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America’s president is captive to the country’s labor unions, who buy the false narrative that
trade
with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.
Again, Washington lobbyists have bought into the absurd claim of
trade
experts such as Fred Bergsten that the gain from Doha, as it stands now, is a paltry $7 billion or so annually.
This ignores the far greater losses that a failed Doha Round would entail, for example, by undermining the World
Trade
Organization’s credibility as the principal guarantor of rules-based trade, and by leaving
trade
liberalization entirely to discriminatory liberalization under preferential bilateral agreements.
Most of all, Obama is badly served on
trade
by his senior colleagues.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for example, was opposed to
trade
liberalization when she ran against Obama for president, and advocated a “pause” in free-trade negotiations.
Likewise, now that Warren Buffett is considered to be Obama’s most trusted economic adviser, it is worth recalling that back in 2003 he produced the astonishing prescription that the best way to reduce the US
trade
deficit was to allow no more imports than it could finance from its export earnings.
If Obama can weather domestic resistance to new international
trade
negotiations and modify America’s current position on sectoral tariff reduction by developing countries, the US and India will have an opportunity to break the impasse that has stymied the Doha Round’s successful conclusion.
Hence, the Russian reformers focused on land reform - which is very difficult - rather than the total liberalization of agricultural
trade
- which is much easier.
However the alleged production monopolies were used by state enterprise managers as an argument against liberalization of prices and trade, and they often won.
A typical example of the danger of lingering Marxist values is the production fetishism and contempt for
trade
as “speculation”.
In the bad old days, only 7 percent of the Soviet labor force worked in trade, compared with 15-20 percent in the West, because
trade
was considered “unproductive”.
To reduce such problems, many need to work well in
trade.
The massive development of spontaneous
trade
after the liberalization of the prices and
trade
made an important contribution to welfare, but many saw it as big waste.
The answer, of course, will depend on monetary, fiscal, trade, and related policies in the United States and around the world.
Sixth, we should hope that the EU and the UK can agree on a reasonable Brexit deal that will preserve fairly strong
trade
relations.
The main risk here is that localized declines in
trade
could spill over and cause broader harm.
And, beyond Europe, let us hope that negotiations between the US, Canada, and Mexico over the North American Free
Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) will result in an arrangement that still facilitates continental
trade.
For
trade
generally, the biggest risk is that the Trump administration could start a lose-lose
trade
dispute, owing to its understandable eagerness to help American manufacturing workers.
There are even said to be plans for an Arctic highway to facilitate
trade
throughout the polar region.
Poland, by contrast, had strong civic groups – including the Church, peasant societies, and the Solidarity
trade
union.
RMB appreciation should have started earlier and at a faster pace, when China’s
trade
surplus was much smaller and its growth was much less dependent on exports.
In the first seven months of 2010, China’s
trade
surplus was $84 billion, down 21.2% from January-July 2009.
This large, steady fall in the country’s
trade
surplus makes the Chinese government hesitant to allow the RMB to appreciate significantly, for fear of the lagged impact on the
trade
balance.
True, commerce ministry officials recently declared their wish to see a further fall of China’s
trade
surplus in 2010.
At the same time, the effect of currency appreciation on the
trade
balance should not be exaggerated.
Exchange rates are just one of many factors that affect
trade
balances.
The fall in China’s
trade
surplus since late 2008 is attributable mainly to the global slowdown and the stimulus package introduced by the Chinese government, rather than to changes in the RMB’s exchange rate.
But if the RMB is allowed to float, isn’t a balanced
trade
account likely?
America should not pin too much hope on a weakening dollar to correct its
trade
imbalances.
A strengthening dollar would worsen the US
trade
balance, but a weakening dollar could cause panic in capital markets, which might push up risk premia on dollar-denominated assets, including US government securities, in turn leading to an economic slowdown and a further weakening of the dollar.
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