The services pact should benefit the US, which is the world’s largest exporter of services. Meanwhile, the US, EU, and Japan are discussing ways to counter at the WTO the market-distorting practices of non-market economies — namely, China’s. Separately, the US and EU are also holding discussions on strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, where […]
EU’s CBAM and Fit for 55 hurt business, consumers, and trade partners
Encouraged by the Biden administration’s $3.5 trillion green plans — yet to be passed — Brussels’ EU bureaucracy is pursuing its own drastic de-carbonization plan — also yet to be passed. It controversially features tariffs on the imputed CO2 content of imports to the EU. The July 12th to July 18th, 2021 roundup of major […]
Boeing-Airbus trade truce concluded but China overproduction worries continue
The June 14th to 20th, 2021 roundup of major trade developments, with L.C. The US-EU Summit held in Brussels on June 15th had a welcome trade truce as its outcome. But the strategic commentariat in the US was less complimentary regarding the whirlwind of conferences (G7, US-EU, NATO, Putin) that President Biden attended. Walter Russell […]
Conflict with EU likely in 2nd Trump administration
“Crunch time” for multi-billion dollar US-EU aircraft and digital-service tax disputes; Japan joins US-Brazil proposed WTO reforms to curb Chinese violations; farmers now getting more income from US government than from ag sales The weekly trade report with L.C. Two important sources of US conflict with the EU bear watching. The first is the conflict […]
Xi’s Plan for Full Control of Private Sector
In China, the dictatorship marches on. The US president and House prepare countermeasures to secure critical supply chains, but the administration is still harrying allies including Canada, the EU, Vietnam, Mexico, and the WTO. The weekly trade report with L.C. Chinese Communist Party Secretary-General Xi Jinping is promoting even greater Chinese Communist Party (CCP) control […]
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