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While Trump has blinked on China by putting on hold his promised sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports to the US, he has attempted to coerce and shame US allies like Japan, India, and South Korea, even though their combined trade surplus with the US – $95.6 billion in 2017 – amounts to about a quarter of China’s.
Trump has forced South Korea to accept a new trade deal, and has sought to squeeze India’s important information technology industry – which generates output worth $150 billion per year – by imposing a restrictive visa policy.
As for Japan, last month Trump forced a reluctant Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to accept a new trade framework that the US views as a precursor to negotiations on a bilateral free-trade agreement.
Japan would prefer the US to rejoin the now-Japan-led TPP, which would ensure greater overall trade liberalization and a more level playing field than a bilateral deal, which the US would try to tilt in its own favor.
Trump’s trade tactics, aimed at stemming America’s relative economic decline, reflect the same muscular mercantilism that China has used to become rich and powerful.
As for Trump, while he has pressed China to change its trade policies, he has given Xi a pass on the South China Sea, taking only symbolic steps – such as freedom of navigation operations – against Chinese expansionism.
Populist parties of the left and right – with their shared hostility to free trade, migration, Muslims, and globalization – are becoming more popular throughout Europe.
Lacking well-developed industrial production and intra-community trade, devaluation brought& them higher& import prices, inflation, and& rising unemployment.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, trade grew twice as fast as GDP, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty.
Some want that partnership to include trade in advanced weaponry—witness the recent push to remove the EU’s 15-year-old ban on arms sales to China.
Supporters of lifting the arms export ban argue that this litany of sins does not reflect China’s real improvements in human rights and penalizes European armaments jobs to the benefit of Russia, which enjoys a lively arms trade with its neighbor (something it might one day regret).
In addition, those in favor of reviving EU-China arms trade see such sales as a stabilizer in bouts of political turbulence and are loath to let bad politics interfere with good business.
That means, above all, avoiding trade that makes it more difficult to pursue those aims.
So transatlantic coordination is needed, to ensure that any trade of sophisticated arms and weapons-related technologies with China does nothing to enhance China’s military power, and that competition between Western producers of goods that may legitimately be sold to China does not damage Western political unity.
In the Cold War era, there was a mechanism for such trade.
While the US should lift its trade embargo as soon as Cuba’s transition begins, everything else should be conditional on Cuba initiating a process of resolving all outstanding issues.
The international community must recognize that migration not only stimulates economies, but also provides an opportunity to build business and trade linkages between economies.
A Requiem for Global ImbalancesBERKELEY – The start of 2014 marks ten years since we began fretting about global imbalances, and specifically about the chronic trade and current-account imbalances of the United States and China.
Nor are earlier trade balances about to reemerge.
America’s trade position will be strengthened by the shale-gas revolution, which promises energy self-sufficiency, and by increases in productivity that auger further re-shoring of manufacturing production.
Since May, the EU commission on trade policy has been preparing strict new rules to manage Russia's exports to the Union.
Among the tactics the EU is using to retard Russian trade are numerous antidumping investigations aimed at Russian companies.
The EU's trade regulators argue that they have the right--and the obligation--to initiate antidumping investigations if they suspect that a state, say, regulates prices for energy carriers in a way that subsidizes domestic firms.
If they find Russia "guilty" of subsidizing its industry through low-cost energy, they can deem Russian goods as "dumped" and impose trade restrictions.
They are applicable to all market economies that trade with it.
The EU's emerging anti-Russian trade policy is not an antidumping policy; it is outright protectionism.
Europe's national political leaders, who so often proclaim their joy at growing closeness to Russia, must halt the efforts of those in the EU Commission who seek to sabotage EU/Russia trade relations.
Europeans who want to develop relations with Russia and the majority of businessmen--European and Russian--with interests in greater trade must also be induced to lobby in favor of greater openness.
Trade protectionism won’t help, because trade is not a zero-sum game, and most US manufacturing jobs have been lost to automation, not trade.
Worse, given the implications of trade for geopolitical and financial-system dynamics, the net consequences of protectionism will likely be negative.
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