What do
you have that I want?
Trade
requires direct connections. If we have an excess of a product or the
capability to expand our production, we want to sell it overseas. If the other
country also has more capacity for other products we import, we could reach an
agreement. It is a country by country task.
Governors
work with businesses to identify what States import and want to export. They
target countries who need what we want to export. They all know that consumers
make the final decisions. They enter trade agreements based on the probability
that the deal would work. They do this on a commodity by commodity basis. If
France imports peanuts and they want to sell wine, each country approves its
access to its consumers. Once this is approved, ground teams from the business
go to the receiving country to set up the distribution. Foreign governments
help to train these exporters to comply with their rules.
The EU is
a bureaucracy and it’s hard to see what role they would play in setting up
these deals in a non-clunky way. They have certainly screwed up the domestic
policies of their member countries with idiotic, tyrannical UN-oriented laws.
We export
beef to Hong Kong and would like to export beef to China. But China already has
unfettered access to US markets. Trump will certainly start to level out our
trade imbalance with China by demanding a “this for that” deal on a commodity
by commodity basis.
On trade
with Cuba, Trump will begin by demanding legitimate elections in exchange for
Cuba’s access to US tourists and exports to the US.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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