Fears of rising protectionism in the West are inspiring a newfound Asian enthusiasm to promote intraregional trade.
The specific acquisition case you mentioned is different from the so-called trade and investment protectionism. Officials with the Ministry of Commerce have made elaborate explanation on this.
China' s eventual entry into the World Trade Organization( WTO). One centers on the total abandonment of protectionism, and the other on the adoption of generally accepted international accounting norms.
For the past18 months, the fund has warned of a disorderly unwinding of these imbalances, involving a slump in the US dollar, much higher global interest rates and a global recession, risking chaos in financial markets and a resurgence of protectionism.
promote global trade and investment and reject protectionism, to underpin prosperity; and
Mutterings that thinly veiled protectionism would see most of the contracts go to domestic players may not be wholly justified.
Lady Ashton has used her short tenure in Brussels to urge vigilance against protectionism at a time when the economic crisis is pressuring governments to favour national industries.
It could aggravate protectionism.
Furthermore, Asia remains vulnerable to external threats, including a disorderly unwinding of global imbalances and protectionism in the west.
It is untenable and detrimental to both sides to accuse and pressure one another on this issue or even resort to trade protectionism.
They will actively promote the Doha Round negotiations and oppose trade and investment protectionism together.
He knew that protectionism makes people poorer; but given the number of steel mills in swing states, he thought he'd better protect them anyway.
The greater risk to the world economy is that a recession and falling house prices would add to Americans' existing concerns about stagnant real wages, creating more support for protectionism.
Time will tell if Canadians, who pride themselves on being more worldly and open-minded than their southern neighbours, can resist the lure of such selective protectionism.
We need counters against the financial and subsidy protectionism that arose out of the crisis.
Under the current circumstances, we particularly need to oppose trade and investment protectionism of all forms.
She dismisses worries about the colossal cost of protectionism or of debt-servicing with a devalued currency as scaremongering.
In economics it means avoiding protectionism, which is doubly self-defeating as it both undermines China's faith in the system and makes America poorer and less able to defend itself.
Second, with these policies growing with a vengeance, any Western victory on the renminbi would be pyrrhic as Western firms could be subject to greater murky protectionism by the Chinese authorities.
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