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Exposure to international trade and finance, which is what EU membership entails, may have benefited the UK as a whole, but it has not worked to every individual’s advantage.
So the disadvantaged are lashing out – against trade, against immigration, and against the failure of conventional politicians to address their woes.
Now that all of the main oil producers are unequivocally committed to maximizing production, regardless of the impact prices, oil will continue to trade just like any other commodity (for example, iron ore) that is in oversupply in a competitive market.
The populist backlash against globalization in the West will not be stilled by Macron’s victory, and could still lead to protectionism, trade wars, and sharp restrictions to migration.
The Current Account CountsNEW HAVEN – In an increasingly interconnected global economy, cross-border trade and financial-capital linkages have come to matter more than ever.
The same is true of trade tensions, such as those now evident around the world.
Lacking in saving and wanting to invest, consume, and grow, they have no choice but to borrow surplus saving from others, which gives rise to current-account and trade deficits with the rest of the world.
They are afflicted by subpar consumption, excess saving, and chronic trade surpluses.
This blame game, which has long been central to disputes over international economic policy and trade tensions, is particularly contentious today.
Since then, frictions between deficit and surplus countries have intensified, now risking the possibility of a full-blown trade war.
President Donald Trump’s administration has played an especially antagonistic role in asserting that the US is being victimized by large trade deficits.
Yet America’s trade gaps have, in fact, been spawned by a chronic deficiency of domestic US saving.
And he insists, over the protests of countless economists, that trade deficits are a sign of US economic weakness.
After languishing for centuries, trade is once more shaping the relationship between these two world regions.
The EU is India’s second-largest trading partner, with turnover reaching €68 billion ($93.5 billion) in 2010, accounting for 20% of India’s global trade.
Once this irritant is overcome, negotiations over the free-trade agreement, which have long been in their “final” stages, can be concluded, and should transform trade.
Second, developing-country participation in GVCs – and indeed in world trade in general – has remained quite limited, with the notable exception of certain Asian countries.
Third, and perhaps most worrisome, the domestic employment consequences of recent trade and technological trends have been disappointing.
This bias reduces developing countries’ comparative advantage in traditionally labor-intensive manufacturing (and other) activities, and decreases their gains from trade.
The evidence to date, on the employment and trade fronts, is that the disadvantages may have more than offset the advantages.
In addition to the trade and budget deficits, there is a jobs deficit.
Nor does the usual argument for free trade apply.
Rather, costs are low because for almost two centuries colonial powers and then domestic governments hobbled markets and restricted international trade, leaving a legacy of wages so low that they offset weaker productivity.
China's trade surplus with the US exceeds $100 billion, but it runs a deficit with India.
But if this capacity is impaired, neither the low road of protection nor the high road of free trade can do much good.
Over the last few decades, China has begun to practice modern contract law and joined the World Trade Organization, committing itself to international rules governing trade and investment.
Another example is piracy, which can threaten vital trade and energy routes.
Moreover, the country has weaponized transborder river flows and used trade as an instrument of geo-economic coercion against countries that refuse to toe its line.
Almost immediately upon entering the White House, Trump withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an ambitious 12-country trade and investment agreement brokered by Obama.
Trump’s assault on the rules-based order extends also – and ominously – to trade.
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