Sakset fra en som vet hva han snakker om (fra et lengre innnlegg om toll mot Canada og amerikansk landbrukspolitikk), dette er interressant:
There are very real problems with current trade architecture - to take but one, the US agreed to implicitly subsidize many countries (through differential bound tariffs, etc) in order to incentivize them to join the WTO, and after the wild success of free trade in the 1990s and early 2000s the asymmetry in tariff rates has outlived its usefulness. But this is mainly a phenomenon with non-G7 countries; it doesn’t make a lot of sense (to me at least) to pick a fight with Canada when Canada is one of the overall lowest tariffing countries, and the issues with Canada (as with the EU) are generally non-tariff barriers.
The biggest overall problem — and this is not limited to the US, for every G7 country (and more) know this — was the inclusion into the WTO of a huge non-market economy that simply does not play by the rules. No prizes for guessing who. They haven’t exactly caused all the problems, but they’ve made all of them worse and created a few new ones.
There are very real problems with current trade architecture - to take but one, the US agreed to implicitly subsidize many countries (through differential bound tariffs, etc) in order to incentivize them to join the WTO, and after the wild success of free trade in the 1990s and early 2000s the asymmetry in tariff rates has outlived its usefulness. But this is mainly a phenomenon with non-G7 countries; it doesn’t make a lot of sense (to me at least) to pick a fight with Canada when Canada is one of the overall lowest tariffing countries, and the issues with Canada (as with the EU) are generally non-tariff barriers.
The biggest overall problem — and this is not limited to the US, for every G7 country (and more) know this — was the inclusion into the WTO of a huge non-market economy that simply does not play by the rules. No prizes for guessing who. They haven’t exactly caused all the problems, but they’ve made all of them worse and created a few new ones.