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The economists Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes (right) at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire [27]. The WTO precursor, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), was established by a multilateral treaty of 23 countries in 1947 after the end of World War II, in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicated to international economic cooperation—such ...
When trade takes place between two or more states, factors like currency, government policies, economy, judicial system, laws, and markets influence trade. To ease and justify the process of trade between countries of different economic standing in the modern era, some international economic organizations were formed, such as the World Trade ...
Economic globalization refers to the widespread international movement of goods, capital, services, technology and information. It is the increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional, and local economies across the world through an intensification of cross-border movement of goods, services, technologies and capital ...
Goldman Sachs Economic Research estimates that long-term tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico could raise core inflation – measured by the PCE – by 0.7% and reduce economic growth by 0.4%.
Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.
Trump did go forward with a 10% tariff on imports from China. China responded with limited tariffs on U.S. imports and filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization.
Ironically, China has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. at the World Trade Organization to contest latest round of tariffs, citing a “blatant act of unilateralism and trade protectionism” and ...
A 1982 World Bank report stated, "There exists a chronic shortage of skills which pervades not only the small manufacturing sector but the entire economy and the over-loaded government machine." [45]: 32 Tanzania, for example, had only two engineers at the beginning of the import-substitution period.