Re: <nettime> the great re-alignment

[Andre Rebentisch via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Trade policy is about mutual *export* interests. So these negotiations 
always favour exporting sectors of the economy at the expense of sectors 
challenged by imports.
Which means for the EU that trade sensitivities in the digital services 
sector discouraged competition policy etc. to unfold.
Protectionist policies that others, e.g. China, applied in the digital 
field are options that counter the spirit.
In any case the EU concept of Competitiveness-driven industrial policy 
is a dead parrot as the recent Draghi report demonstrated.

The US under Trump would challenge and disrupt the trade order. I 
dispute it would be a wise move, at least according to conventional 
wisdom of economists.

/A

Am 09.11.24 um 00:34 schrieb Brian Holmes via nettime-l:
>   However, "liberal" has a double meaning, because
> in addition to its proposal of freedom under law it also refers to the
> kinds of global free trade regimes operated in particular by the British
> across the long nineteenth century, then by the Americans after WWII. Here,
> freedom is conceived as free trade, and its benefits disproportionately
> accrue to the largest players, who have historically used their wealth to
> build up large armies and violently suppress any collective actor seeking
> ("unfairly," according to the liberals) to change the fundamental terms of
> trade. Thus, liberal internationalist regimes have tended to collapse due
> to conflicts over power disparities..
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