US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer at a finance committee hearing last year. The latest US tariff threats on Brazil and Argentina have raised a question: what other trade threats we thought were in the past might creep back into the frame? Photo: Bloomberg US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer at a finance committee hearing last year. The latest US tariff threats on Brazil and Argentina have raised a question: what other trade threats we thought were in the past might creep back into the frame? Photo: Bloomberg
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer at a finance committee hearing last year. The latest US tariff threats on Brazil and Argentina have raised a question: what other trade threats we thought were in the past might creep back into the frame? Photo: Bloomberg
Hannah Anderson
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Macroscope by Hannah Anderson

US tariff flip-flops and a neutered WTO will hit trade and business costs, and confidence, into 2020

  • The mercurial US trade policy and the lack of a platform for countries and businesses to adjucate trade complaints, with the WTO court in disarray, is undermining trade and business confidence, even as costs rise alongside tariffs

Hannah Anderson
Hannah Anderson

Updated: 6:26am, 14 Dec, 2019

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US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer at a finance committee hearing last year. The latest US tariff threats on Brazil and Argentina have raised a question: what other trade threats we thought were in the past might creep back into the frame? Photo: Bloomberg US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer at a finance committee hearing last year. The latest US tariff threats on Brazil and Argentina have raised a question: what other trade threats we thought were in the past might creep back into the frame? Photo: Bloomberg
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer at a finance committee hearing last year. The latest US tariff threats on Brazil and Argentina have raised a question: what other trade threats we thought were in the past might creep back into the frame? Photo: Bloomberg
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Hannah Anderson

Hannah Anderson

Hannah Anderson is a global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management. She is on the Global Market Insights Strategy team, based in Hong Kong. In this role, she is responsible for developing and communicating timely market and economic insights to retail and institutional clients across Asia Pacific, with a particular focus on China’s evolving financial system, global trade, and US-China relations.