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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made made products over the next 10 years. His Carrier move may be in the right direction, but the Taiwan phone call is not. communities. To understand the U.S.

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America’s Uneasy History with Free Trade

Harvard Business

trade policy, opening both the American and foreign markets to an unprecedented degree. This proved the most controversial of all US trade accords, in part because average wages in Mexico were only a fraction of those in the United States, giving Mexican products an advantage on labor-intensive goods and thus threatening U.S.