US Trade Barriers and Globalization

Traditional international trade involves a complex system of trade barriers to ensure the protection of domestic industry and its workers interests. The trade impediments and subsidies include protective tariffs, import quotas, non-tariff barriers i.e. licensing, and export subsidies. Originally, a country’s economy acted independently of other nations. The growing trend ever since the establishment of GATT in 1947 is globalization. In globalization, a country acts as a part of a free trading community consisting …

…short term trade solutions. In the long run, it is not an efficient means of international trade. Consumers are forced to pay for a cost benefiting an industry and not themselves. In response to a trade order, an effected country may put up trade barriers to offset those of another country. The end result is a lose-lose situation for both countries. Free trade and globalization are the only effective means to generating economic increase worldwide.