i. don't know this soon to be too nice to be a good. discover the world. subscribe to documentary on you tube. the world seems a pretty topsy turvy place right now u.s. president donald trump has been doing what he can to turn the long existing system of international trade on its head he is a keen advocate of trade wars and a slap to punitive tariffs on china and germany. says that german cars are exported

unfairly to the u.s. and claims that they pose a threat to america's security. forces. we . will be doing it. this way why does. this is nonsense telling trend in global trade and it comes at a time when more and more people are worried about their jobs or feel completely marginalized it's all rich man's game. they're destroying america that's what they're going. just on jobs. everything is minimum wage or little. alice this is you get scared when you hear jobs are at risk somewhere like . it's a vicious circle he just can't get away from globalization and for. growth as

asian seem to have. for many people. how our president trumps aggressive high state policies impacting on international trade and our trade practices any better . soon kevin to hunger managing director of a german steel company says trump's america france trade policy doesn't make sense when targets b.t.h. factories produce about two hundred thousand tonnes of stainless steel a year ten percent of that is exported to the u.s. . but in spring twenty eighteen those exports were hit with a twenty five percent important target that of course raises the price of german steel in the u.s. but a number of american manufacturing companies need that steel so they pay the extra

tax. this is also their demise. most of those companies have to import steel from other countries. it's the only way they can get it because the u.s. just doesn't produce enough high quality steel. and that's why steel imports are so high that dick. some for the soviet americans are paying more to capita cost of those terrorists themselves so it is on them with. the knowledge the far right and the steel processing industry in the u.s. is extremely worried about those higher prices because it in turn makes their products more expensive. these are given to hard predicts that trumps terror of policy will backfire because the u.s. products that are made with german steel including cars machines and industrial

pipes now cost more turnover remain stable for now because the companies can supply the high quality product needed but the tariffs are also making german still manufacturers very nervous. i just say you know say that we're stuck in a trade war that slowly escalating or we can't get out of it how do you see it. your fall is that the danger is that things will eventually spin out of control and at some point trade will just collapse. i definitely describe this as a war not least because of the huge scale of it. and. i think that ideology you kind of care of our imposed on the automobile industry we're talking about a situation that could affect many jobs was not the all right that to get here so we're really concerned about it. but also means i was all. for years

economists and politicians have been telling us global free trade is good for everyone president trump apparently disagrees now we've got a trade war on our hands what's up in the u.s. . we've come to the rust belt a part of the us which has been in industrial decline for decades new tariffs was supposed to help the steel industry but that hasn't happened on business after another has gone bankrupt the downturn in the steel industry in this part of the country began in the nine hundred seventy s. and it has had a massive impact on local communities. president trump tweeted about this decline repeatedly during the election campaign as he tried to win over a blue collar workers. to.

general motors was once the well to launch manufacturer of ultimately but now three of its factories are on the verge of collapse like this one in town ohio where the chevrolet cruze is spelt. scott she took used to work on the concert sandy like he drives a chevrolet but not a cruise he prefers a powerful gas guzzling come on. this is a twenty seventeen fiftieth anniversary camaro s.s. to s.s. convertible quad black edition so it's black black roof black interior and black wheels these cars don't exist you'll find for twenty seven say it's for sale on the internet. they see a president trump visited a high and demanded the general motors keep the hope and g.m.

plans to close the plant anyway. of the whole plant is going to close and it's close get a break everyone's heart because all these people like to be interested. that is to make decent money work hard and go out and spend their money in the community and thrive in the community and general motors is the largest thing we have employer wise troubled county ohio. was living the american dream and he believed the donald trump could do something to change the laws of free trade that so often destroy jobs. they did that we call in at the drive in restaurant when scott sr well. c.c. doesn't much money ham that's typical for many people in this part of our hire a lot of the jobs that pay well have disappeared. still she makes great food. all but bottom longer and although.

now the g.m. plant is closing what do you think you know what does it mean for your brother. or you wouldn't just not in their jobs around here know. everything is minimum wage or a little bogged down and there is a standard person just can't live on that it's. impossible thirty bucks so are to ten bucks an hour will have ever worked very well you see there are hundreds of them indeed all dorothy toward the good of the average slave never make my save but it. is called sister is thinking about buying a new car a german car for the first time in my life ever thought to buy another product besides general motors and she likes what i love is it all of my good outlets and they make us any more we are going to leave i have money around to heart and i say first time i don't know all of the smaller doesn't appear in germany it's a big issue. so here's a rust belt resident who wants to buy a german s.u.v.

that's built in tennessee for the us market only well trained in the age of globalization pays no attention to international poor. yes but that's not what president trump simplistic catchphrases and punitive tyrants would have you believe . in. many ohio residents like scott and his system bought into trump's promises but a local official of the auto workers union says that tariffs don't protect jobs quite the opposite in fact. that tariffs and they want to impose these tariffs it actually kind of hurt the auto industry because still the price of still went up so it's cost g.m. to build cost them more money to build the cars here now if the prices still is higher so they're continuing to move this work to mexico bailey david greene points out that the president has rewarded big corporations that transferred jobs to

mexico to count labor costs. president trump gave him huge tax breaks in this g.o.p. tax plan and in that tax plan it's actually cheaper for companies like general motors to import cars instead of paying twenty one percent tax now they only pay ten and a half percent tax right on their profits so it's cheaper for them to actually bring these cars in from outside the country and we think that that's wrong and we think that that's not helping our cause here at all. so instead of america it's jobs lost still trumps tyrus and trade wars remain popular with many voters the president recently claimed that imported german concept present a threat to america's national security and he threatened to stop a tariff of up to twenty five percent on them. i've come to the city of youngstown to meet the associate editor of the business journal brian he's the newspaper's expert on the decline of the automobile industry

. a number of us presidents of trying to change american trade policies particularly skeptical of donald trump's approach. the trade deficit hasn't changed people are still buying imports despite higher prices in and whether or not those prices will really be that detrimental to the consumer is yet to be seen. in the answer isn't as you said tariffs per se. the answer is in the trade war the answer is actually finding different ways more innovative ways to manufacture products in this country. trade wars no one ever wins a trade war we have to remember that it was the chances yes. i may have differ with the president on that killer issue because no one really wins

a trade war. it's who loses the least i think when it comes down to it. and studies indicate that while global free trade has helped the rich to increase their wealth it is also destroyed the jobs of many blue collar workers a trade war would likely make the situation worse. dan o'brien talked about innovative jobs but what happens when new technologies end up competing with each other. we've seen that in germany in the effort to rebuild the economy and the infrastructure in the former communist east the chemical production sector in the beautiful dolphin region was wiped out by government subsidies helped to create a new solar technology industry there and various konetzni worked as a supervisor at a company that made solar cells. it was the mood like back then solar valley sounds like silicon valley really exciting. look. there was

a new sense of optimism people were saying that the technology sector was growing and creating more jobs in the region unemployment started falling. him of a no. government subsidies helped the new solar cell sector to get started and compete effectively in world markets but at about the same time china massively increased subsidies in its solar cell industries in the german sector crashed once again and dress can yet sneak found it himself facing an uncertain future. you get scared when you hear jobs are at risk somewhere. and it's even worse for older workers. who are afraid that you won't be able to find a new job in the same region. german minister of economics and technology at the time. was opposed to more subsidies he preferred a free market approach. yes it is close to and almost i'm going to video here of

a christmas speaking in the bundestag and he's talking about whether there's some cities for solar energy sancta should continue. so. i don't think there's been a record increase in the solar cell sector and eighty million customers in four million small to medium sized business is paying the price of this sort of command economy policy is not acceptable here in europe i'm just a few minutes what do you think he meant by that. but it is well that's politics for you it hasn't changed. it's a complicated situation. and it is pretty hard to make any sense of it first the german government provided subsidies and then cut them then the e.u. stepped in with protective tariffs but china with its command economy became the world leader in the production of solar cells on grass konetzni was demoted to

a janitor's job at the factory. tariffs and subsidies seem to be part of the cutthroat world of international trade and brass konetzni and probably feel like pieces on the chessboard of globalization. economist yes says the populist donald trump is playing to the existential fears of these workers . there's one reason why donald trump became president. he won states that had been hit hard by globalization in the midwest plus pennsylvania and ohio. these states traditionally vote democrat but he managed to carry them by attacking globalization and china and his campaign speeches without these states that have lost out because of globalization it's impossible to understand donald trump success. for. president trump is clearly

abandon the principles of free trade in favor of tariffs and trade was but free trade has never really been free. for schools of all everyone's talking about free trade right now. but free trade does not exist it never has existed. there's always an element of protectionism in trade policy. this is just sometimes more concealed in some cases than others. i don't think it would be a good idea in the long term for world trade to develop into a sort of jungle where the u.s. china and the e.u. subsidies and protectionism to compete with each other these artists who come through. well trade may not be fair but now more than ever one rule seems to govern survival of the fittest for example in africa where the u.s. and china are expanding their trade presence. both

countries see excellent opportunities in the west african country of ghana or the gold coast as it was once known. this part of the continent is rich in natural resources. the european union is also involved in trade here and is acting in its own interests by demanding duty free market access for subsidized european agricultural products ghana of course would prefer to continue to produce its own farm products to keep young people in rural areas gainfully employed. but the e.u. is having none of that. article i've come to ghana's capital our crowd to meet economist and labor expert. we stop by to monitor market to says the prices are set here on a daily basis. that someone is someone you know a lot to do is fixing the price in the morning. was the sellers tell

me that they need a fair price it's the dry season now so tomatoes are brought down from ghana's far north. they can't compete with inexpensive tomato paste but some ported from europe and china. you can find it on sale just about everywhere. fresh local tomatoes are left to rot. and it's hot and humid right now so those tomato should be processed quickly but that's not an option this is the truth here john. how about the long walk you. it was definitely important competitions for you guys but there's a message to dismiss his. lawyers must apply to bring your from your old realize that a metro from italy is heavier falsifies i do it than commission of alpha was

a trip to live on a platter and in time i was a less. visible they're not going to sell as i think military value has not. gone as main agricultural exports cocoa it is the world's second largest producer and export to ours. but almost none of it is processed into chocolate here that's down in other countries. germany for example is europe's leading producer of chocolate is. an ice such the local markets for chocolate bars but couldn't find any we finally managed to track some down at base carriage the shortage of processed chocolate here comes as no surprise to us whose father was a coca family. produced close.

by you have to make a special effort to not have to look it chuckie han liking gemini the way you produce zero amount of coke. is every way so how many knock it off i'm as problem in the hop is that truckload before and i'm not to throw it out my part i did before he died even though you produced a large amount of column letters in a possible to produce unexplored destruction. to say germany or you are. closer reason of all but it's probably because of the trip policies you mention so it doesn't push us to put. it more long as the rule. on baghdad put on the clock not survive it. there's a good one as you know says it would. go. ahead and tariff escalation. tariff escalation is a new concept for accounting for years the country was allowed to protect itself

against cheap agricultural imports and exports its own farm products duty free. but in recent free trade agreements the e.u. ordered ghana to drop its terrorists if it wanted to continue exporting coca. was there some pressure from the u p a new interactive tribe out of the other to impose a. significant amount of pressure to their warning that if you don't know push a terrorist and i remember this deadline you are poor countries are going to lose their market assets and to appear to have followed the will. have gone. you clearly see that this is a european first policy would clear insists. everybody has acted in the past like mr trump. says.

so when it comes to international trade it's europe first and germany first although we don't shout about it by the year as starts we just poke pressure on our less powerful trading partners. i head back to europe via italy. i've come to the southern province of where tomatoes are grown joining this summer for export. i'm on my way to visit one of the farms. the crop is being harvested mostly by african immigrants. one of them is in three c. in new south from ghana he wanted a better life so he made his way to north africa and then to italy now he's stuck here. i ask him what he earns picking tomatoes from tomatoes are still going to

do so much worse just three year or fifty cents per hour and not pay i want a son i say how much to do per hour how much do you hear oh i almost gave you take one zero zero one zero at a time is one hour you make one. you know so you you get three your three year fifty. they are your family or you will not teach you all. the logic sure that the problem they just italian is almost black like it's living i can't answer to say. three c. is earning next to nothing harvesting e.u. subsidized tomatoes and in the process is indirectly hurting the tomato industry in his home country. like scott j. took in the us and then transcon its knee in pitiful three c. in noosa is subject to the forces of international trade the local farm workers

union is demanding higher wages for these people go union official daniella your cavalli is looking into it receives cakes. for it yucca valley notes that edriss last employer paid him less than half the national minimum wage. bills period. was to start a bus. with such low wages they can't afford to pay rent and it's impossible for them to become integrated into italian society. because it is going to be very very abundant and many of them live illegally in abandoned houses in the countryside where they live in. ghettos near towns. i want to see where you treaty lives so i drive him home to an abandoned military airfield. migrant workers live in barracks

and containers set up on what used to be the runway. music houses for people to for many. twenty dollars transit traffic people. get sick getters from migrant workers right in the middle of the european union. yet there's my place to serve. the richer get the q. e three see in noosa is corporate when a rock and a hard place he can't become part of european society and he can't go back to ghana where he would be shunned as

a loser he's one of the victims of globalization i'd like to talk to the e.u. trade commissioner about subsidies tariffs and worker exploitation but she has no time for an interview so instead of visit chancellor merkel's personal representative for africa policy and ask him the same questions. do germany and the e.u. treat the victims of globalization any different than the us starts right now. because. in italy we saw african farm workers being treated essentially like slang a lot less than italy's minimum wage harvesting tomatoes that are then exported to ghana it has ruined the domestic tomato market that is that makes sense as he was not this was in kinds and you know unfortunately i think maybe ghana overestimated its own ability. it improved an interim trade agreement that wasn't in its own

favor. was is that fair trade does. make look just as we did not seek a serious discussion on trade issues. we have decided that free trade is good. and we wanted to get our products into that market and so we try to persuade the africans to agree to our proposals and so. we didn't even think about the fact that it's ridiculous to bring people from ghana to italy to harvest tomatoes and then send those tomatoes back it will make a lot more sense to produce tomatoes in africa it has the right weather for it supports him busy to chance or agrees to the chancellor sees it like i do. know who says that his policies have to be reconsidered to improve trade relations and end the migration of refugees from africa to europe. was full of prosperous africa is in the best interests of germany and europe you've now and that means. that you firstly we simply cannot try to integrate hundreds of millions

of people into europe is. to put it simply for every job that exists in africa means one family less that wants to come to europe as a woman you always gets in africa is in the form of. europe first china first america fast. konetzni. and in the us scott she took over wanted a better life. they didn't get it in the age of donald trump international trade has become a game that only powerful states can where it's now the survival of the fittest but what happened to the promise of prosperity for everyone. an idea that was coined in germany.

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