LESSON 2 THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

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presidential campaign that he intended to either renegotiate or withdraw from most of the United States’ international trade agreements

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President Trump made it clear during the 2016

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he may finally focus his energy on these campaign promises, which would put our prosperity at risk.

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In 2018

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he announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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Early on in 2017

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We’re already beginning to see the negative impact of that decision. Our economic and political influence in Asia may decline in

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2018 and the years ahead

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He has also set his sights on the North American Free Trade Agreement and began renegotiating its terms. Talks are likely to accelerate in

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2018, with the pact’s unravelling a real possibility

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And in interviews, he has declared the World Trade Organization

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“a disaster.”

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Globalization and Labor Market Integration in Late Nineteenth-
and Early Twentieth-Century Asia

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By: Gregg Huff and Giovanni Caggiano