(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump often cites China’s massive exports to the U.S. as a grave injustice hanging over the world economy. But lately it pays to look at Chinese imports for the pain that his tariff wars are inflicting on global growth.The world’s biggest trading nation last month saw
-- President Donald Trump often cites China’s massive exports to the U.S. as a grave injustice hanging over the world economy. But lately it pays to look at Chinese imports for the pain that his tariff wars are inflicting on global growth.
Global commerce is “being hit by new trade restrictions on a historically high level,” World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo said in a report Monday that pointed to an increase in protectionist measures by G20 countries. “This will have consequences in increased uncertainty, lower investment and weaker trade growth.
Big economies such as the European Union, China and the U.S. are slowing for reasons ranging from Brexit to faltering manufacturing in China to the disappearing fiscal stimulus from tax cuts in the U.S. “I don’t believe for a second that what we’re doing is having a largely negative effect on economic growth,” Robert Lighthizer, Trump’s chief trade negotiator, told a congressional committee this month, pointing to a U.S. economy growing faster than G-7 peers. “The economy in a lot of other countries is slowing down and it doesn’t have anything to do, in my judgment, with what we’re doing.”“The U.S. economy is already suffering as China’s tariffs hit sales of agricultural products.
Production is shifting to other countries rather than coming home. Bloomberg’s new analysis found that in the first quarter of 2019, Taiwan saw sales to the U.S. of products hit by Trump’s China tariffs rise about 30% from a year earlier, while South Korea’s jumped 17%. Vietnam saw sales of China-tariffed products to the U.S. increase 27%.
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