US trade protectionism shades the world economy

In 2009, the United States frequently used trade remedy measures, causing serious concern and strong dissatisfaction of the world's major trading partners, which cast a shadow over the fragile recovery of the world economy.

The case of protection has frequently appeared at the beginning of President Obama’s inauguration, and his economic policy has revealed protectionism. On February 17 this year, Obama signed a $787 billion economic stimulus plan, which attracted attention to the “purchase of American goods” clause, which requires that the steel and finished goods used in the projects supported by the plan should be produced in the United States, which makes foreign countries Enterprises are restricted to a large number of government procurement projects and have been strongly opposed by countries around the world.

After that, American protectionist behavior has increased. In addition to the extensive use of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy, "337" and other trade remedies, Obama also broke the practice of all former US President George W. Bush's veto special case in the eight-year term. In September this year, he signed and passed the import for China. Special case for tires. The case involved an amount of 2.2 billion US dollars, affecting China's 100,000 tire workers, is considered to be the case of the Sino-US trade friction in the Obama era. The US "Wall Street Journal" even called Obama "the president of protectionism" in an editorial in September.

According to the US International Trade Commission, as of the end of November, the number of trade remedies in the United States in 2009 was about 50, of which more than half were for China. Only the tire special protection case and the oil pipeline anti-dumping and countervailing cases, the amount involved is close to 5 billion US dollars. In the eyes of trade experts, the United States has "high frequency of filing cases against China this year, and it is extremely rare in the history of world trade relief."

In addition to China, US trade protectionism also points to more than ten countries and regions such as Mexico, South Korea, Italy, Argentina, Indonesia, South Africa and Singapore.