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The “endogenous” factors contributing to wide-scale regulatory capture and corporate rentierism can be addressed with stronger antitrust legislation, policies to empower organized labor, revisions to existing
trade
agreements, and better monitoring, at the international level, of transfer pricing and tax evasion.
Collapsing emerging-market currencies, and the resulting
trade
pressures, will make it all the more difficult for them to prevent their unemployment levels from rising significantly.
Because, from Mexico's perspective, NAFTA has not yet achieved one of its key goals: to deliver the benefits of free
trade
to all of the country's regions and sectors.
For NAFTA to realize its full potential and move the convergence process, opening borders to
trade
and reducing tariff barriers are not enough.
Having created a functioning, regional, open
trade
area, the three countries must ensure that the new imperative to secure borders does not obstruct legitimate flows of goods, services and people.
Crucially for Europe, world
trade
has been virtually stagnant in recent months.
Global
trade
and economic performance in the eurozone appear to be dragging each other down.
These forces are probably profiting from the drug
trade.
Improved security at ports in Ghana and Senegal is putting a dent in illicit
trade
passing through those countries.
An Opportunity for the WTOONTARIO – This December,
trade
ministers from around the world will converge in Buenos Aires for the World
Trade
Organization’s 11th Ministerial Conference.
With the United States, which has historically led the world toward
trade
liberalization, now actively stoking
trade
tensions, the meeting is set to be unlike any other.
The current tensions over free trade, rooted in the uneven distribution of its benefits, cannot be resolved within the WTO, let alone by a ministerial gathering.
On the contrary, it should serve as a critical opportunity to initiate the update and recalibration that the WTO needs to remain an effective platform for international
trade
cooperation and consensus-building.
About two thirds of the WTO’s 164 members have declared themselves developing countries – a label that entitles them to S&D provisions, including the authority to maintain
trade
tariffs for a longer period of time.
And with so many of their WTO partners claiming preferential status, developed-country members often resist
trade
concessions within the organization, preferring to conduct negotiations in other forums.
Developed countries have been raising their retirement ages gradually, but
trade
unions and pensioner groups lobby hard against any increase.
After all, with painful deleveraging – spending less and saving more to reduce debts – depressing domestic private and public demand, the only hope of restoring growth is an improvement in the
trade
balance, which requires a much weaker euro.
Standard economic theory tells us that net inward migration, like free trade, benefits the native population only after a lag.
This is far different from the old liberal idea that
trade
and contact with totalitrian regimes begets democracy, sooner or later - an idea on display during President Clinton’s visit to China earlier this summer.
True,
trade
makes any country in the age of globalization, whatever its political ideology, more dependent on all the players in the world wide marketplace.
So Westernization is promoted not by contacts, by trade, or by ideology.
Some observers also saw the Forum as part of Xi’s effort to fill the vacuum left by Donald Trump’s abandonment of Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership
trade
agreement.
And if China chooses to use its surplus financial reserves to create infrastructure that helps poor countries and enhances international trade, it will be providing what can be seen as a global public good.
Shipping goods overland from China to Europe is still twice as expensive as
trade
by sea.
American policy is not containment of China – witness the massive flows of
trade
and students between the countries.
Could there be a better place to do business, build stadiums and skyscrapers, or sell information technology and media networks than a country without independent
trade
unions or any form of organized protest that could lower profits?
Recently, the Copenhagen Consensus project gathered eight of the world’s top economists – including five Nobel laureates – to examine research on the best ways to tackle 10 global challenges: air pollution, conflict, disease, global warming, hunger and malnutrition, lack of education, gender inequity, lack of water and sanitation, terrorism, and
trade
barriers.
Together, they will commit more than $7 billion over five years in financing,
trade
credits, insurance, small business grants, and direct government support to the energy sector in six partner countries.
This threatens to aggravate the damaging contraction of global
trade.
Thus, even as mounting job losses undermine consumption, housing prices, banks’ balance sheets, support for free trade, and public finances, the room for further policy stimulus is becoming narrower.
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