Trade Wars: the End of Globalisation?
.What does Trump's abandonment of the TPP mean for global trade deals?
Donald Trump has promised to tear up the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal – or TPP – on his first day in office. The massive trade deal agreed in 2015 would have lowered tariffs and deepened economic ties between twelve countries, which together cover 40% of the world’s economy. The demise of the TPP comes as other global trade deals, such as the TTIP between the US and EU, face calls to be dropped or renegotiated. On this week’s Newshour Extra, Owen Bennett Jones and his guests discuss why there is now such a backlash against multi-country trade deals, and whether this marks an end to the steady progress of globalisation.
(Photo: People hold signs as they demonstrate against the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images)
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US TPP negotiator "discouraged" by Trump
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Contributors
Dr Swarti Dhingra - specialist in international trade and investment at the London School of Economics
Marietje Schaake - Dutch member of European parliament. Member of the Parliamentary Committee on International Trade and Vice-Chair for the EU Delegation for relations with the United States
Mark Dearn - the senior trade campaigner at War on Want, an anti-poverty campaign groupWendy Cutler - former Deputy US Trade Representative
Theo Leggatt - BBC Business News Reporter
Carrie Gracie - BBC China Editor
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- Fri 25 Nov 201609:06GMTBBC World Service except Americas and the Caribbean & News Internet
- Fri 25 Nov 201612:06GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Fri 25 Nov 201623:06GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Sat 26 Nov 201604:06GMTBBC World Service except Australasia & News Internet
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