both so they can plant crops and find food. floods and droughts will climate change become the main driver of mass migration you could not write any are going to use not if you want them probably more for them to come to. the conic exodus starts thirty s. on 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 non-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. there

we will have the gas. there you'll be doing it. the way it works it doesn't. this is nonsense ling trend in global trade and it comes at a time when more and more people are worried about their jobs or feel completely marginalized so it's all rich man's game. they're destroying america that's what they're doing. just jobs around here now. everything is minimum wage or little. this is you get scared when you hear jobs are at risk somewhere. it's a vicious circle he just can't get away from globalization and for. simply wrong. for many people. how our president trumps aggressive high state policies impacting on international trade and our trade practices any better.

it got it. all. soon given to hunger managing director of a german steel company says trump's america first trade policy doesn't make sense given toggles 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 the. 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 dick loans it doesn't for the so the americans are paying more to cover the cost of those terrorists themselves so it is on them which. is going over to father wrecked 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. isn't kevin dogger 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'm just saying it will 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 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. i think you can if tariffs are 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 so we're really concerned about it is not all shaun's either 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 terrorists were supposed to help the steel industry there 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 one 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 i want to my feet but

now three of its factories are on the verge of collapse like this one in town ohio where the chevrolet cruze his belt. she took used to welcome the concert assembly line he drives a chevrolet but not a cruise he prefers a power phone gas guzzling tomorrow. this is a twenty seventeen fiftieth anniversary camaro s.s. to assess convertible quad black edition so it's black black roof black interior and black wheels these cars don't exist you will find for twenty seven seasons for sale on the internet. but if they see a president from visited have high and demanded the general motors keep them open g.m. plans to close the plant anyway. the whole place is going to close and it's the skin to break everyone's heart because all these people like to do truthfully is to make

decent money and work hard and then 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 trumbull county ohio. was living the american dream and he believed that donald trump could do something to change the norms of free trade that so often destroy jobs. they did that we call in at the drive in restaurant when scott c. still lacks. the c.c. doesn't much money hand 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 but more on her 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 their jobs around here now. everything is minimum wage or

a little bump. and there is still in their person just can't live on that it's. impossible thirty bucks the arts of. ever work very well using arts that i've been doing all day already read. the eversley the narrative make my save money. scott sister is thinking about buying a new car a german car for the first time in my life to ever thought to buy another product besides general motors and she likes what i'm what is going on all the way going to outlets and they make us any more we are going to leave i have one around to heart and i say it's time i don't know all 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 u.s. market only well trained in the age of globalization pays no attention to

international borders but that's not what president trump simplistic catch phrases and punitive tyrants would have you believe. that. many ohio residents like scott a new 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 tax. tariffs and they want to impose these tariffs it actually kind of hurt the auto industry because still the price of still what so it cost g.m. to build it 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 comp labor costs. president trump 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 and we think that that's wrong and we think that that's not helping our cause here at all. so instead of america first it's jobs lost still trumps tyrus and trade wars remain popular with many voters the president recently claimed that imported german cars represent 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 u.s. presidents are trying to change american trade policies brian 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 that 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. trade or we have to remember that. the chances yes. 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 this situation worse. than 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 infrastructure in the former communist east the chemical production sector in the beautiful boy from region was wiped out by government subsidies helped to create a new solar technology industry there 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 or small for. 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 sancta 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 sneak found himself facing an uncertain future. this is what 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 and german minister of economics and technology at the time. was opposed to mall subsidies he preferred a free market approach yes it is. because his video here of a translator speaking in the bundestag and he's talking about whether the subsidies for the solar energy center should continue. so much or not.

i don't think there's been a record increase in the solar cell sector and eighty million customers and four million small to medium sized businesses are paying the price this sort of command economy policy is unacceptable here in europe and i'm sure that if you've been through this is it what do you think you 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 has come yet snit was demoted to a janitor's job at the factory. tariffs and subsidies seem to be

part of the cultural world of international trade and brass konetzni and probably feel like pieces on the chessboard of globalization. economist yes 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 and his campaign speeches without the 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 walls 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 garment 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 stopped by tomato market otu says the prices are set here on a daily basis. that someone is someone in the market who 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 east they can't compete with inexpensive tomato paste that's important 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 workers. well that. was definitely in part the competition was high but there's no message could be said his. choice must apply to bring your from your old life there to a metro from italy is have yourself advised by do it down commission of health laws that's it to live manufacturing in china i've little better. business model they're going to sell his arsenal everything that has.

gone his main agricultural exports his cocoa and is the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil. 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 has. to nine search the local markets for chocolate passing but couldn't find any we finally managed to track some down at this carriage the shortage of processed chocolate here comes as no surprise to a whose father was a coke i found. about produce clothes. which of course buy you have to make a special effort they're not that lucky chocolate ha liking gemini the way you produce zero amount of coke. is everywhere so how many. problem

in the hop is that chocolate before and i'm not to throw it out my fat i did before you died even though you produced a large amount of column letters in a possible to produce unexplored destructors. to say germany or you are. closer reason of all that it's probably because of the trip policies you've mentioned so it doesn't force us to. ignore long as zero tolerance. and bad not survive it. that. tariff escalation is a new concept for. for years the country was allowed to protect itself against cheap agricultural imports and exports its own farm products duty frame. but in recent free trade agreements the e.u.

ordered ghana to drop its tyrants if it wanted to continue exports. some pressure from the. significant amount of pressure. that if you don't. remember. poor countries are going to lose the. this is a. policy work. in the past. like mr wood i see what mr trump says. 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 poke pressure on our less powerful

trading partners. i head back to europe via italy. but i've come to the southern province of where tomatoes are grown during the 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 and now he's stuck here. i ask him what he earns picking tomatoes from the mobs are still going to do so much goes just do your all fifty cent per hour and not pay i want a son i say how much. how much do you hear oh i almost gave in you take one hour

one hour to miss one hour you make one. you know so you you get three your three year fifty. they are your family are you on the top. i said they wanted to work their problem they just you tell it it's almost like it's living i guess in store to see. you three see is earning next to nothing harvesting the 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 u.s. some time trask on its knee in bitter val's it three c. in new south is subject to the forces of international trade the local farm workers union is demanding higher wages for these people union official daniel agger cornélie is looking into

a three c's case. for it yeah ok notes that edriss last employer paid him less than half the national minimum wage. and there was fear. was for some other 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 a bit in. many of them live illegally in abandoned houses in the countryside that. they live in ghettos near towns. they go into. i want to see where a tree see lives so i drive him home to an abandoned military airfield. migrant workers leave in barracks and containers set up on what used to be the runway.

and you saw all the houses for people there from anywhere from. twenty or trying to drag the people. it's a ghetto for migrant workers right in the middle of. the european union. to simply accept. it as a new. eatery see in noosa is caught between 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 continue 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're gonna try and i was. in italy we saw african farmers being treated essentially like slaves and a lot less than italy's minimum wage harvesting tomatoes that are then exported to ghana has ruined the domestic tomato market and so that makes sense as you know was not this was in. and. unfortunately i think maybe ghana overestimated its own ability. it improved an interim trade agreement that was in its own favor. those. trade. they took those clubs 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 really just chance or agrees to the chancellor sees it like i do. noko says those policies have to be reconsidered to improve trade relations and end the migration of refugees from africa to europe. was full of egos a prosperous africa is in the best interests of germany and europe you've got not only incision in the us do we simply cannot try to integrate hundreds of millions of people into europe. those who move to me 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. europe first china first america fast you can receive. and in the us 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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