这个框架能从很多方面解释当前围绕全球化的紧张氛围。其一是,美国中西部地区受冲击的制造业城镇——这些地方的大量低收入居民将选票投给了唐纳德•特朗普——亲身感受到了在全球价值链中迅速变得多余的滋味。(这种变化在很大程度上是由技术进步而非贸易导致的,但正如美国贸易代表迈克•弗罗曼(Mike Froman)喜欢说的那样,人们无法对技术进行投票。)
Second, it shows why modern trade deals, such as the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the US and EU, are centred on rules protecting patents and copyrights, and allowing foreign corporations to sue governments if they feel their investments are being expropriated. Multinationals are less concerned with goods tariffs, which are now generally low and belong to an earlier era of trade governance, than they are with trying to protect the specialist knowledge on which their global supply chains depend.
其二是,该框架展现了现代贸易协议——例如美国与欧盟之间仍在谈判的《跨大西洋贸易与投资伙伴关系协定》(Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)——为何把重点放在了保护专利和版权的规则,以及允许外国企业在认为自身投资被侵吞的情况下起诉政府的规则。比起目前总体处于较低水平、属于贸易管制时代之物的商品关税,跨国公司如今更关心的是保护自己的全球供应链所依存的专业知识。
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