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The first is China, which Trump has singled out as the greatest
trade
exploiter of the US.
With the WTO essentially out of the picture, the US will launch a new initiative to strike bilateral deals on
trade
rules – an approach that Trump advocated in his APEC speech.
Asian and European countries, in particular, should be preparing for the worst by negotiating their own
trade
agreements with one another to preempt American mercantilism.
After all, taking the initiative to boost
trade
and other commercial contacts is the best way to resist a
trade
war.
But if a Trump
trade
war is in the offing, they – and other countries – will need to double down on that approach.
In the southern city of Guangzhou, the center of China’s shark-fin trade, vendors have reported an 82% decline in sales over the last two years.
Such action must not only aim to protect shark populations directly; it must also address major threats to sharks, such as illegal trade, bycatch, and overfishing.
China found it useful to run a large
trade
surplus, using a very high rate of internal savings and inward foreign investment to support its industrialization and rapid growth.
But financial intermediation would never have brought disaster (or indeed gone so far) save for the global imbalances arising from America’s twin
trade
and budget deficits, financed to a large extent by Chinese savings.
The column was reprinted on a blog maintained by CUTS International (Consumer Unity and Trust Society), the most important developing-country NGO today, leading to an outpouring of reactions from
trade
experts.
If the Doha Round fails,
trade
liberalization would shift from the WTO to preferential
trade
agreements (PTAs), which are already spreading like an epidemic.
But, if PTAs were the only game in town, the implicit constraint on
trade
barriers against third countries provided by the WTO’s Article 24, which is weak but real, would disappear altogether.
The WTO stands on two legs: non-discriminatory
trade
liberalization and uniform rule-making and enforcement.
With the former eliminated, the most important institution of global free
trade
would be crippled.
It is also reflected in the increasing number of non-trade-related provisions being inserted into the PTA treaties proposed by the US and EU, a result of self-serving lobbies that seek concessions by weaker trading partners, without which free
trade
supposedly would amount to “unfair trade.”
Surely, Shevardnadze’s political skills were worthy of another great Soviet politician from the Caucasus, the Armenian Anastas Mikoyan, once Stalin’s trusted
trade
minister and later Nikita Khrushchev’s fellow anti-Stalinist and deputy prime minister.
For half a century, the process of European integration proceeded – sometimes with setbacks, sometimes with giant steps forward – joining formerly separate markets by creating very close
trade
relations.
Japan’s TPP TransformationTOKYO – On October 5, after years of exhausting – and exhaustive – haggling, a dozen Pacific Rim countries finally signed up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an agreement that promises everything from more
trade
to a cleaner environment.
The TPP’s origins, pre-dating Amari’s involvement, go back to a 2006
trade
agreement among only Singapore, New Zealand, Chile, and Brunei – the so-called “Pacific 4.”The United States, Australia, Peru, and Vietnam, seeing the prospect of a rules-based international order in Asia, joined the talks in March 2010, and in an instant the P-4’s small boat became a great ocean liner.
It is also seeking greater
trade
cooperation with European countries.
One example is President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to the United Kingdom – which in essence is also an attempt to weaken Britain’s “special relationship” with the US by creating a cat’s cradle of trade, financial, and investment ties with Britain.
Of course, the so-called Washington Consensus – the quintessential neoliberal guide to development – emphasizes free-market competition, including
trade
liberalization.
Accordingly, and despite a significant market rally that has taken many individual stocks to record highs, Apple and Facebook currently
trade
at almost half their record levels.
If Trump goes down the protectionist road, however, US
trade
partners will retaliate, often with measures targeted directly at his base, as when the European Union recently threatened tariffs against Kentucky bourbon.
Local climate change can, of course, exacerbate the situation, but given the scope for world
trade
and the existence of surpluses in many food producing areas, democratic governments can deal with the consequences.
Old models of economic growth, however, such as export orientation and selective use of import restrictions that worked well for East Asia in the last century, are less feasible under today's global
trade
rules.
For the first time since the 1930s, the US has a president who views
trade
as a zero-sum game.
Trump’s protectionist campaign rhetoric may not have been meant literally, but if he fails to deliver any of the
trade
curbs that he promised, Republicans will suffer a backlash from what is now their core voter constituency, voters in declining industries and regions.
US global leadership is therefore bound to shift away from free trade, globalization, and open markets.
Nobody can predict the full effects of the biggest regime change in global economic management since the 1980s; but they will surely be negative for emerging economies and multinational companies, whose development models and business strategies have assumed free
trade
and open capital flows.
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