Tag: protectionism
Protectionism and taxes: traveling by plane across Africa, an expensive way of the cross
A traveler looks at a flight information board at Addis Ababa airport, February 5, 2024 in Ethiopia (AFP/Archives/Michele Spatari) To travel the 1,000 km between Libreville and Bangui, it takes…
“Economic protectionism has not always prevented growth”
JUntil the end of the Ancien Régime, France did not really constitute a coherent economic space. Of course, geographical proximity favored trade between the cities of ancient Gaul – it…
policies torn between protectionism and free trade
Can we imagine a more Macronian subject? The demands of French farmers have oscillated, for fifty years, between defense of sovereignty and freedom to trade, between protection and exports. “Produce…
“In continuity with Trump, “Bidenomics” reinforces fully assumed American protectionism”
HASFollowing the subprime crisis of 2007-2008, popular anger against growing social inequalities in the United States was expressed both on the right, with the reactionary agitation of the Tea Parties,…
“The subsidy war between Americans, Chinese and Europeans and their sectoral protectionism does not suit the South”
VSLike the plagues of the Apocalypse in the Old Testament, hard blows repeatedly fall on the poorest of countries. Successive shocks feeding off each other, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate delusions,…
Protectionism returns to the French debate
The president of the French Building Federation, Olivier Salleron, the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, and the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, during the Meeting of French Entrepreneurs…
How the rise of green protectionism hurts poor countries
Many exporters in poor countries are anxiously awaiting the end of the year. From October 2023, the European Union (EU) will gradually introduce a carbon border tax, called the “carbon…
“Uncoordinated shifts from free trade to protectionism exacerbate international tensions”
Un year has passed since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and there are no signs that the flames of war are going out. Why does the war continue?…
Violent Chinese charge against Washington’s “hysteria” and “protectionism”
(AFP/Odd ANDERSEN) The head of Chinese diplomacy delivered a violent charge against Washington on Saturday, denouncing its “hysterical” reaction to the overflight of a balloon and its economic “protectionism”. In…
Frenchman comes as reinforcement: What is Habeck doing in Washington?
French comes as reinforcement What is Habeck doing in Washington? By Jan Ganger, Washington 2/6/2023, 6:12 p.m Both the US government and Robert Habeck are committed to fighting climate change.…
the return of a classic protectionism, coupled with an unprecedented commercial rearmament”
JNever in history has the economy been so used as a weapon of war (“weaponized”, according to the English expression). We are witnessing a singular double phenomenon: the return of…
The difficult quest for a common European response to American protectionism
President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the site of ViaSat, an American technology company, in Carlsbad, California, November 4, 2022. SAUL LOEB / AFP It’s not a hemorrhage yet,…