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Each one of the three kinds of trade agreements is evenly significant to the United States. First, a consensual understanding is a trade agreement between two countries (Zeng 2012). For instance, when the United States and China arrived at a trade agreement (Zeng 2012). A consensual trade agreement is vital to the United States because it helps individuals operate in distinct businesses that engage the two countries. For instance, the United States prohibited Huawei from working here, several individuals in the United States and China suffered (Campion 2020). Thus, there are individuals in both countries that lost their occupations. A bilateral trade agreement would have protected such disciplines and warranted that the salary and profits of thousands of individuals are guarded (Campion 2020).

A regional trade agreement is a commercial agreement that engages nations in a particular area (Labonté, Gleeson and McNamara 2020). An exceptional illustration of a regional trade agreement is the U.S. – Canada – Mexico agreement that superseded NAFTA (North Atlantic Trade Agreement). This trade agreement permits individuals from both nations to transfer and exchange supplies, commodities. It produces among the three countries without forfeiting unnecessary tariffs and tolls that individuals from other countries would have to lose (Labonté, Gleeson and McNamara 2020). Such profits are vital to the U.S. because it permits American manufacturers to multiply their markets further than the borders of the United States.

An international trade agreement is an understanding that implicates the majority, if not all, nations worldwide. An example of a global trade agreement is the World Trade Organization Agreement. The World Trade Organization establishes commerce and business strategies that nations worldwide follow to ensure that marketing and business

are directed and overseen effortlessly and efficiently (Zeng 2012). Suppose the World Trade Organization did not exist. In that case, many nations may begin seizing the benefit of their financial authority and influence to obtain additional power when negotiating and exchanging with other countries. Nevertheless, the World Trade Organization is inexistent to make sure that there is impartiality and fairmindedness. This objectivity likewise clearly impacts the United States.

Free trade is as significant as a democracy to the wellbeing of world stability; free trade is essential (Mead 2021). It has accomplished much more than all of the global foreign relief bureaucrats to enhance living norms and means and amplify chances for individuals in developing markets. In contributing to poor and productive countries a mutual interest in peacetime and solidity of the international structure, free trade achieves greater than NGOs and advocates to endorse peace (Mead 2021). The reason for free trade is presently obsolete, and forming a trade outline for the 21st century will be difficult (Mead 2021). Yet, international wealth, American dominance, and world peace continue to be reliant on free trade. The dangers of the global trade structure ought to concern each of us.

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References

Campion, Andrew Stephen. "From CNOOC to Huawei: Securitization, the China threat, and critical infrastructure." Asian Journal of Political Science, 2020: 47-66.

Labonté, Ronald, Deborah Gleeson, and Courtney L. McNamara. "USMCA 2.0: a few improvements but far from "healthy" trade treaty." May 06, 2020: 40-43.

Mead, Walter Russell. "Global Free Trade Is in Crisis." WSJ. November 19, 2021. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-free-trade-system-is-in-crisis-organization-meeting-omicron-tariffs-sanctions-11638220676?st=chy6wowfu3cec6g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink (accessed November 30, 2021).

Zeng, Ka. "high Stakes: United States- China trade disputes under the World Trade Organization." International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2012 : 33-63.

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The United States is currently the leader of a global economic system of the post-WWII world. Through its leadership the U.S. helped to establish the Bretton Woods System that lifted countless nations out of poverty through loans and grants for building essential infrastructure. One of the primary institutions of the system, the World Trade Organization (WTO), currently plays a crucial role in solving trade disputes.[1] Under the globalized economic system, it is  crucial for the United States, as the sole hegemon in the current unipolar order, to establish trade relations to ensure its economic prosperity With the resurgence of Russia, growth of China, and the creation of the European Union, these state entities pose themselves as potential economic rivals to the United States. In the case of Russia and China, potential military adversaries.[2] As the United States’ economic primacy is being challenged on the global stage, it is perhaps time to turn inwards in the pursuit of beneficial trade agreements for its best national interest.

Under these conditions, bilateral trade agreements may prove to be a viable solution. But this is also not enough with the adversarial relationships between Russia and China as well other global commitments stretching the capabilities of the U.S. to exert its power economically. Regional trade agreements have uneven level of acceptance in the American mindset, especially with President Trump’s antagonistic views of NAFTA and TPP as some of the worst in U.S. history.[3] However, regional trade agreements may have its advantages for the United States under current circumstances. The new NAFTA (USMCA) agreements have proven itself to be a viable blueprint for future regional trade agreements by equalizing the trade imbalances between parties and creating a free trade zone through North Americas among the three member states.[4] U.S. policymakers should be more ambitious in this regard and expand NAFTA or create an all new agreement with a wider scope. It would encompass an even closer equal relationship of all parties involved. Furthermore, members should not be sought solely on the North American continent but should bring into the fold South American members as well as Australia and New Zealand. Under this type of agreement member states voluntarily commit themselves to economic development and stability of its fellow members.[5] Another benefit to the agreement would be to create a trans-Pacific-Americana free trade zone between members through removal of tariff barriers that helps drive down production expenditures and costs to the consumer. Regional agreements as such also has a geopolitical significance as it links the two American continents along with pacific western nations of Australia and New Zealand to close economic ties that foster growth and organically creates an alliance structure based on common interest and mutual respect centered on shared western culture.[6] Its prospects provide a possible regional agreement option to counterbalance any loses economically the United States might suffer on the global stage.

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Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011.

Summer by-Murray, Robert. “Trump, Canada and NAFTA: Trading Protection or Protecting Trade?” The Round Table 106, no. 2 (2017): 217–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2017.1299463.

“United States–Mexico–Canada Trade Fact Sheet Strengthening North American Trade in Agriculture.” United States Trade Representative. Accessed December 3, 2021. https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement/fact-sheets/strengthening.