The main argument about trade protectionism

Protectionism itself is wrong. Since freedom is achieved, freedom should be maximized. What to do now to protect it is actually the strong rhetoric of the Western powers.

Freedom is also what they are talking about. Protection is also what they are talking about. To put it bluntly, it's in their interests.

If you don't meet it, you can't. It doesn't matter if you're free or not. This speaks volumes about the ugly hearts of the Western powers.

Therefore, only strong and influential can not be oppressed and insulted. If you want to be free, you shouldn't have protection. This is inherently contradictory.

There is no freedom at all with protection.

With the deepening of the impact of the international financial crisis on the real economy and its spread around the world, some countries are re-raising the banner of protectionism and adding barriers to the export of Chinese enterprises, which is bound to further intensify friction with China. Since the beginning of the past decade, China has been one of the countries that have suffered the most friction in the world. At the root of this, there are several main reasons:

On the one hand, China's export capacity is very strong, and its global market share is expanding very rapidly, which brings many contradictions. At the same time, China's product structure is low-level, and Chinese products with low added value can easily become the focus of restrictions. On the other hand, China's ** pattern is unbalanced, and it has become the largest **deficit** for many **partners**.

Whether it is to promote the first to live, or to promote development with economic laws, whether to protect the country's economy first, or to use economic laws.

The benefits of protectionism.

1. Protect local industries, increase income, and help solve part of the employment problem;

2. From the perspective of citizens, the unemployment rate will decrease, and the personal income of citizens will increase. In fact, in a word, it is the local government that really benefits from protection.

The disadvantages of protectionism.

1. Citizens are not entitled to their original rights. The reason why there is ** protection is because local products are not as good as those in other places, and with ** protection, citizens cannot buy better products;

2. There will also be restrictions on the development of local industries, because the emergence of first-class protection virtually reduces the competitive pressure of local industries, which is not conducive to the progress of society as a whole.

First, protection can harm a country's unprotected industrial sectors and consumers. With the rapid advancement of economic globalization, the world has formed a global unified market, in which various factors have been effectively allocated. If a country implements ** protection, it will directly or indirectly increase the cost of the importer, and the importer will pass on this part of the cost to its own consumers, thereby harming the interests of consumers.

In addition, protective measures enable producers of non-protected industries to provide mandatory subsidies to producers of protected industries, often resulting in income-shifting effects that outweigh the benefits and distort the distribution of benefits.

Second, protection can lead to a sharp decline in exporting countries and economies. If a country (usually a large country) takes the lead in imposing strict protection in a crisis, the amount of the main partner to whom it exports will plummet. The ensuing ripple effect is that the rapid contraction of the exporting country's economy will lead to the bankruptcy and closure of a large number of export-hungry enterprises, and the unemployment rate will rise sharply, thus dragging down the country's economy rapidly.

In particular, countries (regions) that implement export-oriented foreign trade development strategies will suffer a greater blow due to the impact of foreign trade dependence.

Thirdly, the protection of a country or group of countries in crisis could trigger global retaliatory measures that would worsen the world economy. Protectionist policies not only hinder the exports of other countries to the country and put other countries' industries at a disadvantage, but also affect the country's exports to other countries and put their own industries in trouble, because the protectionist policies of one country often trigger similar retaliatory policies in other countries. The implementation of this kind of retaliation has confined the industrial market in which each country has a comparative advantage to its own country, resulting in a further contraction of the world economy as a whole.

Fourth, protection will undermine the pattern of economic globalization that has been formed. Economic globalization is the inevitable result of the development of the world economy to a certain stage, and it is the interdependence of economic activities on a world scale, especially the formation of a world market, which enables capital to flow freely in the world beyond national boundaries and allocate resources on a global scale. Economic globalization has not only increased world output and consumer welfare, but also led to the adjustment of industrial structure worldwide.

The protection will inevitably interrupt the production value chain and the normal division of labor system formed by globalization, which will mean the overall regression of the world economy.

In short, protection will not only cause a sharp decline in the world's largest amount, intensified friction between countries, chaos in currency circulation and other problems, but also make countries around the world fall into a strange circle of deep distrust.

Protectionism, the idea and policy of restricting imports to protect domestic goods from competition in the domestic market and providing various preferences to domestic goods to enhance their international competitiveness. In terms of restricting imports, tariff barriers and non-tariff barriers are mainly adopted. The former mainly prevents the large import of foreign goods by imposing high import tariffs; The latter includes a series of non-tariff measures such as import licensing and import quotas to restrict the free import of foreign goods.

These measures are also an important means for economically underdeveloped countries to protect national industries and develop their national economies. For developed countries, it is an important tool for adjusting the balance of payments and correcting the deficit.

In the period of free competitive capitalism, the later capitalist countries often pursued protectionist policies. Developed countries, on the other hand, advocate freedom, while protectionism is only used as a temporary measure to deal with the crisis. In the monopoly stage, the protectionism pursued by the monopoly capitalist countries is no longer just a means of resisting the import of foreign goods, but also a means of external expansion and competition for the world market.

The central idea of protectionism, old and new, is the same: any economic policy may affect the pattern of income distribution in a country, and thus cause different reactions from different social classes or interest groups. However, compared with the old and the new, the new protectionism is superior, with strong coercion, large and direct impact on all parties, a wide range of constraints and a variety of manifestations.