{"id":16987,"date":"2018-06-27T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=16987"},"modified":"2018-06-27T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:09:12","slug":"commentary-seeing-president-trump-in-a-pleasing-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-seeing-president-trump-in-a-pleasing-light\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Seeing President Trump in a pleasing light"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/b><\/p>\n

(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organisation of American States.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)<\/i><\/p>

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U.S. President Donald Trump did not sign \u201cThe Charlevoix G7 Summit Communique\u201d in Canada in early June.\u00a0\u00a0In not doing so, he demonstrated doubts about the Group in which the U.S. participates with Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the Presidency of the European Union (EU).\u00a0\u00a0The presence of the EU, already represented by Britain, France, Germany and Italy, gives the EU an oversize and unwarranted voice.<\/p>

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From a developing countries\u2019 perspective, President Trump is right to be dubious about the G7\u2019s authority in the world and the actions that they collectively promote.<\/p>\n

Part of his scepticism was evident even before the G7 meeting began when he publicly called for the inclusion of Russia.\u00a0\u00a0He said: \u201cYou know, whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run and the G7, which used to be the G8, they threw Russia out, they can let Russia come back in, because we should have Russia at the negotiating table.\u201d<\/p>

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There is compelling good sense in President Trump\u2019s call for the inclusion of Russia in bargaining on issues that are global in their scope.<\/p>\n

While EU countries wish to punish Russia for events in Ukraine over Crimea, excluding it from major discussions does not encourage dialogue and diplomacy to address concerns over Crimea.\u00a0\u00a0And, it certainly does nothing to facilitate international cooperation on crucial matters that threaten global peace and stability.<\/p>

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For decades, the G7 has dictated global economic, finance and trade rules even as the importance of many of its members has long since dwindled, and other countries such as China, India and Brazil have overtaken them.<\/p>

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Jim O\u2019Neill, who assumes the Chairmanship of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in July, recently observed that: \u201cThe G7 still comprises the seven Western democracies with the largest economies, but barely so. At this point, Canada\u2019s economy is not much bigger than Australia\u2019s, and Italy\u2019s is only slightly bigger than Spain\u2019s. The G7 is an artefact of a bygone era\u201d.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill points out that China\u2019s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is projected to overtake the entire eurozone this year; India\u2019s GDP is already larger than Italy\u2019s, and Brazil is not far behind.\u00a0\u00a0Eighty-five per cent of the increase in world GDP (in U.S. dollars) since 2010 has come from the U.S. and China, and nearly 50% from China alone. Another 6% has come from India, while the dollar value of the Japanese and EU economies has declined.<\/p>\n

Despite all this, the G7 has held on to a dominant policy-making role (only because of U.S. membership) without meaningful consultation with developing countries that are affected by them.\u00a0\u00a0Certainly, the G7 has invited selected developing countries to meetings, but their participation has been window-dressing at best; no significant change in thinking or policy has resulted from their appearance.<\/p>\n

At the Canada meeting, President Trump was deeply concerned about the balance of trade deficit which the U.S. suffers with many countries of the world, including all the other G7 members; he is also concerned with high tariffs placed on U.S. exports by these countries.<\/p>\n

Caribbean countries don\u2019t have high tariffs on imported U.S. goods and, with one exception, they are among the few countries in the world with which the U.S. enjoys an annual trade surplus that gives it revenues and employment.\u00a0\u00a0Last year the U.S trade surplus with the Caribbean was more than U.S.$6 billion.<\/p>\n

On the wider trade scene, Caribbean countries were coerced, individually, in October 2008 by the European Commission to sign an Economic Partnership Agreement with the 28 EU countries collectively.\u00a0\u00a0The disadvantage of what is essentially an uneven trade arrangement between Caribbean mice and the EU elephant, was occasioned by a threat by Peter Mandelson, the EU Commissioner at the time, to sign or else face the imposition of unfavourable treatment for Caribbean goods.<\/p>\n

With no regard to historical European exploitation and underdevelopment of the region, Mandelson records in his biography that he regarded the Caribbean\u2019s capitulation to his threat as the only bright spot in his \u201clack of progress\u201d in re-negotiating the trade arrangements between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific group for which the latter had fought hard.<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s shaking-up of the G7 should be generally welcomed.\u00a0\u00a0His desire to include Russia at the table of global negotiation should now move to include other more relevant and significant countries.<\/p>\n

There is another vital area to which the Caribbean should hope he turns attention.\u00a0\u00a0And, that is what is happening with financial services globally.<\/p>\n

The G7 created the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which set rules and regulations that are imposed on the rest of the world.\u00a0\u00a0Those rules and regulations have gone far beyond their original intention to fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism.\u00a0\u00a0They have succeeded in crippling, if not emasculating, the financial services industry in many developing countries, including the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

The OECD and EU\u2019s backlisting of countries as \u201ctax havens\u201d bear much of the blame for the policies of major international banks to \u2018de-risk\u2019 and withdraw correspondent banking relationships from banks in the Caribbean that dim the region\u2019s economic prospects.<\/p>\n

On\u00a0May 15th<\/span><\/span>, the EU declared that it would put the U.S. on a blacklist if, by June 2019, it does not agree to provide details of bank accounts held by foreigners.\u00a0\u00a0The EU also said that it would investigate whether tax laws, introduced last year by the Trump administration and approved by the U.S. Congress, makes the U.S. \u201ca tax haven\u201d.<\/p>\n

President Trump is most unlikely to tolerate any actions by the EU that is injurious to the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0Serious retaliation should be expected.<\/p>\n

If the U.S. President shakes-up the unfair control of global rule-making and imposition of financial and tax rules as he has done over trade, there may be an inkling of light for Caribbean countries at the end of a long tunnel in which they have been trapped for two decades.<\/p>\n

President Trump would be seen by many in the Caribbean in a more benign and pleasing light.<\/p>\n

Responses and previous commentaries:\u00a0www.sirronaldsanders.com<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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