Somebody explain how the USA is NOT in a trade war now? How can you fear something that is already happening? Such Bull sh!+.
Fork tongued Free Traitor™ talk.
Exactly...
Why sign multi-national trade agreement like NAFTA or TPP? Do we get some sort of efficiency gain from managing less trade rules? Does it allow us to fire a bunch of government administrators. No, in fact, the bureaucracy continues to grow.
Multi-national agreements seem to do one thing very well: they over-simplify trading rules to the point where individual nations lose control over over the nuances of international commerce. We can no longer manage fairness and reciprocity at a country-by-country or industry-by-industry level.
Trump understood this con-artist game and is pushing for America to have bi-lateral agreements with nations. And since America is the biggest international marketplace in the world, negotiating one-to-one agreements with individual countries will give us great leverage to protect our jobs.
And if a nation doesn't agree to our terms, they can go pound salt: There are plenty of other nations America can trade with.
AT&T sends its phone calls and data across the world. How do they manage that? Well, each year there's the International Telecoms Week event in Chicago, a meeting place where 6,000 people come from almost every country in the world to buy and sell global telecom routes.
AT&T or Verizon don't have one global agreement that applies to all its global partners. No, they manage each relationship separately.
And the big story today is that most global telecom deals are increasingly managed through software. Big data and smarter software tools are making it far easier to monitor global telecom deals.
Governments can do the same. GO TRUMP!