{"id":13937,"date":"2016-10-24T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=13937"},"modified":"2016-10-24T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:26:59","slug":"policy-prescriptions-trump-and-clinton-on-global-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/policy-prescriptions-trump-and-clinton-on-global-trade.html","title":{"rendered":"Policy Prescriptions Trump and Clinton on global trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Policy Prescriptions Trump and Clinton on global trade<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Policy Prescriptions Trump and Clinton on global trade:-<\/strong> Donald Trump wants to blow up the way the United States does business with the rest of the world.\u00a0<\/span>Hillary Clinton repudiates an ambitious Asia-Pacific trade deal she once praised and vows to appoint a special prosecutor to keep U.S. trading partners in line.<\/span><\/p>\n

American trade policy is taking a bipartisan beating this election year, reflecting voters\u2019 deep skepticism over the benefits of open trade with China and other countries at a time of sluggish economic growth and stagnant incomes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hostility is jeopardizing a mainstay of U.S. policy: Since World War II, the United States has championed free trade as a way to promote global peace and prosperity. It has coaxed countries like China to join the World Trade Organization and other institutions and to sign trade agreements that bind them to a code of conduct in the global marketplace.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMake no mistake, the proposed trade policies of both former Secretary (of State) Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald J Trump are huge deviations from … decades of consensus,\u201d Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said at a conference on the candidates\u2019 trade policies in September.<\/span><\/p>\n

Expanded trade has taken a toll on U.S. manufacturing jobs, especially in industries such as textiles and furniture-making that are vulnerable to low-wage competition overseas. The U.S. last year ran a $500 billion trade deficit with the rest of the world, most of it with China.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a report earlier this year, economists David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gordon Hanson of the University of California, San Diego, and David Dorn of the University of Zurich found that the damage from trade with China was worse than they expected. Americans who were thrown out of work by the \u201cChina shock\u201d bounced from job to job and suffered a drop in lifetime pay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked about threats to U.S. workers, 80 percent of more than 5,000 Americans surveyed in October by the Pew Research Center cited the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries and 77 percent pointed to competition from foreign imports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, many economists say it was technology \u2014 not foreign competition \u2014 that took away most of the 7 million manufacturing jobs lost since 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump and Clinton say trade policy can be overhauled to do a better job of creating or protecting American jobs \u2014 though Trump is willing to be far more aggressive in overturning U.S. economic relations with the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a summary of their proposals:<\/span><\/p>\n

RETHINKING TRADE DEALS<\/span><\/p>\n

TRUMP: The Republican candidate blames job losses on unfair trade agreements. The man who wrote \u201cThe Art of the Deal\u201d says incompetent U.S. negotiators are routinely out-maneuvered by sharper foreigners. He threatens to tear up existing trade treaties, including the North American Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, calling it \u201cthe worst single trade deal ever approved in this country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Most economists say NAFTA had little impact on the overall job market or the economy, confounding the optimistic predictions of its supporters and the dire warnings of opponents.<\/span><\/p>\n

CLINTON: Like Trump, Clinton has come out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an ambitious trade pact the Obama administration negotiated with 11 Pacific Rim countries. TPP awaits congressional approval. Critics say the deal exposes U.S. workers to competition with low-wage workers in countries such as Vietnam. Clinton\u2019s opposition is a flip-flop: As President Barack Obama\u2019s secretary of state, Clinton called the TPP \u201cthe gold standard\u201d for trade deals.<\/span><\/p>\n

CRACKING DOWN ON CHINA AND OTHER COMPETITORS<\/span><\/p>\n

CLINTON: The Democratic candidate has promised to appoint a chief trade prosecutor and triple the number of trade enforcement officers to crack down on unfair practices by the United States\u2019 trading partners.<\/span><\/p>\n

TRUMP: He has vowed to name China a \u201ccurrency manipulator\u201d and punish it with trade sanctions. He says Beijing keeps China\u2019s currency, the yuan, artificially low to give Chinese companies a price edge in international markets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Economists say Trump\u2019s charges are outdated. Three or four years ago, China was pretty clearly holding the yuan down. But more recently, market forces, not government bureaucrats, have been pushing the currency lower as the Chinese economy decelerates. If anything, the Chinese government has been intervening in the currency markets to slow the yuan\u2019s drop. On Oct. 14, the U.S. Treasury Department once again decided not to label China a currency manipulator.<\/span><\/p>\n

Congress normally approves tariffs and trade agreements. But Gary Hufbauer, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, says that lawmakers over the years have given the White House the power to act unilaterally in foreign affairs. Nothing \u201cprevents President Trump from imposing blunderbuss tariffs against one or more foreign countries,\u201d Hufbauer wrote. The World Trade Organization could later rule that the U.S. acted unfairly \u2014 but Trump has threatened to pull out of the WTO, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever the legality of Trump tariffs, other countries would almost certainly retaliate by slapping their own taxes on U.S. goods. The Peterson Institute warns that Trump\u2019s trade proposals \u201ccould unleash a trade war that would plunge the U.S. economy into recession and cost more than 4 million private sector American jobs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

CLINTON: The Peterson Institute predicts Clinton\u2019s program would be less damaging as it mainly calls for stepped-up enforcement of existing policies.<\/span><\/p>\n

EDITOR\u2019S NOTE _ One in an AP series examining the policy prescriptions offered by the major candidates for president.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/policy-prescriptions-trump-and-clinton-on-global-trade\/2016\/10\/24\/124f87e6-99b8-11e6-b552-b1f85e484086_story.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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