Trade
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To be sure, China already plays a significant role in international
trade
and finance, with major financial centers like London and Frankfurt eagerly lining up for renminbi business.
Belfort was (is) obviously a super-slick snake-oil merchant, brilliant in his
trade
until drugs ruined his judgment.
The minimum-wage now exceeds what
trade
unions had sought.
Foreign
trade
was a fertile area of corruption, too.
Moon is well positioned to capitalize on Trump’s self-inflicted wounds – which have included threats of unilateral military action, protectionist mantras, and the abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
trade
agreement.
Indeed, Trump’s statements about the US-South Korean relationship have ranged from the impolitic to the bizarre – such as accusing the South of unfair
trade
deals and then threatening to send South Korean leaders a bill for the THAAD system.
China, South Korea’s leading
trade
partner, is a case in point.
Calling the system a threat, the Chinese have been boycotting South Korean goods, stalling investment, and curbing what had been a booming tourist
trade.
Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum left the US and Canada deeply divided at the Quebec summit, and their split over
trade
is certain to have much broader political implications.
Trump’s global
trade
war is equally self-defeating.
As for liberalization, China is committed to implementing policies to open up further its markets to
trade
and foreign investment, while protecting the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors.
More broadly, given Europe’s slide into recession and only a slow rise in world
trade
volume, renewed growth and stronger import demand in Japan would support global recovery.
Doing so requires Japanese policymakers to focus on more sustainable growth while averting a vicious cycle of competitive devaluation and protectionism with Japan’s
trade
partners.
This delicate situation could escalate into further currency intervention,
trade
protectionism, and capital controls.
Beggar-thy-neighbor policies could lower total
trade
volume – a zero-sum game from which no one would benefit.
East Asian economies could then, over time, cooperate to enhance regional exchange-rate stability, thereby creating a more conducive environment for intra-regional
trade.
The same can be said of Uruguay’s interest in a Free
Trade
Treaty with the US, as it is seeking alternatives outside of the region’s Mercosur group, and Bush remains keen on bilateral
trade
deals.
To be sure, China has made itself a major player in every region of the world, by deploying a combination of trade, aid, and investment – in particular, by pursuing major infrastructure investment projects in strategic locations throughout the developing world, as part of its “one belt, one road” strategy.
As a result, even with the same
trade
balance, China ends up with more foreign-exchange reserves, though using the RMB as a settlement currency is supposed to reduce their accumulation.
The key objective of China’s capital controls is to prevent non-residents from holding domestic RMB-denominated assets that are unrelated to
trade
and long-term capital flows.
Back in the 1990’s, EU officials, prompted by Spain, Italy, and France, began to shape a Mediterranean strategy to stimulate
trade
and investment in the Arab world.
In the past, there was talk in Brussels of helping Arab countries to develop closer mutual
trade
links.
Yet they remain islands of underdevelopment – less than 2% of the five Maghreb countries’
trade
is with one another, and much the same is true of the eastern Mediterranean countries of the Mashreq and of the Gulf states.
As a case in point, many Western observers thought that Norway’s
trade
relations with China would be undermined when dissident Liu Xiaobo was invited to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December 2010.
So the last thing that officials at any level want to do is jeopardize international
trade.
During much of the 1980s and 1990s, the Bank oversaw structural adjustment programs in developing countries that focused on deregulation, privatization, and economic liberalization, especially
trade
opening, all of which helped to enable globalization.
While there were undoubtedly problems with many aspects of such a one-size-fit-all package of policies – the Washington Consensus, as it was known – the
trade
liberalization component helped accelerate lower-middle-income and middle-income countries’ economic convergence with developed countries.
But, today, the United States is rejecting
trade
openness, imposing unilateral tariffs and other barriers, and renegotiating
trade
deals on worse terms.
While the Bank’s annual report, released in September, talks of a commitment to “researching today’s most pressing topics,”
trade
is not among them.
For example, this April – after the US had launched its
trade
war with tariffs on steel and aluminum – the Development Committee of the World Bank Board of Governors endorsed a package that included a $7.5 billion paid-in capital increase for the IBRD.
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