Maybe Trump Admin's Intent is to Leave the WTO
It may be an American farewell to the WTO building on the shores of Lake Geneva real soon. As I've written in a previous post , it is unlikely that the United States will win a case against its p…
Showing posts with the label Trade
Tariff Terrorist Trump, Meet Tariff-Cutting Congress
Yay! Cheaper GAP vest soon care of...American politicians? I will soon have (rather lots) more to say about the upcoming Trump tariffs on steel and aluminum. Since the US Trade Representative has not…
Canada's Trudeau: To Save NAFTA, Avoid Trump
Trudeau's ploy to save NAFTA consists of going around Trump. If there ever was a misleadingly titled article, consider this one from Bloomberg on Canadian PM Justin Trudeau seeing a "clear …
Will Trump Ramp Up Trade War Post-Stock Crash?
Being a disordered personality of the first order, Trump has acted as a cheereleader for both rising stock valuations and trade protectionism despite the latter being anathema to the former in the op…
Watch Out: 2018's World Economy Resembles 2007’s
When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing - Former Citibank CEO Charle…
How Will China Retaliate Against US Trade Penalties?
Here are the washing machine tariffs just imposed by Trump. Together with the rest of the world, I've long been waiting for the real Donald Trump--as his Twitter handle describes--to show up in t…
Captain Caveman Meets Jetsons? Trump@Davos
Unga bunga...build the wall...it's all the same. A few days ago--before the US government shutdown became inevitable at least--Donald Trump was announced as an attendee at the annual Davos shindi…
Geography Flunkies: UK in Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Can the UK join these Pacific nations in a regional FTA? It's far-fetched. I am utterly befuddled by British officials giving lip service to the idea that they wish to join the Trans-Pacific Par…
Post-NAFTA Mexico Alludes to Plans B, C & D
Going back to plain vanilla trade, there is much afoot in Mexico as politicians there appear to be contemplating the end of NAFTA as we know it thanks to el loco del norte Donald Trump. There is now…
PRC‘s Trump Appeasement: Import Expo 2018
He likes military pomp, but does Trump also like "import expos"? I almost forgot about this post: In the run-up to Trump's recent swing through Asia, Chinese apparatchiks devised somet…
TPP - USA = CPTPP
If you can't spot the sucker at the trade negotiating table, then it's probably Trump. Whoa, that's some weird math we've got to deal with in today's international political econo…
Globalization According to Xi & Trump
China's already done the failed Great Wall schtick, but others are certainly welcome to try. The purpose of rhetoric has been studied extensively in the social sciences. By saying certain things,…
Can Trump Increase Japanese Car Plants Stateside?
Actually, Japanese-branded cars "Made in America" are already plentiful. The point is making even more . Here's a welcome dose of reality--even if just a little--from a person mostly de…
Can Trump Make Koreans Buy US Crapmobiles?
Hmm...why don't Asians like these pimped-out American rides? The obvious answer is no, but that's never stopped any US president from trying. From Obama to Trump and beyond, the Asians shoul…
How to *Really* Fix Massive US Trade Deficits
And the award for best trade villain goes to... Trumpian idiocy is endangering perfectly good trade deals with Mexico and Canada [ NAFTA ] as well as with South Korea [ KORUS FTA]. The anti-heroes h…
Mexico, Screw Trump: Only Congress Undoes NAFTA
Mexico should put Trump and his protectionista Lighthizer in their place by getting the US congress to stop this idiocy. I make no bones that I am far more sympathetic to Mexico than Trump's USA…