In bad times, trade gets political
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1088889,00.html
If the US does not compromise, it may kick off a trade cold war
Larry Elliott
Thursday November 20, 2003
The Guardian
Tony Blair plans to bend George Bush's ear today about America's steel
tariffs. Gordon Brown has a plan to tear down transatlantic trade
barriers. TV has been running trade stories from the Confederation of
British Industry conference. And that can mean only one thing:
trouble.
In good times, trade is strictly for anoraks. Officials who labour
over the agreements are like medieval monks working for years on their
Latin bibles, speaking a language no one understands. But in bad
times, trade gets political. Then talk is not of tariff peaks and
quota reductions but of trade wars and tit-for-tat protectionism.
protectionism
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Larry Elliott
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