trump’s cabinet might reject efforts to apply the slogan to the issues they oversee, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, US
Trade
Representative Robert Lighthizer, and National
Trade
Council Director Peter Navarro all share Trump’s views on
trade.
Each agrees that America’s big bilateral
trade
deficits with countries such as China, Japan, Germany, and Mexico are proof that America is being taken for a ride by its competitors.
Trump and his
trade
advisers believe that by reducing or even eliminating those deficits, they can create well-paid jobs for American workers.
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