Trade
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Yet America was great before Trump, and his behavior – riding roughshod over international agreements, trashing allies, and pursuing protectionist
trade
measures – will only undermine that greatness by, among other things, depleting the country’s formidable stock of soft power.
Some steps, including the removal of the US
trade
embargo, are prohibited by the Helms-Burton Act, adopted by the US Congress in 1996.
In 1954, it became the tenth country to accept the full obligations of the Fund’s Article VIII, eschewing the use of foreign-exchange restrictions on international
trade.
After the US
trade
embargo was imposed in 1960, Cuba became heavily dependent on the Soviet Union for economic support.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the end of reliable
trade
and financial backing threw the Cuban economy into a severe recession, which abated only after the government relaxed some restrictions on private enterprise.
The accession countries have upheld their end of the bargain, achieving a degree of
trade
integration with EU countries that is even higher than many current members.
The US is struggling to prevent the Trump administration’s extremism – whether it’s a travel ban aimed at Muslims, science-denying environmental policies, or threats to ignore international
trade
commitments – from being normalized.
In our deeply interconnected globalized economy, one country’s policies – such as
trade
barriers, interest rates, or monetary expansion – can have far-reaching spillover effects.
As the European Union, despite all its difficulties, embodies the Continent's future, Russia must be integrated with it so that Europe's future will be about trade, capital and technological flows, not defense and security.
Today, having faded as a result of advances that opened up the Americas and the East to European trade, the Mediterranean has a great opportunity to recover its lost prestige.
And four years from now will probably be too late to revive it, because by then East Asian countries may have been drawn into a China-led
trade
grouping instead.
Studies such as this are rare, because the doctors who profit from the practices being investigated do not welcome independent reviews that might demolish their
trade.
But the high rate of asset inflation in Hong Kong is due partly to an undervalued currency, set at HKD7.8:$1 since 1983 (though allowed to
trade
within a narrow band between 7.75 and 7.85 since 2005).
The renminbi-dollar exchange rate is, of course, only part of the story of what drives China’s
trade
competitiveness.
The CFTA – one of 12 flagship programs under the African Union’s (AU) Agenda 2063 framework – could double intra-African
trade
and bring enormous benefits to the continent.
One positive sign is that the CFTA will include
trade
in services, which already contribute more than 50% of African countries’ GDPs, on average.
And a comprehensive framework to establish the terms and conditions of
trade
and investment in specific sectors, and to attract investment, should follow.
As for
trade
in goods, the main goal of the CFTA is to open up markets through a broad reduction in tariffs.
On the whole, African
trade
already comprises relatively few product lines, which means that if the most-traded products are excluded, intra-African
trade
will suffer, and the entire CFTA will be rendered redundant.
Although
trade
under the CFTA regime will not begin until there are established rules of origin, participants have at least agreed to follow the World Customs Organization’s recognized criteria for determining “value addition,” “material content,” “substantial transformation,” and whether goods are “wholly obtained.”
A critical objective in setting the CFTA’s product-specific rules of origin should be to promote the production and
trade
of inputs and other intermediate products within Africa.
They are unable to add value to raw materials in order to sell processed goods in local and international markets and negotiate better prices and favorable
trade
rules.
Another reason is that ordinary citizens suffer when debts are not cancelled, when financial assistance is not forthcoming, or when
trade
barriers are raised.
The breakthrough, he noted, comes when institutions go beyond
trade
within local communities to permit anonymous and impersonal exchange across time and space.
The need to cope with
trade
pressures after the Trans-Pacific Partnership encompasses most of China’s neighbors will have a similar disciplining effect.
Developing countries can benefit from the opening of markets to new
trade
and investment, while the developed world can benefit from the infusion of new customers, suppliers, and capital (possibly in the trillions of dollars).
Such action will probably have to wait until the political consequences of low growth, high inequality, mistrust of international
trade
and investment, and the loss of central-bank independence become too great to bear.
(Money to be made from the illegal traffic in people, by some estimates, already outstrips the profits of the illegal drug trade.)
Making Migration WorkMILAN – There are four pillars of globalization and economic interdependence: trade, investment, migration, and the flow of information, whether data or knowledge.
But only two –
trade
and investment – are founded on relatively effective structures, buttressed by domestic consensus and international agreements.
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