The U.S. economy will be hit many times harder than the rest of the world by an escalating global trade war.
Soren Skou, who runs the world’s biggest shipping company from Copenhagen, said the fallout of the current protectionist wave “could easily end up being bigger in the U.S.” Tariffs could slow global annual trade growth by 0.1 to 0.3 percent, though for the U.S. the effect could be “perhaps 3 or 4 percent,” he said . “And that would definitely not be good.”
文本选自
:Bloomberg(彭博)
作者
:Christian Wienberg
原文标题
:Tariffs Will Hurt U.S. More Than Rest of World, Maersk Says
原文发布时间
:19 August 2018