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The market access you are referring to presumably involves setting up factories in China on a wholly-owned basis without forced technology transfer. That is all
by fspeech 9y ago
The market access you are referring to presumably involves setting up factories in China on a wholly-owned basis without forced technology transfer. That is all good but in what ways would that reduce the trade imbalance? So even if China agrees to that it would stay the perennial whipping boy, no?
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> even if China agrees to that it would stay the perennial whipping boy, no These tariffs were sloppily executed because they're for a domestic political audience that doesn't understand economics. Better tariffs would involve terms for release. If you do X, we release the tariffs. What China has to do to get these measures reversed is nebulous, but even the tacit link to forced tech transfers and the blocking of China's domestic market adds another variable to Chinese policymakers when considering additional measures.