architects. scientists and artists. trying to cultural out of the darkest leaders during. the renaissance factor scores of people twenty second d. w. . 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. if

they do their we go to jackson. lee then we'll be doing. the great work that does. this is nonsense ling trending 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. they're destroying america that's what they're going. to jog around here now. everything is minimum wage or little. then you get scared when you hear jobs are at risk somewhere. it's a vicious circle he just can't get away from globalization for the. group as asian simply. for membership. 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 given 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 import tariff 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.

is also to. most of those companies have to import steel from other countries. and. it's the only way they can get it because the u.s. just doesn't produce enough high quality steel i mean. that's why steel imports are so high that. low and citizen from the americans are paying more to capita cost of those terrorists themselves so as. soon as. the father wrecked the steel processing industry in the u.s. is extremely worried about those higher prices because it in turn makes their products more expensive. center of into harvard predicts that trump's tower of policy will backfire because the u.s. products that it made with german steel including cars machines and industrial pipes now cost more turnover remain stable for now because the companies can supply a high quality product needed but the tariffs are also making german still

manufacturers very nervous. i'm just going to say that we're stuck in a trade war that slowly escalating and we can't get out of it how do you see it. defies that is just 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 or is not the all life that you're fair so we're really concerned about it. but also news i thought. 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 u.s. which has been in industrial decline for decades new terrace 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 blue collar workers. general motors was once the well it's not just manufacture of automobiles but now

three of its factories are on the verge of collapse like this one in town ohio where the chevrolet cruze his belt. scott she took used to work on the concert assembly line he drives a chevrolet but not a cruise he prefers a powerful gas guzzling tomorrow. this is a twenty seventeen fiftieth anniversary camaro s.s. two 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 seventy it's first sale on the internet. of a.c.i.m. president trump visited ohio and demanded the general motors keep the town plant open g.m. plans to close the plant anyway. well the whole place is going to close and it's going to. break everyone's heart because all these people like to do tourist floyd

is to make decent money work hard and then go out and spend their money in the community and drive in the community and general motors is the largest thing we have employer wise trouble county ohio. was living the american dream and he believed that donald trump could do something to change the rules of free trade that so often destroying jobs. they did that we call in at the drive in restaurant when scott c. still well. they see see doesn't much money him that's typical for many people in this part of the hire a lot of the jobs that pay well have disappeared. still she makes great food. all about i'm wrong here and although. now the g.m. plant is closing what do you think what does it mean for your brother. or you wouldn't just not new jobs around here now. everything is minimum wage or little

bugs. and there is a standard person just can't live on that it's. impossible thirty bucks so arts at seven bucks an hour warren to ever work for you know you started seventy dollars already read. the beverage slave the make let's save money. sister is thinking about buying a new car a german car for the first time in my life the ever thought to buy another product besides general knowledge and she likes what i'm what is it although i get outlets and they make us any more we are going to at least it's at least i have one around a car and i say it's time i don't know the smallest 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 u.s. market only well trained in the eight. nation pays no attention to international

borders but that's not what president trump simplistic catchphrases and punitive tyrants would have you believe. in. many residents like scott and his sister have bought into trump's promises but a local official of the auto workers union says that tariffs don't protect jobs the opposite in fact. that tariffs and they want to impose these tariffs actually kind of hurt the auto industry because the price of still what so it 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 labor costs. president gave them 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 now 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 cancer represent a threat to america's national security and he threatened to slap 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 . and. a number of us present. trying to

change american trade policy o'brien is 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. mr trump says yes. i may have differ with the president on that killer issue because no one really wins a trade or it's who loses the least i think when it comes down to it you know. 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. down o'brian 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 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 that andrea's konetzni worked as a supervisor at a company that made solar cells. what was the mood like back then cell of valley sounds like silicon valley exciting. new wall 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. more than you

know. government subsidies help 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 and the german sector crashed once again and drabs come yet sneek found himself facing an uncertain future. arms this is 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. like you're german minister of economics and technology at the time was opposed to more subsidies he preferred a free market approach yes it is of course his video here of iceland speaking in the bundestag and he's talking about whether the subsidies for the solar energy sector should continue. so much or not that's an order and 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 businesses are paying the price this sort of command economy policy is unacceptable here in europe i was in this case even though this is a 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 andre has come yet and he was demoted to a janitor's job at the factory. terrorists and subsidies seem to be part

of the cutthroat world of international trade and trans 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 have 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 in his campaign speeches without these states that have lost out because of globalization it's impossible to understand donald trump success. for. president trump has clearly abandoned the principles of free trade in favor of tariffs and trade wars but free trade has never really been free. for.

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. 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. i've come to ghana's capital our crowd to meet economist and labor expert. we stop by to morrow market out to says the prices are set here on a daily basis. that someone is someone in the market who is fixing the prize 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 that's imported from europe

and china. you can find it on sale just about everywhere. fresh local tomatoes are left to rot. it's hot and humid right now so those tomato should be processed quickly but that's not an option. to subtly here john. how about the arm or what you. because they can get them from our competition is good guy but there's no message could be said that his. choice must apply to bring your from your old lies that are metal from italy is over yourself advised by do it down commission of applause that's it for too long in manufacturing in china is a little better. this a lot of their self-interest is i think of the everything that has.

gone as main agricultural exports has cocoa it is the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil. but almost none of it is processed into chocolate here thanks don in other countries. germany for example is europe's leading producer of chocolate has. such the local markets for chocolate bars but can find any we finally managed to track some down at this carriage the shortage of processed chocolate here comes as no surprise to you two whose father was a. produce clothes. which of course buy you have to make a special effort in order to locate chuckie ha like in germany where your produce zero amount of coke. is everywhere so how many are knocked off i'm as

a problem in the hop is that truckload before and i'm not to show it i find out dave before you buy it enjoy your produce to montauk or call letters in a possible to produce unexplored destructors. to say germany or you are. closer using the old dutch it's probably because of the triple this is not mentioned so it doesn't possess cool to see it nor long as zero tolerance. and that bad part on the part not survive it. that. tariff escalation is a new concept for canada 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 tyrus if it wanted to continue exports. or some pressure from the. significant amount of pressure. that if you don't. remember that. poor countries are going to lose the. south. you see. this is. what clear. in the past. like mr wood i see important as our trances. so when it comes to international trade it's europe first and germany first although we don't shout about it back to your ass

stance we just put 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 german 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 tomato are still going to do some of those just three year or fifty cents per hour and not pay i want a son i say how much. how much do you hear oh i know you're almost there when you

take one hour and i want you to miss one hour you make one. you know so you you get three your three year fifty say the hour your family or. the two or. i see the logic to it that the problem they just you tell it is almost like a slave enough i guess in sort to say. you three c. is earning next to nothing for harvesting e.u. subsidized tomatoes and in the process he is indirectly hurting the tomato industry in his home country. like scott j. took in the us and then transcon its knee in pitiful it three see in noosa is subject to the forces of international trite local farm workers union is demanding higher wages for these people to union official danielle like a valley is looking into it three c's case. but it ain't no started three c's last

employer paid him less than half the national minimum wage. in the 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 in. many of them live illegally in abandoned houses in the countryside so where they live in ghettos near towns. they go into. 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.

these are all the houses for people who for many. twenty dollars trying to drag the people to. get sick ghettos for migrant workers right in the middle of the. the european union. to me to get you. it received in its corporate twin 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. we have an italian homicide. in italy we saw an african farmer who is being treated essentially like slang use a lot less than italy's minimum wage harvesting tomatoes that are then exported to ghana has ruined the domestic tomato market then that makes sense as you know as much as was in kinds and you know unfortunately i think maybe ghana overestimated its own ability. it improved in the interim trade agreement that was in its own favor. those. trade. make look just as we did not seek a serious discussion on trade issues. we had 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 we can support visitors chancer agrees the chancellor sees it like i do. no because as those policies have to be reconsidered to improve trade relations and end the migration of refugees from africa to europe. prosperous africa is in the best interests of germany and europe you've now i'm not in the incision and i look at us do we simply cannot try to integrate hundreds of millions of people into europe. those who want 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 cuts in africa. europe fast china fast america fast. and trask. and in the u.s. sculpture took all wanted a better life they didn't get it major 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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