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1Peter Arkel: When will the follow-up documentary be published about the effects of slashing your expenses in to half or even one-third? That is the other half of the medal which is not discussed in this documentary, but will for sure give a more nuanced view on the topic of free trade. As a westener I could easily switch to lower salary jobs if my expenses would be lowered by 50%, so in itsself that is not an issue. So what is the underlaying issue? The lack of opportunity to switch (jobs), the lack of capital to invest in productivity or something else?
2Lawney Malbrough: Free trade is a myth. As long as wealthy businesses have the means to buy poilticinas there will never really be free trade. Ther'es no advantage for us not to put tarrifs on thier products if they continue to put tarrifs on our products. They're protecting their peole livlyhood ans we're getting screwed! It's businessmen who cause this to happen. They don't care if we get screwed as long as they make more profits. Foreign government know just as ours does that if you want a better conomy and richer nationg you need to help your people get richer. Our governemtn has given up on making th epeole richer. They only work for big busness now. We the peole are being screwed over by the very people we elcted to public office. I beleive i prtectionism as much as china does because we need t keep our peole employed and eanring money. I would even go farther than tarrifs! I would go as far as to ban certain items from foreign importation. We cna afford to buy products made in America and we should be doing that. Unfortunalety you can't find such products anymore.
3medviation: It's a contradiction of capitalism.
4hanel g: A Victim of their own medicine i would say. The idea started from British and American. Free trade provides no protection to local market. Consumer preference changes to buying imported products and with better value thus killing the country slowly and making self sustainable development impossible.
5Suresh Kumar: Productivity from agricultural sector in develop countries far better than developing countries. So prices would be much affordable than from developing countries. The governments need to address the lags of development rather than Institute protective tariffs and other unnecessary measures that hinder free trade.
6sanjuansteve: Capitalism (and fear and greed), like "Nationalism, is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
7Js lang: Don't import. No one forces you to. And no one forces you to move factories oversea. Blame your own greedy corporations.
8Patz13: Tariffs should at least cover the cost of the US navy and air force who keep the high seas safe from pirates. International trade is subsidized unless those costs are recovered...and they have not been. Also, imports put domestic workers out of jobs. Btw, U.S. tariffs are much lower than other nations' tariffs. We are just catching up to their level.
9Steve: I'm convinced that some protectionism is good for the people of a country. Asia companies will focus more on getting products to their own countries rather than trying to sell to the rich West.
10Holybail Jung: Your view is similiar to that of u -s. American first, so should the german for germany first. It's a one track mind of blaming other countries for own woes. If getmany can do some work to imorove lives of africa, then it seems to have two way balance. On other hand the u-s looted the resources of an african countries without the responsility to help in growing that country, then it's an inbalance. Inbalance is about dignity, nationsl pride, development, jobs, skill and prospect for a better future. So isolation or rather protectinism is not forward looking, when every party focus on domestic interest. American congress is no difference, trump is no super deal maker! The solution: you win, we win together. Drop the total full spectrum approach of i win, you lose because there eill be no agreement on anything. Drop also the negative bragga-nomics of eazy trade war, or sure to win mindset because others must die for you to stay alife. Books like death by xxxx country is contributing no constructive means to more quiet vibrant lives than past, more worries and pains for aching body thsn ever.
11David: I find this documentary a bit... simplistic... Anyway, I'm in favor of open market.
12GaborBartal: 18:20 Buys a $40,000 Volvo, buys few dollar everyday items that make the American production company some cents on it and goes to tell the world about it. Yay hypocrite. Or just didn't think it through, the poor lady
13zuldo: Because the EU subsidies agriculture by 60 bn euro? they told ya in the video.
14Foomanlol: Funny how European countries complain about Chinese imports and then they go an flood African markets. Typical hypocrites.
15Max Parker: HUY PHAM like he said made in China
16Saint Joseph: Poor African countries... When they try to stand against these mofos and rejects that kinda deals, they send some "toyota" pick ups and suddenly a terror organisation appears out of nowhere or a general schemes coup and hangs politicians. What a crazy world we living in.
17Kevin Alex Mass: DW TEAM THAT MAKES THESE DOCUMENTARIES WILL FOREVER BE BLESSED AND RESPECTED.. SUCH A POSITIVE CONTENT.. THIS CHANNEL DESERVES 30MIL SUBSCRIBERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE WORK.. HOW CAN I AT LEAST CONTRIBUTE? DO YOU HAVE A PATREAON ACCOUNT?
18Don Vito Tan: This is a very good documentary. It shows the dark side of free trade and its effects. We need to spread this information so that others will understand. Congratulation, a job well done
19Kee Ppe: everyone killing America lol
20Alberto Scagliarini: A promise from a merchant is like a gift from a charlatan.
21Theodoro Seidler: I love german culture, tradition, food, the language... Being of german descent, it was a dream living there. But after spending time in the country it became apparent how the government engineers the economy and the society and that bothers me a lot. The government is just too big at 55% GDP and taxes are extorting. Made me feel sorry for the people I saw that actually work. But everyone I met seemed pretty happy paying that much in taxes in order to have "a small difference" in wealth between rich and poor. The "Fair Trade" promoting protectionism means no Uber, little AirB&B and many other shortcomings. It would be MUCH better off getting rid of at least half of that government overweight and cutting taxes drastically. But that is hard in any circumstance. In the documentary, when they say "protectionism" protects jobs it really means protects "tax revenue" so we can keep a big government.
22Valkyrie Sardo: Lies. Trump is NOT an isolationist. He merely wants a fair deal with trading partners, not the dirty end of the stick. The USA is not a charity organization.
23hello hun: Cameroon can't compete in the world of agriculture when the are 100 % hand labor produced. Mechanized AG is now the rule.
24Alexandru Simion: There is also the consumer in this equation. Why should we pay more for a bike just because is made in our country? If China subsidies bike building it also means that China is paying money for us to buy cheaper bikes.
25Cardboard Tenshi: 36:08 what an adorable old lady! Reminds me of my aunt.
26The Hackin: 10% richest hold 90% economy of the world and how they run IMF :-)
27thehALomolov2: The African lady complaining about Europeans... It's not the Europeans harming your market. It's your neighbours choosing cheaper options over locals, if no one bought their products, the Europeans actions wouldn't be doing anything.
28Andrew Eisenhawer: So many falsehoods propagated by this piece. How can a documentary on trade and protectionism avoid talking about the jobs killed by protectionism? Or simply ignore current account balances? Or the much higher amount of goods money can buy with free trade, ESPECIALLY if a foreign government subsidizes their production? I can see opening markets slowly, but there is no economic argument for keeping them closed. I country x makes cars for $1 and bikes for $0.50, it still benefits from trading with a country that makes cars for $100 and bikes for $25. Both countries benefit. Look up comparative advantage if you don't see how. The U.S. built its worldwide empire and a level of wealth the world has never seen while running a "trade deficit" almost all that time. The drop in manufacturing jobs over the last few decades is something that all countries should ASPIRE to - 85% from automation and 15% from shifting trade. That 15% helped lift much of the world's population out of abject poverty, while also benefiting the U.S.
29Bobby: Did you just say that free trade causes immigration?
30shuai peng: Imagine if all investors left this market what will they do then.
31s3xyScorp: Listen to Ronald Reagans speach on Free trade in 88 theres vid on YT
32MrApotamus: Lives in 4,000 sq.ft. house, with just 2 people. Claims she buys recycled goods because she cares about the environment.(which she likely learned when she flew 1st class to a two day conference in Micronesia) Doesn't support America First Trump, but claims to care if things were made in the USA. Why? Because virtue signaling is the most important thing to these hypocrites that really, selfishly only care about themselves, due to THEM specifically getting screwed over somehow, or being shamed by other Liberals with similar experiences. If it doesn't negatively effect these people directly, or gain them social status points with other Leftist hypocrites, it means nothing. Really, the very worst kind of person.
33adamshattuck1985: those damn nationalist cameroons! whats all this protectionist talk?
34Unreliable Narrator 66: The streets of China are increasingly paved with German and American brand cars, it's the largest market and where these Western companies make their profits.
35MaximGhost: No such thing as free trade. "Fair trade" is as close as you can get.
36ALPHA FOX: all this time people make fun of China.
37KANG MONSAI: Parker's pen is American
38David Heafield: Excellent clearly explained documentary,
39Firstpo jkh: \any country that opposes free trade is a country that can't keep up with capitilism. \either do or die. simple. \just because your citizens don't wana work for low wages which drives down prices doesn't mean other people won't do it in other countries. tarrifs are an illegal tax. that this documentary supports. it doesn't help anyone except make a few rich people even richer. it doesn't create more jobs. just increases the prices of goods for the same amount of labour. if anything it will cut the job force because of the increased illegal tax. free trade is the only way. anything else is foolish.
40Donald Grant: This is free trade in a nut shell. We give you our lucrative manufacturing jobs and put our people out of work and you send us cheap crap. We will run up a national debt and then leave the country with the debt and move some where else to ruin.
41Aubrey Pico: Does anybody still think Trump is a clueless racist bigot? if so Why?
42Kofi Annan: It is critically important to make Fiji and Voss waters available at every 7/11 in Iowa and Idaho. That is Job#1 for America's corporate elite. Stop complaining. Get back to work.
43Roger K: manutor they show how if has an impact on everyone. And the only ones bennefitting are shareholders. You are the one that is narrowminded sadly.
44Aaron: I would buy American. If all the products weren't so shitty..
45Akim S: The best documentary video i've ever seen. Insightful and unbiased
46Niko Lassila: Non-trade has only one definition I take your money, no matter what.
47Joe Ciliberto: This is great. So good that it has interrupted the deeply technical response I am writing in another computer while I listen. I can tell that I will have to listen to this video several times to comment with the justice it deserves.
48DANTHETUBEMAN: if everyone fed them selves in every 50 mile region with there own good natural food production a lot of the other problems would solve them selves. i would like to see no market protections after that. let the chips fall where they may and work them selves out.
49Milton Waddams: Are you talking about EU protectionist fruit products that are NOT part of free trade and taste like shit? Well, you probably don't think before you type, so never mind.
50JohnRinNoHo: Free trade is beneficial to both the buyer and seller, otherwise it would not occur.
51kcgunesq: So if we are to believe this video, Europeans using modern machinery designed to produce a very high volume of vegetable goods are more cost effective than people who hand dig and cultivate each vegetable. Whodathunk it?
52DW Documentary: Hi Barry M, is this really a question?
53Suloke Mathai: Interesting program. Just wanted to point out that your EU map doesn't include Cyprus as its part!!
54abshir2010: Freedom of trade is essential, having products at your market is a great thing for all. Competition is essential for us, protectionism will allow few companies who will abuse the consumers and higher the prices if they decide so. Long live free trade for eternity because it benefits the consumers. Companies must be competitive, not trying to boycott the consumers for their own interest protectionism means boycotting the consumers choice.
55Samme Samme-nlar: So do they really open up every container and it's content ?. Crazy work!
56lance ringquist: "It took decades to build up domestic industry. It would take decades to restore it. We would have to rigidly protectionize our economy in order to do so . . . sector by sector by sector maybe. It would be impossible instantly. But it would be possible over decades starting whenever the near-unanimous decision to do so is made by an unstoppable super-majority of citizens. If we DON’T re-industrialize-for-domestic-use, then we should prepare to live the way millions of murdered mill-town citizens are already living, on despair and drugs till they die quickly."
57Winfred Gyebi: So Trump was right after all ?
58Alan C: Greediness is the root of Capitalism, if free trade is not allowed, wouldn't greedy people smuggle the cheaper and better goods in! Marxism or Communism wouldn't work, but there is draw back in Capitalism! The problem is not with free trade, the problem is with Capitalism!!!
59Jat Senyum: When capitalism didn't favor you then its not fair..like with the UN vote .
60John Spurlock: So you're a hypocrite you need to start supporting Trump the only hope for the country is protectionism and not allow any Imports in here that drains jobs or cash if they want us to buy their bicycle we pay them in barbecue beef no money
61domitry jobby: long live free trade
62Brian Belgique: It's all good if you can force everyone else to pay more for the product you provide without any chance of anyone competing with you, eh? ;) The claims that protectionism lead to WW2 or that it made germany an industrial power are quite laughable. None of this works the way the creators of this faulty documentary purport.
63RJSoftware2000: this excludes food, LOL...!!!
64hot rod daddy: what they said about the german and u.s. economies during the stock martket crash and the depression is false.!germany was recovering after ww1..after the stock market crash the u.s. re-patriotized billions of dollars from germany ,which forced them into a depression along with the u.s.. because of the shylocks and thieves in the banks and u.s. stock market the extremists gained power after the citizens had seen what the pattern they have now and what they had then is set up to produce...henry ford was a huge success and was 1 of the highest paying companies at the time because of the harsh stance he took on not dealing with the corrupt system.all his employees had homes cars everything they needed because he refused to bow down to the bankers and stock market.
65Lovell He: Trump is a genius who knows how to deal with this loophole.
66Angie Zhu: Too foolish that you really think so
67Dream A: LOL. You state that there is no bargaining: money talks. THAT IS BARGAINING. WHAT DO YOU THINK BARGAINING POWER IS. wow. Bargaining power includes information and money. It is the very reason why richer countries screw poorer countries and poorer countries accept it. Of course, simply understanding that a country has an upper hand in a situation does not actually equalize the two. In real life that is. Second, just because economics studies psychological effects of decision making does not mean that people implement those considerations into their decision making. That's the difference between theory and real life. You don't know the difference between the two.
68perry reasch: you will not buy only USA products .. maybe assembled here ??/
69John Smith: China? People working as slaves and living in  factory dorms making $5 a day is far from a success story.
70Nate G: The Chinese and other poor peoples are slaves to our corruption and greed' any billionaires want to fund an industrial revolution? Didn't think so..
71Mohammed 0: Ok
72Devesh Saxena: The people who control the policies and the forces of market care a shit about anything till they are getting cuts in the names of taxes in just every step and source and the resultant expenditure to buy the next taxed things. The game is not about products any more, its about the people who produce and consume contributing to taxes. And the world is not short of them. Once the loot is over at one place, let them die . We move on to next human farms desirous of achieving the HUMAN dream.
73Bob George Malem: And now they are blaming United States of America, when in fact UK (to be specific; the Khazarians) are in control of the US through infrastructure (British Wall Street), The UK king got mad at the American cowboys because they pushed them out of a property the UK king thought he owned. Now they are back with vengeance.
74sharon aviet: Please stop buying Chinese goods and products. Protect your country by buying goods from your own country, It is bad enough that the Chinese are now immigrating all over the world, your grandchildren will soon have slant eyes, is that not enough, soon they will have your job and your money. There are so many of them that all you buy and are served is from CHINA. Wake up Australia and the world. Protect Trade and Immigration B Bus & marketing. 38A Oat Street. East Vic Park, 6150
75Kessy: well you ignore that in those third world countries the cost of production for the local manufactures is higher than it is for the importers because of the countries taxes and regulations that kill production. Its not free trade screwing third world manufacturers its their taxes and regulations and the cost of production.
76earth meeks: Free Trickery
77Anak Rajin: It seems that developed countries make developing countries to be free market, while the developed countries can do whatever they want including protecting their markets from the developing ones. What a...
78akira j: hahaha lol japan and the eu got now free trade hahahaha lol go trump let your peeps pay more for there stuff good job now you need e bigger pocket for all the money you will make well your familly hahahahaha lol americans
79Docholland45: Hey look. All of our jobs!
80anderson: Now this documentary is going too far it's true subsidies are unfair but they're also costly. It's like me giving everybody in the world $20 towards a given product. Normally you only do that but the explicit objective of obtaining control of that product so that you can charge them $50 more later on or you said control as a means to take other towards power and Advantage over your dependents. China for example is using its New Market power as a means of allowing their communist overlords to militarily taking political control of other people's territory and resources. This is ultimately used as a leverage to allow them to take more control. Camaru is benefiting from cheap onions from the European Union paid for by Europeans. Admittedly it's a kind of subsidy institued as a form of charity for the 'poor'. So that they can eat lots of good food. But this is admittedly highly destructive to all economies and most particularly destructive to developing economies just like all other forms of charity. A country cannot build the infrastructure to feed itself if it's getting its food for free. But it is getting its food for free and if it can reliably continue to get such food then it could build a business doing something else. Unfortunately it cannot reliably obtain such food. And African seem to lack eyther the creativity, education, or infrastructure produce something else about it value that the majority of the population is inclined buy. Food is the very first industry because people need it and will find ways to earn it.
81AEOOOON: Yep, when you think of protectionism just have a look at how well Argentina is doing...
82Chris Chapman: True free trade is the optimal way of everyone getting rich. Inject bad government like the EU and massive distortions happen..
83Jhoki C: Many African farmers &industries are not offered subsidy unlike Europe and USA. Free trade kills the Africa/poorer countries' farmers and industries.
84Nidhogg: 17:34 19:02 why that awkward zooming on her? xD
85Serfdomftw: There's a place in china called "USA" so be careful xD
86DAT TAPE: volvo is a commie car. boycott
87Merika Ramocan: The Coalition for a Prosperous America is the nation's premier nonprofit organization working at the intersection of trade, jobs, tax and economic growth. We are a bipartisan coalition of farmers & ranchers, manufacturers and labor groups working for a national strategy to eliminate the trade deficit, create good paying jobs and deliver broadly shared prosperity to America. To help please click here https://www.prosperousamerica.org/ or search Coalaition for a Prosperous America
88mike watters: its a dog eat dog world, but the koreans like to have their dog and eat it
89Mamoun Mam: Hypocrisy
90MrFourkinghell: Interesting doco. What it proves is that the EU is a self serving farce.
91John Chalinder: Those who control global resources and the goods made from them, control society. This is how the Illuminati and the global banking industry control everybody. Modern slaves are not in chains; they're in debt. If you owe money; you're not a free citizen, you are a slave. You are doing the majority of the labor for minimal pay; while those who employ you are making top dollar for keeping YOUR nose to the grindstone.
92Wisepersonsay: I never can get it: If a nation is self-sufficient, why does it need to trade? Isn't it possible to make each country self-sufficient by transfer of skills and know-hows? Why goods and services are the only products of trade? No wonder the imbalance of trade persists. Japan thrived tremendously economically and culturally without international trade during the Tokugawa Period (260 years from 15c to 17c - total isolation). But the US forced Japan to trade with the military force led by Commodore Perry in the mid 17 c.. From then on, the unprecedent wars and trade wars started.
93me myself: everything possible should be produced and consumed locally​ like it has been for most of human history. We produce too much shit that nobody needs today and poison and destroy the environment.
94Joke van der Have: Why should the VS pay more tariffs than the EU or China?
95Vt Carols: Jobs have been destroyed in the UK since being a member of the EU , most of our manufacturing having moved to Germany, and the restriction on our agriculture and fishing industries by the EU having become so cumbersome that it has degraded what were once industries to be proud of. The situation has recently become worse since businesses fired their UK workers and hired cheap labour from E Europe
96Thomas Busse: so, promote birth control.
97DW Documentary: Hi Kitty, you´re right'! Thansk for carefully listening!
98Sidtube10: +fred gillespie LOL...yes indeed, this is one of the shortcomings of so called free trade - which is anything but free!
99Dean Ford: MADE IN CHINA is a global brand. I'm not complaining, all of this inter-fighting is what is retarding us as a species.
100Ragnald Maxwell: 97% of the products we have are all from others places, like China, Singapore, Asia and the Dominion Republic.
101Patricia Diaz: There is nothing free about "free trade". Someone has to pay and it is always the Poor.
102John Gordon: Has camaroon used the fact that their product, not only tastes better than the imports but does not contain the same nutrients, and is inferior to the home grown products.
103run4eva: Antonio Fenix just like the eu muscled in on the UK fishing area
104Siqi Lin: Like most other international organizations in Geneva, WTO is corrupted
105Hired Goon: Thank you for this documentary. Very educative!
106Roger K: D Sun you need some context and indepth analasys in your life.
107Tom in Puerto Rico: What an ignorant 'documentalry'. Why not try to learn basic economics from experts like Sowell or Walter Williams? Instead clueless narrators discuss a subject they don't remotely understand.
108Twin Turbine: In the simplest terms, tariffs protect local low skilled jobs, but harm consumers. Under high tariffs, there are often many low skilled manufacturing jobs, run by outdated oligopolies with high prices of consumer goods. With low tariffs, you mainly have fewer high skilled, services jobs with low job security, and cheap consumer goods. It's clear which option the developed world chooses, as it prefers to have a pool of developing world slave labour make their products for them cheaply. People talk big, and call for an end to the system, but I doubt a single reader of this comment would want their kids working in a bike factory like you saw in 5:55. You'll pay a fortune to put them through university to get a job in the service sector. But even if you did (for some reason) magically moving the manufacturing back 'home' would quadruple the prices, and what of the Chinese factory workers? Aren't they human? What's your solution for them? Starve? The dismissal of distant workers who have the same value as you is poison. But even with tariffs, double the prices of consumer goods and food, then see what happens: With to high tariffs, producers tend to be cautious with capital investment as they see it as a temporary market distortion, but consumer goods jump in price, hence the cost of living increases, which harms consumer confidence and jobs (of all kinds) goes down. Low prices of consumer goods are all working class people have, especially with rents as high as it is (but no one complains about low interest rates, zoning deregulation, property developers or local landlords. No, you have to beat up Johnny Foreigner... Surprise, surprise). The only other option you're left with is global Democratic Socialism, but instead of revolution, you're watching this video... I good video, I grant you, but it shows how little people really care. Either way, prices in the PRC are getting too high, and in ten years, people will be talking about the growth of mind-numbing factory work in Vietnam, India, Kenya or Indonesia, that people there, terrified of poverty, will be happy to take. Meanwhile fat (probably fatter) Westerners, who wouldn't touch such work with a ten foot pole (they would rather import labour from Mexico, or Africa, then demonise them), will *still* bemoan how things just aren't like they were in the good old days of double digit unemployment, the iron curtain, armed borders criss-crossing Europe, Soviet repression and Mutually Assured Destruction.
109Milton Waddams: Regarding Cameroon. Of course they cannot compete if they grow with manual labor. They don't embrace efficiency and just complain about others doing their job better. Swiss farmer is obviously saying protectionism works, it pays for his crap. How stupid to interview someone like that, he lacks any objectivity.
110Good Life: Germany is Britain and USA all allied they change their face using another country like USA is now all Eyes are on USA they Germany is now the facade. all global elites
111Another bod: this is a terrible documentary - 100% anti-China. europeans spent decades plundering wealth around the world - why the double standards???
112Isaac Robin: Calys Agora - You're victim to an idealistic fantasy, buddy, one which is completely ahistorical. The free-market fantasy is as idealistic and unrealistic as the socialist variety. I've got some bad news for you though: Anarchy (which is what you're advocating) is a power vacuum quickly filled by authoritarian rule. What we have in the West is not perfect, but it's better than other system to date.
113spelunkerd: There are two sides to every thoughtful discussion, and good documentaries expose both sides. You have nicely shown how local food producers can sell their products for more if imports from other countries are barred from competition. Not even mentioned is the fact that consumers in that same country will end up paying more for the same food. Everybody eats food, but only a fraction of the population sell that food. So, you make everybody in the country pay more for food, to benefit a minority who want to charge more for something that can be made more efficiently elsewhere. Even worse, when a country penalizes imports, don't be surprised if other countries erect reciprocal trade barriers against your exports. So, those avocados that are more easily made in your favorable climate are slapped with extra duty when exported to other countries. In the end, everybody pays for extra taxation, both ways, and trade is stifled when consumers are barred from making their own decisions. Unfortunately, extra taxes have a way of disappearing to corruption and inefficiency rather than being reinvested wisely in a country.
114Ash Dixson: 29:00 why doesn't this lady realize that the EU is not her friend? They don't care what happens to Africa (although they may pretend otherwise). The only way to get what you want is by force - there is no free lunch.
115ddskimmer: I ordered Spanish garlic from Amazon, for they were being touted as very tasty, the type only used by the finest restaurants. When I bought them, I actually forgot I did, for they took 3 weeks to arrive and only a few days prior did I think about the purchase. When they arrived, they arrived from China! So, Spanish garlic grown and shipped from China. It cost me $3.95 for the stupid garlic, but then I noticed when I looked for a product in Amazon, the prices for the items were astronomically blown out of proportion in comparison to other sites. I looked for a crimping tool and normally the tool would cost $18 or so. Amazon listed the tool for $725 and other ridiculous pricing! So, if you are stupid enough to buy Spanish garlic from China...you are great candidate for buying ancient Chinese secrets.
116XZaapryca: I learned that tariffs lead to world war and, again, white people are evil.
117African Explorer: So you want to tell me all these expensive German Machines (Benz, Etc) that these Africans are driving around are made in CHINA? ????????
118Gunpowder & Lace: Oh, you want to go back to living hand to mouth? Starvation and famine in years of local crop failures? Yeah, that sounds like a good plan. ?
119Beamy Cream: I would rather pay more to have my stuff made at home. Always spot on with their contents without unnecessary information. Well done DW.
120Levine Levine: @40:22, "Without Protectionism, trade can never be fair " sounds like infamous phrase: All men are created equal, but some are more equal than others. The narrator is using Orwellian Double Speak: Protectionism is free trade while free trade is exploitation. The unrepentant narrator closing statement, "Trade that is truly free is a myth, and always remain one" is dangerously close to declaring freedom is slavery since the beginning of time. This video is a clever piece of propaganda soft-selling 'Protectionism' ; its production is paid for by special interest groups with an evil agenda. There is no denying it. We do have free trade on the micro-economic level but not on the macro-economic level due to the trade interference by the government at the behest of powerful special interest groups. Consumers always want high quality goods at low prices. The consumer preference drives many producers to find efficiency to lower cost. However, some seek out government protection to curb competition.
121Tiago Araújo: its the same as the 2008 crisis except now its much more profitable, much more profound in the economies stances, there are less regulations, because of "donalds" presidents, much bigger wealth gap, the 2008 crisis was like the pre-crisis to the real crisis. wait until the genocide of the rest of humanity is born and the super rich just decide to kill everybody else so that they can live by themselves...thanks for voting on them.
122Monaleenian: skymooov1 Totally wrong. Free trade works regardless of the size of the economy of the individuals engaging in that trade. It works because it benefits both parties. It ensures efficient behavior on a worldwide level and that you don't have crazy, wasteful scenarios like farmers in Iceland trying to grow bananas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_production_in_Iceland
123Aleksandar Kolev: parmbir: you are an idiot, trade is win-win situation between producer and customer. Without trades, there would be wars, crimes and slaves. Take a choose now: free voluntary trade or guns and blood.
124Nokah: You cant have fair trade, in an unfair world.
125Aleks Cortiz: There ia no such free trade.....so dont be fool folks....Rich is getting richer by ripping people off with fees and taxes..
126Quinn Smith: This has been very illuminating... This further infuriates me when idiots say you just need to work harder to people from developing countries. If it was all about hard work, Europe would not be competitive.
127solomonarbc: What's wrong with bias? The very fact they chose to report about it is a BIAS to report about it instead of something else. They showed how free trade affects both positively and negatively poorer people. They did not opt for total isolation either.
128Napster __: All countries should ban Chinese imports
129Cameron Moore: Tariffs should be constantly adjusted by all countries to match their own current requirements. Rather than some religious like dogma about the glories of free trade and the dangers of protectionism, tariffs should be applied when it is beneficial, and reduced when it is beneficial. And no country should try to influence the tariffs applied by another country, that should be considered an act of aggression
130Ymous Anon: free trade is another name for grand theft
131Subzero: Made in China is Ok. You are feeding a Chinese family. Globalization is good as long as everybody plays by the rules.
132Senaleb: It ruined many sectors in the US as well. NAFTA in theory was suppose to raise Mexico's economics, but thru corrupt politicians and globalist businesses..Mexico just got manufacturing with poor wages, the US lost manufacturing with good wages...and neither country got shit out of it. Now Mexico is having to compete with China manufacturing..which is impossible as you can see due to China being a complete shithead.
133Santiago Bron: free trade is the reason why you're watching this documentary.
134Philip B: If protectionism forces me to buy from Producer A instead of Producer B: that is wallet slavery.
135Meso Anto: How can global trade be right for a country like America when it have 500 billion dollars in trade deficit?? China and Germany are the top beneficiaries in global trade!
136Dylfen: Africa: We need money boohoo. Europe: Okay, here you go, use them well... Africa: Thanks mate, you don’t want them back at some point? Europe: No, but now our citizens who paid you, really don’t think you used them well, so we had to change some things, so they could get there money back... Africa: boohoo again. - Financial aid to Africa has always been a wast of time and money. It lake giving coffee money to a junky.
137Eric lamb: Can someone please explain why a farmer in Africa can't compete with a farmer in Europe? When you have the cost of transport, 30% tariffs and dirt cheap wages? Is it because the farms in Europe are more efecient?
138Georgios Tsirtsidis: Ok, that's propaganda. The whole documentary has been debunked since the 70s. We live in a world of failed socialist states and this trash of a documentary tells us to double down. Nooooooo thanks!!!! Only Free Market and If you like to work, so be it. If not, please go do your drugs and leave us in our peace and prosperity. We have seen the face of what you're implicitly suggesting, and we're sorry we aren't good enough for you DW! Why don't you go work though, instead of telling us who should do what? Come on! Hurry up! Go make those bikes by my new protectionist law. As for Cameroon I'm pretty sure they'll be indeed "indebted" pretty soon, am I right?
139Angelo Cordova: I just dont understand why countries allowed to flood their market more than what they need specially in terms of agricultural products that can be produce locally?? Who desides on how much quantities of imported products which will be allowed to enter the market?
140acridotherestristis: The west should stop complaining! Did someone once say something about picking cherries?
141Ant Nam: Damn your free trade!
142Robert Miller: Interesting; no mention about the huge barriers the EU has against Agricultural imports and the massive subsidies of the EU farmers! We don''t have any barriers to German or Japanese Car imports but the Japanese have a 400% Tarrif on our beef exports and the EU has a Trade Barrier of about 60%. That is why I won't buy a Japanese Car or Product; I buy Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese but not Japanese. Japan had the opportunity to set a Free Trade Agreement with Australia and New Zealand when the UK joined the EEC in 1973; we would have welcomed it. But NO Japan just wanted us to buy their cars, TV, etc with no quid pro qou .As a new Zealander who's father fought in WW2; I remember these stats;If you were a Kiwi POW under the Japs you had a 50% Chance of surviving the war. If you were a Kiwi POW taken by the Germans you had a 90% chance of surviving the war!
143Gin Yi Lee: i think the clip clearly illustrate that free trade is not always win-win... it`s true that free trade is a capitalism.. when capital flow easily and with many tax exemption, labor is hard to migrate..
144Subzero: Trust of businesses is also very low. If a product says it's made in the USA or made in Germany how much can you trust it? People don't mind paying a higher price for a product that supports local business but I wouldn't want them too earn unfair profits either without paying good salaries to their workers.
145Tobi Oyewumi: This is highly informative!
146Vijay Durga Raju: its funny to know that eu the f**ng continent which done unimaginable horrors in asia & africa for centuries with its colonization. EU should get its KARMA and descend into never recovering doom
147Insidious DrNine: @17:00 "Sad that the local Chevrolet dealer closed..." Drives a Volvo.
148Lisa nelson: Africa is messed up all the land and people still import food. No unity within the country no unity outside the country no unity with the continent. Its like every tribe from themselves then every man for himself an no one wants to may the sacrifice in creating the domain effect of a collective change a collective growth or a collective trust. WHY?
149marine drive: The rise of nationalism/protectionism is really a response to the exploitative practices of giant multinational corporations and their use of off-shore tax havens. The trend towards globalism, such as in the case of the formation of the EU super-state has only aided these giant corporations in their quest for ever greater profits, which is at odds with its stated intent of creating a fairer global trading environment. Thus we now live in a world where wealth inequality is increasing at an alarming rate, especially in the poorer parts of the world and in middle-class manufacturing areas, such as the "rust belt" regions of the US.
150detroitmetro101: its ironic how our biggest problem when it comes to trade is that we all produce more than we consume...even with 7 billion people and growing, there are still not enough consumers to buy what we all make. I say, bring on free trade, flood the markets, destroy jobs and industries that are not competitive, protectionism is only delaying the inevitable. if we truly have free trade, maybe then we can bring about, more quickly, another market revolution...we will not be able to sustain all of us making the same things in the us, eu, china, etc...such as bikes, so let those who make them cheaper do it, while the rest of us find something else to do...for the first time in history, people are becoming freer from their immediate wants and needs, because of globalization, that should give them time to find something else to do, and we should...perhaps we should take up crocheting until we figure it out.
151Chartoise: Germany and the US have been buddies, Germany and China have been trading associates. If your trading associate increases tariffs, you are bummed out. If your buddy increases tarifss, you are angry. From China we all expect knee jerk reactions to market situations, so they get the tariffs that belong to that unstable market. America has been solid since forever, and so they got the tariffs that belonged to that stable market. It is actually very logical economics, you just dont understand it.
152Denise Proxima: Mauricio Casacó We like our water and enviroment.
153Axel Durman: And still we wonder why Africans are streaming into Europe??
154John Hyndman: It is time for the EU to break up. It is a failed socialist experiment.
155GaslitWorld f. Melissa B: Sell o Ly your countries excess abroad. Make sure your own get first. Rare, in demand items should sell for more abroad. Support mom and pop businesses locally and by god, buy way less in general. Save. Save. Save.
156Hayden Philbert: Everyone dumps there garbage on the US, lots of the products are of the lowest quality,food,cars,building materials,meds etc,but how can we be a super power when we buy food from our enemies?US has a population of sick people.one can not eat food from his enemies"China" at the top.
157I am Yours: The point is no matter what they do, the manufacturers will move its location where the market if favourable. Why is certain things heavily charged in a country for production and cannot be competitive towards global market rates ? Failing to do so, arises the problems of unemployment and closures as mentioned in the video. It's the government's job to regulate fair prices, be it production or whatever. Boycotting goods, and buying only nation made won't solve the problem. One can only suggest, rest has to be assured and convinced to follow what you put into plan to only use nation made goods. In the end, its peoples choice what they buy and invest into as its their money and their choice. People won't go for inferior products if they are going to get something better at even cheaper prices. So, Adjust with time and new era. Find new jobs if old one get closed out. Its life, keep moving on.
158EGH181: Free-trade destroyed the US. We lost millions of good paying jobs. What do we have now? Crappy jobs at Starbucks and Walmart. Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Bismarck all supported protectionism. They all noted that those who protected their economies grew at a faster rate.
159MARK MAHAN: This was a great video. I suspected most of what this video covers. But there were a few thing that gave new insights. Thanks so much for this well informative piece.
160Barskor1: Yes deceptive because that "Free Trade" has a tens of thousands of regulations attached to it.
161Gggg Jkvh: in 20:23 there is a flag of USA but Germany is only marked with a line. In 29:41 there is Polish flag instaed of German? Realy Brits are so ignorant or its done on purpose to whitewash Germans? The answer is clear.
162Enna Kavi: germans live in tiny houses .!
163Микола Моргун: 26:38 That knife! In our country it would be illegal to carry it in the street or even keep at home... But that woman just slices onion with it
164doughtymqan: All governments are organized crime and must be destroyed. This vid is statist propaganda.
165Minh Vũ: The West got used to so much privilege, it's time they accept other countries rising too
166Dipankar Singh: Her whole expenses till now to setup her home with American products will still cost less than that single giant Volvo alone. lols. I think she is spreading a spoof in the name of Nationalism and gaining popularity, which will lead her to earn through marketing American products by selling her popularity further. This is again a small example of self obsession and mini service-capitalism, where due to her request, poor Americans are buying Expensive American products just to prove their loyalty, but at the same time Laymen Brothers takes their remaining savings and invests in infrastructure projects in Singapore and Hong Kong, and following the economic failure no one gets nothing ?
167Ibrahim Diriye: Free trade is a myth as I am not allowed to export my coca leaves to the US.
168PHILIP: This video is so ridiculous . Which intelligent person would want to pay higher price, when items could be purchased at much much much lower price, if tariffs don"t exist at all. Obviously most people (except those that are brain washed by nonsense ideology ) , would want to pay lowest price , and wont bother where the items come from .
169Manjeet Singh Mann: Wonderful video and fantastically explained in minute details,, I am extremely benefitted by the video. Thanks so much for uploading such a great video.
170Mingo Tubman: Nothing but garbage.
171oneviwatara: Lei P
172Shabaka Kem: The WTO, the UN and all the other world bodies were actually set up by Europe to safeguard primarily, her own interests. Of course buy- in is needed from other countries of the world therefore what occurs is an elaborate deception of the rest of the" inferior pawns" Africa and the "third world" so that the diabolic agenda can continue. From slavery to colonialism to present day so called "free trade " the same "White Supremist " agenda and black people still too dumb to realize.That agenda forbids anyone of the countries but European countries from developing nuclear weapons, while the rest of the world leaders, like cows on a farm also too dumb to understand what the true agenda is. The only way out of this exploitative mess will be when the other leaders of the world get together and decide that enough is enough, gather their balls , that is, if they actually have any balls remaining, and confront Europe head on, for a total dismantling of this hypocritical world order or lack of it. Until then, the best hope for Africa would be for her to protect her interests by deepening and strengthening her common market. Countries willing to trade with her should set down their factories on African soil and make those products using African labour, as well as provide training in technology to her work force, otherwise it would be better for her resources to stay in the soil and be available for future generations. Africa has all the known minerals in abundance, land that is boundless, and an over abundance of fresh water and year round weather to feed the world, using her rivers she can make her deserts green again, but to do this there must be a radical change . All trade should be done not in US dollars or other paper money, but using equivalent values to be negotiated.Import items only on condition that whatever you are selling us must be made on African soil, otherwise we are not buying .
173DJ Trevi: I try to buy Spanish products first, and local products first and those products that protect the environment. I don't think it has to do with nationalism, I just want to help out my community. Especially Barcelona wages are low and inflation is high due to tourism.
174Johney Smith: @me myself, I think I can understand your point and agree. It's all started with industrialization some 300 years ago. We Chinese are still missing those old days with pastoral scenes, days when we so deeply connected with our land/soil...... This DW documentary is just an campaign of anti-China from the opposite direction: When China did NOT want any trades with the Europeans, they waged wars against China with the banner of "free trade + free market"; now China wants free trade, they start claiming this practice is a deceptive promise. LOL This documentary is particular misleading and half truth half lie: China can only massively producing "low-end" products before it can save enough money to buy "high-end" products from the Western countries, including Germany and the US. For example, China used to make 800 millions (Yes, 800 MILLIONS) shirts in order to buy one airplane from Boeing. Even now, China are spending over $200 billion each year to buy computer chips from the US, more than its spending on oil ! Same with Germany, China makes many low-ends products, such as bicycles, in turn to buy many high-end products from Germany. High ends products have more added value and the workers get much more pay. Below is an example, in the video at 1:15:20: a Germany expert admitted that many Western manufactures have made huge profit for decades over China, or example Germany has created hundreds of thousand jobs that depend on China’s market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2UUN1xFlA4 What Does Xi Jinping and China's Rise Mean for the United States and Europe? By massive producing low-end products, China actually keeps and creates jobs for the US and Germany. Those jobs are consider "good jobs". DW documentary hides this fact. Now Germans and Americans have the audacity to accuse China for stealing their low-end jobs!?!?!? So the film producers want both advantages go to the West, keeping all the low-ends jobs to themselves, while selling all the high end products to China, but where could China come up with the money to buy from the West, have they thought of that?! Maybe it's best that every country just keeps self-sufficient, no international trading at all.
175wanelly: Moyo .A. Then they label Africans as poor and yet the West is the thief that keeps stealing from Africa using WTO and IMF as a shield.
176Benjamin 12: the South Pacific Islands has been experiencing similar situation like in Cameroon.....if these Island nations government implement protectionism I believe that the standard of living will be much better thn today.... and one more thing: the Chinese government invested heavy money to some island nation by building huge complex,bridges,roads and etc. but never employ the locals, they only employs Chinese workers...and this type of investment never have any benefits to island nation, How will the island nations pay the huge loans back to China if unemployment is the big issue. This is the trick.... If the country can't pay the loan thn China will take some land from that country to pay the debts and today it's happening to South Pacific Islands....they're building Chinese navy/ military bases as of now. # you should make a documentary about this issue in the South Pacific Islands
177K Ham: Did this documentary just blame WWII on the US? @ 20:40 -- 21:00
178Romi Agua: Comércio. ↙➡⤴↖⬅
179Sharalynn Shanley: So 5is channel is called... ..... This issue was the makings of OB and HC, just a little tiny look into history of these two. Or just look at today, presently, real time.... Trump is going to be hated in the US, and other countries. Why, he’s work he’s tail off since day 1 of his administration. Does he say crazy even putting others down. The difference between Trumps administrations and OB, and Clinton’s, is he says out loud what he thinks of some others or last time we all checked. North and South Korea met a few weeks ago., Trump is making History in making peace with a country at one time the US went to war with. What’s happening with Kenya, Libya, deals that were made by OB and no one knew. Until now. The country wanted a politician, they got a businessman. That’s what he’s doing “taking” care of business..... a companies go thru all of this all the time. It’s not a new trend because of Trump. Why in the world for once saying good job Trump! Is so hard! If Hillary would’ve won, oh my can even imagine knowing now what we do. Can we for once just celebrate the peace going on Historically for all to see. Please put on the story of both sides. It’s nasty when you see the nails come out to take someone down. The saying used to be “Only in America”. No, it’s “only for the greedy people around the World”.
180Eric: Do other countries produce cheaper or is it companies that move their plants to a cheap country. This was very well explained.
181Thomas Ullmann: Advancements in robotics will ensure production returns to locations nearest to consumption.
182Storolf: Globalism is a nightmare.
183Ahmad Idrus: The western workers are just overpaid, thts the problem
184Mark Stouffer: CLUE: Free does not mean gratis. It means liberated. It is not surprising to hear more German's arguing against liberated trade and liberated people. Marx, Hegel, Hitler, DW government TV, all arguing against trade liberation. No surprise there. Next, they will argue in favor of GDPR restrictions. No surprise.
185solomonarbc: Food security is not hypocrisy. The problem is somehow taking back the subsidies on the foodstuffs which will be exported. One way to do that is to tax food exports which received subsidies prior to that. That way foreign farmers won't have cheap EU food to compete with, and the EU won't have a famine in case the trade will be upset.
186Tiago Araújo: chinese people gotta to survive too they are 2 billion people...maybe they are actually working too much in order to be able to survive while us and europe getting swolen from their hard works.
187BigKatz: Another well produced documentary from DW, focused on the issue, not the political fights enveloping it.
188Jules Remi: No information is unbiased. Everybody has motives
189Lou M: Germany is the biggest exporter in the world and China is their biggest importer. China is the biggest trade partner of Russia; it is Russia's biggest importer. We see many made in China products because of cheap labor. American and other foreign companies outsource the making of their products to China because of lower cost. American and foreign companies make most of the profits.The US exports many high ticket goods to China. The Chinese love American products. Sending factory jobs overseas frees up Americans to go for higher education for better jobs. The problem lies is that not all people are cut for white collar jobs.
190Jimmy Stone: Dw has good doco
191sfbluestar: This is such an informative program! I summarize my take away and some thoughts: 1. Benefit of trade is specialization thus higher production efficiency 2. Problems of free trade are mainly two: A) trade imbalance between countries B) Within every country, some industries gain while some lose. 3. Therefore, the key to free trade issue is also two principles. Countries should work toward trade balance, meaning we don't take money from each other. China would not like that, but that's only fair. Then, each country government should implement domestic policies that take from those benefiting from free trade and help those impacted by free trade transition to other industries.
192Calys Agora: Except their definition of free trade is far from real free trade. So long as government has anything to say about out free choice, or are given the (false) authority to tax (steal from) us, there is no free trade. Globalist statist consumerist corpocracy is NOT real free trade or real capitalism.
193Joey Jia: China is such a selfless country that sacrifice itself so that you all can have cheap products, people around the world should be thankful for China, that's only logical
194Kai Zhang: They didn't complain when their countries were making billions or even trillions dollars per year from "free trade" in early years. This world is full of irony
195MsGillian57: The United States can produce anything it needs. It has a local market of 350 million consumers. We do not need to deal with unfair trade deals.
196Sleepy J: So they're basically blaming the US for the 2nd world war ?
197epSos.de: *Protecting from global markets* does not work. USSR did try that for 70 years. Did not work out well. Japan did try that for 200 years. Did not work out well. You can try it yourself. Stop eating Chocolate and drinking coffee, if such things are not produced in your place ! Then stop crying about China. Start to make better products that people in every country can afford !
198perfecttrunks2000: Just remember in the "good ole" days countries like UK tried to sell opium to China to address their trade deficit and then went to war when China fought back against the opium smugglers. Good thing that's not allowed anymore.
199Goldy: Quote from good will hunting Will: Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people that I never met and that I never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
200Marcos Alonso: 24:40 "The path take her through the jungle. There is no streets".... is that....is that seriously a problem??, I would pay ANYTIME to walk through nature in my way to work. Seriously, is civilization only about concrete and paved paths?
201Bernard Ignatius Grayson: The biggest problem with free trade agreements like the WTO, IMO, is that they see people only as consumers. They like to preach the low prices on products made in low-wage countries (though many economists have said that this is a fallacy) but people are not just consumers; they are also workers, business owners, homeowners and parents and if they lose their jobs and their businesses to low-wage countries because of free trade, they're not going to care what the cost of a dvd player is if they can't pay their mortgage.
202Chartoise: If we buy cheap, we exploit their workers, if we sell cheap, we destroy their markets. We can't do anything right, can we? They might as well show us 45 minutes of the text "White people are bad!". And we already knew that, cause everybody has been telling us... So this docu is pointless. Next docu! --->
203Simplon- -B: Shitty jobs in cheap service business are not benefitting anyone. One can barely make a living out of them. A job alone doesn't say much about how much it add to the economy.
204Leo Freihofer: Great video. Wish the American news channels would produced informative content as this. Just subbed.
205Mrbrain bob: Michiel Van Kets If anyone is a loser it’s Europeans and their double standards
206solomonarbc: Yes, a 50 year old hammer made in the west is also reliable for 50 years now compared to a new one made in China. Why do you need a new smartphone every so often? Would it have been more expensive? Maybe, but the plants would have been fully automated, so the fivefold increase is an exaggeration. Also, the technology could have been more advanced as no one can trust China with intellectual property. It makes no sense to waste a lot of money on research if some random guy will steal the trade secrets and compete with the same product? Where do you get the money for R&D if you have no returns on your investments?
207Grant Beerling: Cherry picked......so disregard as an unbiased documentary. Its very biased, just look at the storeys and where they were taken from. On a personal note I lean to the left of the political agenda and understand that 'free' trade is a myth,always has been. All trade is regulated depending on landscape, energy resources, local resources, climate, transportation links and finally tax regimes. The bottom line for the US and Germany in particular is that they both realize than a race to the bottom only benefits the few for a short period of time, thus the Neoliberal destruction of regulated finance that has caused so many of these ills. Looking at the bigger picture is looking at a country's strengths and working with tax to finance industries that will prosper, so new tech, local tradespeople, design, environmental tech, education. Personally i think Germany has it about right. Whereas Trumps sudden 25% tariff on steel is crazy, old heavy industry. Humans are adaptable and evolve, government has to give people the opportunity to re-train throughout their lives as the world changes. We are always in a state of flux. Finally Tax Capital, but that has to be on a world standard...When you have a large amount of Capital you have earnings whilst you sleep, 90% of us don't...we work....every day...
208Joe Shmogetlow: As an American citizen I can tell you we are not accepting tariffs
209DW Documentary: Hi Calys, sorry but that´s unfair against our colleagues. We are happy about compliments but please respect others - as we do. Thank you
210Sameer Pedhambkar: Very good documentary
211Stan Thompson: Close the border on Free Trade and allow poor countries to progress! Issues like these force migration of poor people into countries that don't want them, we see those images at borders of the USA and Europe. Poverty is a crime against the poor!
212maanvol: Only trash is made in the USA! So, what does Trump sell to the rest of the planet, besides his toxic waste and military outdated garbage, for the Middle East -- for only Israel is suitable for exceptions...
213蔡志强: Lonnie Fortney $1.5 is too high to sustain Chinese manufacturing industry, factories are leaving China for Southeast Asian countries where wages can be $200 per month
214adamshattuck1985: free trade...if your chinese maybe. free trade has caused alot of domestic harm to each country and the EU has basically set up a union like on a job site to protect members. but like most unions, they have stopped working with members and just started saying who transports/exports what inside the eu and anything going outside gets negotiated by a foreign country who doesnt seem to care if it damages your local economy.
215Kwadwo Asiama: I am ashamed to be African. Africa needs to protect itself. This is the most unfair world we leave in.
216Bharat First: DW is very good. Million times better than BBC or USA news
217Mike Smith: Here in Australia I wanted govt to label all goods and have in top pight hand corner AAA or FFF, FAF or AFA or AAF First LETTER ownership 2nd LETTER Contents orgin or grown and last Where constructed or pakaged. The get defining LETTER 80%+ plus must be Australian or Foreign. Ass wipe govt told me it was too complex, Forgetting which is which, does not matter when see goods FAA or AFF you know one is 2/3 Australian oe FFF totaly foriegn or AAA totally Australian or American.
218Bro Brian: Bottom line is that if you put tariffs on our chit, we'll put tariffs on yours. End of story. Signed, Donald Trump.
219robspunk: There is no such thing as free trade with mainland China. 17-19% base tax rates on ALL foreign products have always stood in China. What the US has done is level the playing field on just some sectors.
220S0chan: Don't the cows at 30:30 look fake as fuck? Why would they add CGI cows? I don't get it.
221jacob edwards: It should be called slave trade! Because that is what it is. They ship the taxes over seas too retards!
222iativ: Protectionism is not a solution. Fighting subsidies and tax shelters is.
223verne davis: timestamp video(in CC?). seen this many times, but it says it's only 2mo old
224Famicom Nintendo: Well it is so much worse when YOU do it
22569NOMAN69 noman: ok who do i listen to, a 2bit reporter or a Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman, about free trade. im going with uncle milt! true fee trade works!
226Tanit Thamakaison: Any subsidies but governments should be put illegal if they want to be in free trade world!
227isaac6992: Great documentary.. unbiased information. Thank you.
228Mauricio Casacó: The main reason why companies invest in china is because they have way less regulations than Europe. If you wanna compete with thoose markets you don't need more goverment interference, you need less. As Ronald Reagan said: "Goverment is not the solution to our problem. Goverment is the problem".
229GreaterGood510: Fair Trade > free trade
230mike dar: Why does the U.S. have a 250% tariff placed on milk, going to Canada?Why does the U.S. have a 100% tariff placed on Harley Davidson, going to India?If "Globalism is so great, then why are we not allowed to compete... Globally?'Trade War' or simply governments creating safe environs for their own manufacturer companies? 'Trade war' or simply companies getting what they want?'Trade War' or simply labor and fiat exchanges being manipulated?However one looks at this Tariff Issue, America is getting screwed and all the complaints are from Foreign Governments, Foreign companies and the American lobbyists buying our elected  officials in the U.S. government and not elected officials in the Agencies/regulators.However one looks at this Tariff Issue, America is getting screwed because only officials are deciding... everything, only officials.. are getting rich via tariffs.However one looks at this Tariff Issue, America is getting screwed because citizens cannot produce many goods for other markets in the world with any true competitive pricing.
231kongming2005: Donald trumpet brings the darkside, hypocrisy and shame to american
232Moon Moghul: Free trade and fair traders !Ms because itsthe giants that usually winor sanctioned to win withgrant subsidies and quilters!
233Brentonius Aussiebloke: Syed Hammad Ahmed not just europeans tho, literally every civilisation throughout history.
234876beauty: bm3racer Turkey has a better advantage being a country that does not have to deal with natural disasters, it has a larger population hence a more diversified economy, doesn't have high import costs ( do your research on Island Nations and the effects of expensive imports)...Island nations with smaller populations and different risk exposures should not be forced to compete with larger economies. Our brothers and sisters in Barbados and Bahamas are now facing the same problems we faced then even though their economies were doing well with tourism and Off shore banking
235EvilChris2010: Hahahahahaha. Who created this “documentary”, Fox News?
236Sylvain C: Free trade is the way to follow, "Free to choose series" by Nobel Prize Milton Friedman is the documentary you want to see.
237Michael Olson: It should be about the best for the dollar. Trade does work. What about the positive side of trade when the dollar goes further? Purchasing power!
238epicpurevids: I'm sure that woman obsessed with american products has a good heart but... we are all humans on this planet, if she only buys American then doesn't it effect someone else in the world in the same negative way? At the end of the day globalization is about competitiveness to get cheaper prices and create specialization of goods so more people can have quality products at a cheaper price. So I feel like some of these people who obsess over whats american made or not fail to see the big picture of why the system is the way it is. It's so much more complex than oh its not made in america thats awful.... so complex. She purchased one of the most expensive things in her life most likely, a car, and did not buy american? Fucking hypocrisy, had to stop watching after that.
239Christian Jensen: The answer is simple: quit having children and stop buying manufactured goods. The more you know, the less you need.
240solomonarbc: Tariffs don't mean complete isolation you claimed with Japan, and maybe Soviet Union. USA has had tariff barriers for it's automotive industry and car makers went to the USA entirely manufacturing or assembling their cars for the US market. Tariffs work, but the quantum must be properly set, and negotiated with other countries. China might not be the worst, but it has a strong tradition of devaluing intellectual property to the point where innovation brings value but not much advancement. In the long run, it doesn't help at all with climate change, sustainable living (recycling) nor socio-economic advancements to allow the introduction of the universal basic income. Economy has it's own politics.
241jacob edwards: It is really simple! We are going to open our own steel mills! You guys can keep yours.
242haoru chen: the company makes the money, not the factory. the board members, the lawyers, the investors, not the chinese worker who is paid ten bucks a day......nobody likes this except the fat cats ok? they pay so little in china it's notorious. xenophobic idiots
243Joe Pierre: After watching this video twice I understand why Germany puts an import Duty on something coming from China but here's the human toll a Polish worker can go to work and economic zone in Germany making German products for 1/3 what it cost that company to hire a German you're using the poles dramatically you treating them like under class of worker this is wrong China needs not do what they're doing you need to be shut down at least wagina I don't see them as the human parasite that I do have Germany and Japan you are really hurting people around the world you're good at it 8 million Jews that died in the gas Chambers can't be wrong you're an evil people I don't want to see Chinese Goods here I definitely don't want to see German Goods here and if I had to pick a winner it would be China I would just as soon as your money didn't exist she has an American also have to look at the human toll that you've cost as I said before you nothing but a bunch of parasites like Japan and it's far as what you've done I think that countries like Czechoslovakia Poland Russia Romania they need to get paid back for the hurt you've caused them so I say we just spend Germany for all the factories out and strip every brick out of every house and send them East to the countries suffered the most and don't get me started on the French cuz stripping them would just be the beginning
244Sebastian Berg: Trade defficit is not the same as debt.. Publishing a "documentary" on a topic without doing basic research..
245Davidson Eboseremen: 42 minutes is a bit too long chief.
246novelaviator: For a country with decently low population density there should be no minimum wage. The market is best at self correcting. The whole population goes up together or goes down together.
247The Bridge: yeah that explanation for WW2 was not satisfactory, I agree.
248MrCMVikram: So, Germany and many European countries as well as China imposes duty on imported goods. So why is there a huge cry when Donald Trump imposed duty on Chinese Steel?
249Michał Orłowski: Why Germany is depicted with a Polish flag in a German document? (29:58)
250GiftGamer: you mean like the trump ties and hats made in china! lol there trump is ripping off usa workers and exploiting poor Chinese workers. only an arsehole of a god would bless an arsehole!
251Callum Gillman: Why the hell does every other country not just copy things that work so well in others??? Why does it take so long///
252Greg K.: Nothing new. This has been going on for thousand of years.
253My Name Is a dead Man: The Glass plate is China, where else could it made
254Biking With Panda: +malnatik9@Gmail.com fwiw, Tesla cars are manufactured in the US but they use resources mined from other countries anyway. we do not have rare earth minerals.
255Sayit AsItIs: WWII was not started because of changes in trade policies. It was started because Germany, yet again, wanted to rule Europe and wipe out Jews because they thought the Aryan race was perfect. I'm liking cheap Chinese goods and I'm not liking expensive German products. It's my money - why should Germany steal it to keep themselves rich?
256Around The World: Free Trade is not "FREE".
257Bobbie Macgregor: Jack Black selling bikes that are made in China.
258Henk van der Laak: China has done to hardware, what Microsoft has done to software: everybody thinks it's normal that it breaks down every week.
259John Spurlock: without protectionism you can't get people by America because the American Products is going to cost three times as much because the foreign government are subsidizing the Imports selling products less than it cost to make them because this is an attack on America just like a war what matters if they're dropping bombs on you or $20 bicycles
260Henry A.: "Globalism" can be a boon for the avg man unfortunately large multinational corporations have such advantage in the market place due to lobbying in other words legalized bribery of politicians in order to ensure cont. dominance in the market i.e. corp. handouts/subsidies or lowering taxes if not all together helping them avoiding paying their fair share in taxes like every citizens does which gives them a huge advantage over competitors & helps creates monopolies. And the irony from a US perspective is the avg person especially in the Southern & Mid-West states beleive that Republicans are the working man's party when they've been proven over & over to be corporate puppets which is why they pass policies to undermine worker's rights & benefits as well implementing huge tax cuts for the 1% i.e. trickle down economics & as long as they can cont. to successfully demonize immigrants whether they be Mexicans, Asians, or Irish before that they will cont. to do the bidding of these large conglomerates.
261Mr Dominic: The most important point is made between 29:00 and 31:00 i.e. countries resort to protectionist measures in order to safeguard the home industry, whereas they preach the virtues of free trade to the rest of the world. Those who fail to see this hypocrisy need to have their heads examined. This is an excellent documentary. Well done, DW.
262Enigma Productions: baby president said they're beating us on TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADE!!!!!!!
263Self-cucking Whiteman, FAKE NOOSE: Read ur own history books again. America got rich off WW2 while the rest of civilization had to recover from the war complety rebuild
264Hong Shi: This is just stupid. You have to decide between one of the following: * Have products made overseas, you lose jobs for manufacturing these products, but gain jobs making other products. * Have the product made locally but more expensive or cut the wage by half. And have all types of jobs in a country. Increase wage increase product price. Decrease product price decreases wages. And if you do not let the company decrease wage, they will make product overseas. Simple as that. Globalisation is basically do what your country is good at, and leave the rest to rest of the world, which means smaller country will only be left with one or two type of manufacturing jobs basically.
265wk fong: this is the side effect of capitalism
266develoger: Free as in Freedom of speech not free as in Free of charge. ?
267peter kung: I live in Hong Kong. I like free trade. If Hong Kong don't impose tax to import goods and food, it would be cheaper. If other countries don't tax on made in Hongkong goods, our produce would be more competitive. Hong Kong is a small city that could not produce its own food, nor machine, not even hand tools, nor home use electricity devices. This city has no need to protect any of its factory. However, I oppose any country to practice real free trade policy. The right to impose tax on import goods is the most effective tool to protect the industry of a country. A responsible government should not give up this right. For national security reasons, a country must protect her own food production industry, machine making industries, electronic industry. Then in case if she is unable to purchase something from abroad, she could still survive, able to do it by herself, although at a higher price.
268Ju Pa: poor animals.
269lou: +Gunpowder & Lace I hate what has happened to farming in this country, and do not blame subsidies for it.
270Ghost Cat: Consumerism is a disease.
271Curt Howland: A documentary made by people who don't have any idea how economics works. I found the continuous citations of government interference under the label "free trade" to be only the most glaring error. Underneath is a complete ignorance as to why entrenched, politically protected industries still fail, and fail BIG, because competition is suppressed by government regulation, so that when competition finally does occur, the protected industries have no ability to change to meet the new markets. If you think trade does not bring prosperity, then stop trading with your neighbors. Grow your own food, make your own clothes out of the materials you grow. If you are not interested in starving to death in the dark, then admit trade is beneficial. Beneficial for everyone who engages in it, exactly as you engage in trade with your grocery store.
272Recklessbliss Characternotcolor: One container ship can create more pollution than a million cars a day. SInce everything we have has to be shipped the earth slowly dies. If you love the earth, always try to stop buying Chinese disposable crap. They do not care about people, animals, or the environment.
273chigasaki06: The hypocrisy of the west is laughable. Leaders go to African countries where they discuss the mystery of why some African countries do not thrive, all the while not allowing them to protect their own vulnerable markets to be able to flood their markets with cheap goods.
274Who Me: spex357 Do you know anything about 2008 crisis?
275Ben Jerry: Lets not pretend we are dumb please. The US Tariffs on Steel and Aluminium are based on the singular issue that Chinese steel producers have lowered the costs of steel to capture the market and bankrupt US steel. In effect reducing their military complex. Now let's get real, every trading bloc and nation has items on its grocery list that is protected by tariffs to maintain internal stability. Its a give and take. But some nations are not playing fair. Running at a loss, so to squash competitors but being backed by National and state funds. Its different protecting state required industries and allowing state funded industries to deliberately manipulate the market. But there in lies the rub, are they protecting or deflecting? Its hard to tell. Just understand that The USA is not about to sit and watch their steel manufacturing industry be outsourced to any nation.
276Henry A.: Support your local Unions & buy from local sellers where you can it may be more expensive but it is usually of better quality when compared to items made in China, Bangladesh & or other countries where there are little to no worker's rights.
277Victor Martinez: Here's my question. Is it really good for the economy to protect jobs in industries that are not profitable anymore?
278Monaleenian: Serge Sean mison Not even close. People come from badly governed countries to well governed countries in order to make a better life for themselves. What is predatory about these trade practices? Which trade practices? All trade is voluntary. If either party to a trade doesn't want the trade to take place, then it doesn't, and the status quo can be maintained. Both parties to a trade only complete a trade if they each feel that they will be better off after completing the trade.
279Brad Smith: 17:43 - Let's be honest, Chevrolet closing down is not a bad thing.
280Brian: Balen Mars  And the chocolate is made from cocoa planted in Ghana and Cote d Ivoire by poor farmers who get paid peanuts while the Swiss make billions.
281N.N.D. S.: I "guess" from customs and organizations to a question that should have a definitive answer... Anyone else seeing a major problem brewing?
282Mirza Ahmed: What a load of rubbish. This isn't about drawbacks of free trade, just whining about China and low-cost manufacturing countries.
283Maverick Majorani: So is Trump doing good for his country?
284Chuck Jordan: The inference that WWII was solely caused by trade tariffs is incorrect. The Allies imposed unsustainable terms in the Armistice of November 11, 1918. Read about it.
285dave lloyd-jones: Good documentary but the title is misleading and the content doesnt do enough to correct the misleading title. None of the problems high;lighted are as a result of free trade (other than perhaps the swiss position) The German bike story was a complete twist and failed to point out that 100% of Germans pay a premium for bikes that would otherwise reduce CO2 etc - So the German inport tax on bikes saves a few german jobs - but cost the overall population much more! The problems highlighted, such as cheap onions into Cameroon are not the result of free trade but rather from the German agriculture subsidies. Cameroon doesnt need an import 'tarrif' but rather an anti dumping or what could;d be called an "anti subsidy correction" so as to correct the imbalance - this would not be a Cameroonian 'import tarrif' (if worded appropriately)
286Jean Greenfield: Very informative ? thanks for this . Everyone should be shown this around the world .
287Urban Lady: Great point!
288foreverseethe: This doc complained of lost manufacturing jobs in 1st world countries but they couldn't find no white man actually complaining of a lost manufacturing job. When talking negative effects of NAFTA on Western countries, it catered to the worst in it's viewers; pride, individualism, exceptionalism, narcissism. It should aim to inform and compare unemployment rates between trading countries and purchasing power parity. In reality, manufacturing jobs is an insignificant loss. "Ongoing debt has long term consequences for America" 12:30...(No explanation). It but doesn't mention the forces that impel an US/EU company to employ Chinese or 3rd world manufacturers and what the business sense is. Nor does it speak of what becomes of ex or would be manufacturing workers. IF... such a person exists in developed countries. It doesn't speak of the newly created, overpaid, cushy service jobs that exist in western countries, evidenced by the development of the NSFW tag in internet culture, hinting at the Billions in lost productivity or unearned wages by 1st world workers horsing around online in The States and the silent epidemic of imposter syndrome in the consciousness of the complaining brats.
289Gua Gua: it's not only consumerism that can change the situation but the elephant in the room not addressed yet is...the stock market. When companies go public, corporate greed dictates for there to be year on year profits and dividends to investors. This forces companies to outsource to other countries for better profits. I haven't seen any reporting on this issue yet.
290ytrew poiujhujyunhbgvfcd: 19:00 1. Americans & Germans hate Chinese production & jobs given to Chinese 2. want to profit from Chinese by selling their goods in China SOMEBODY EXPLAIN THIS TO ME ! Close your borders Germany & USA , lets see how long you live !
291Wheelman Josh: I like how this documentary starts off by saying Donald Trump instituted steel tariffs, when it was in response to other people's tariffs on our goods in the first place.
292Kofi Annan: Nothing to see here. Everything is going according to plan. Keep walking.
293Mark L'Estrange: The 'Buy American' lady wasn't happy that the china was made in China.
294Calys Agora: The only markets that comes even remotely close to beeing free, is the black market for drugs. No states with taxes, government or corporations are free markets. Period.
295tom Dobyns: Free trade is good if it's free. No one can cheat. If it isn't free, adjustments need to be made. The US is about to make adjustments. China doesn't want to pay tariffs, which is why they threaten a trade war. We cannot continue like we are. AND, with Trump, we are not. If China doesn't get serious about this, they will lose more. Claiming half the world as their own isn't going to work long term. For China to keep their same profitability, so they will add tariff to make up, which isn't good for the country or its people. China is investing billions is automated production facilities to reduce labor costs and improve quality. For US manufacture, the cost is lower which increases profits for multinational manufactures or companies that do a final assembly and can mark goods as "Made in USA.". All components need to be marked with the country of origin. All imported components need to be marked and labeled with the country of origin. The actual cost needs to be the basis for tariffs. Cheaper products will still be made in the China. Much production will return home. More will be sold to China. To claim "Made in the USA", all components must be made in the USA. For labeling to work at its intended purpose. Incumbents being shadow government controlled is the cause of this problem as is the use of politicians as PAC representatives
296Randall Young: its not free trade, its incompetent 3rd world leaders. seriously, in 2018 there is no inter-continental railroad in africa. THAT is evidence of the problem.
297SATAN SOLDIER: this doc is so wrong on many points by omision
298ytrew poiujhujyunhbgvfcd: 1. Germans are angry about USA imposing tariffs on their Steel & Aluminium 2. Germans discriminating tarriffs against China Germans are angry on USA but do the same with China , somebody explain such behaviour. This is ILLOGICAL ECONOMICS !
299acridotherestristis: Flag stiched in the USA, polyester made in China!
300Superior Being: America's rejection of anything that resembles socialism has left most of its industry unprotected, they subsidise the production of corn and I don't see those folk closing the farms.
301Senaleb: That's actually wrong. I can tell you the furniture made in the United States back in the 50s is infinitely better made than anything you can get today. I still have furniture from my grandparents...that is made with you know...actual wood..as opposed to compressed wood shit we get now. It's actually quite heavy to move as well.
302BWreSlippySlope: If the ladies are buying American what are they doing Walmart. They have a corporate office right in China of license to sell there.
303sanjuansteve: Consumers pay tariffs. It's just more taxes, but with more corruption. Tariffs are but tools of inequality.
304Staremperor: From Czech Republic. I'm advocate for free trade. But mainly for fair trade. Here in EU, farmers are oversubsidised enormously and that is making it unfair. Unfortunately, there is no political party, that would like to change it. There can't be one (on national level). I hope, that this will change in future, because free trade brings prosperity, but it has to be fair in order to bring prosperity to ALL not just to few states or socioeconomic classes.
305Documentary Life: ???DW
306mark banana: propaganda
307atomiron G: Traders and Corporations win. Workers lose. Even Chinese workers lose because they slave themselves to the rest of the world. Let rich be richer, workers be slaves.
308KL L: island mentality ！There is no such thing as a trade war， wake up ppl! The main reason for Trump's fight against China Cnanda and even EU for playing the trade war which is nothing about economy but Iran and raping the Middle East. Nothing to do with trade, the trade war is a cover that All trade wars are obfuscation. Air strikes Syria is the best evidence as their conspiracy.
309Wolf Gang: the poor and illiterate suffers most
310Grizzly: EU has to take their cut on everything. LITERALLY! EVERYTHING
311Denise Proxima: chbrules You need ressources. The people will fight for the ressource. And there will always someone who is cheaper. In the end the consume will break.
312Lion Jr: DW Documentary don’t compare Europe’s large scale industrial farming vs Africa’s village farmers who nearly have tools for farming They are large food companies in Africa that also participate in industrial farming !!!! So don’t show Africa in the villages ...
313Wodan Ymir: Zero sum games Folks! Zero sum games!
314Spam Sandwich: remarkable journalism
315Minh Duc Pham: the tariff should be redistributed back to their losing job employee as a way of compensation for their lost job.
316Andrey Mantulo: Please always add subtitles
317Ahmed Al Masud: Love your documentary on business field....thanks for your efforts DW
318Woken One: Holy crap, FREE TRADE is obviously the best approach but that doesn't mean you can't do it wrong. Just improve it instead of jumping wagons everytime something is not quite right.
319Yon S.: I don't think DW understands economics...sad
320Foomanlol: These days, Honda and Toyota both have factories in North American... Lot's of Japanese cars are being made in the USA.
321Gunpowder & Lace: Manuel Jose How do you figure that? Criticizing US trade protection while applauding EU trade protection isn’t what I’d call “balanced”.
322andre madeira: Money is what is all about. Remove capitalism and all the other sectors thrive. Health,local economies, environment, social and cultural history etc. Money is cancer
323Logical1: Wonder if the made in the USA label is just placed on it? If you want people to buy more expensive made in the USA products people need their wages to be lifted as well. It doesn’t make sense otherwise. It would equate to more debt.
324Tanit Thamakaison: Because old they said "there is no trade without war, no war without trade".
325DW Documentary: Hi Mark, you really know them all: Marx, Hegel, Hitler and us...congrats!
326Jeff Banner: Most Countries or people that I have spoke to from those Countries teach or program there population to not buy American Products,but yet are Trade Deficit is what is Helping there Economy
327Thabo Malete: Amazing documentary, very insightful
328Calys Agora: Well, riddle me this, when has true free trade ever existed?
329Zockopa: Free trade means effectivly free movement of capital. And that moves were the biggest profit can be made. So its obvious who wins and who looses. And that whole thing was put in motion in the seventies not only as a means of maximising profits,but also to curb blue collar workers influence through unions on politic decisionmaking.
330cfcreative: Such a good documentary. I wish the Canadian CBC would put out something like this instead of the "we are so fortunate" self massaging crap we get.
331Sosoma Obi: Globalization needs to be questioned, everything told to us as Africans by the West needs to be questioned...
332Field: You cannot enter into a partnership if the two parties are not equal in stature. African countries should trade strictly within the African Union as they are now otherwise this disgusting exploitation will just continue.
333Fatehjot Singh: Animals deserve a life without genocide, be fair, be vegan, it works all over the world and is the healthiest diet humans can follow
334Katwere James: Thanks, cool Doc
335Norman Macritchie: For trades works no good 1 third people live in shit,live on hand out all over world,some retire people??
336DANTHETUBEMAN: if it was "free trade" it would be well,,, free , and no trade law would be needed, no treaty theft would be used. what a oxymoron this one is, what a theft, and what do the 99% see out of all this/ record cooperation profits and record unemployment and low wages.
337rihardo123: US destroy economies? then why most of Europe flock to US seeking American dream in 19ST?
338Levine Levine: @1:05, DW narrator said, "Free trade destroys livelihood at home and abroad." That statement is the opening salvo of DW's propaganda paid for by special interest groups. Real free trade operates without the participation and interference of government regulations. In the real free trade world, there is no need for NAFTA, WTO, or other bogus acronym that speciously signifies a free trade agreement. Long before there was a trade treaty between kingdoms or governments, people traded freely across the land and sea. These free trades brought prosperity and higher standard of living to sellers and buyers. Then came the special interest groups that seek trade advantage for themselves through the use and abuse of government power. Today, government officials negotiate and sign international trade treaties for the benefit of their respective special interest groups whose political and financial support appointed certain politicians to high government post. In Japan, the Japanese rice farmers formed a powerful political organization that elected corrupt politicians who imposed high tariff against imported rice. Texas rice shipped across the Pacific Ocean to Japan would still be 1/8th the price of Japanese cultivated rice but for the punitive tariff levied on imported rice. Japan also levies heavy tariff against the import of US and European passenger vehicles at the behest of Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Daihatsu, Suzuki, and Fuji Industry. Meanwhile, the US government imposes a 30% tariff on all imported pickup trucks at the behest of the three domestic pickup truck producers. For the past several decades, all Brazilian passenger vehicles burnt a mixture of gasoline and ethanol as the nation fermented its large production of sugar into ethanol. Consequently, Brazil produces more and cheaper ethanol than USA. The American producers of vehicle ethanol successfully lobbied the corrupt US government to impose tariff against Brazilian vehicle ethanol. Today, they even received ethanol subsidy as a bonus gift courtesy of the US taxpayer. The least known and the most onerous US tariff are the ones USA levied against imported dairy and farm products courtesy of the powerful and influential 'Farm Belt' States such as Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. In summary, the primary beneficiaries of a trade treaty are the big business , labor union corporations, the wealthy investors, and the corrupt politicians. The losers are the consumers. Generally, the average person receive marginal to negative benefit from a trade treaty. Trade treaty benefits special interest groups. Free trade benefits the general population.
339James Suhr: And NZ does not?
340Ukrainianification: I do t see nothing wrong with protection of your local manufacturers. It’s the right thing to do or Chinese cancer will take over the world
341Black panther: I feel sorry for us in africa..bcoz we dont manufacture but just produce..we grow 80% of worlds cocoa.but only account for 3%of worlds chocolate industry..maybe our farmers should go on a 5 year break n see how the billion dollar chocolate industry will collapse
342FellTheSky: but why is it only bad when trump does it? ?
343Re Member: The documentary doesn't use any of the relevant economic knowledge we have and is biased very much towards protectionism through the people it interviews. It doesn't mention even once the concept of comparitive advantage, how much welfare has been created by GATT and WTO through the massive decrease in tariffs, or endogenous growth theory which shows that trade increases growth long term.
344bishap global86: All countries should have tariffs like USA against CHinese goods
345D.R.S. de M.: free trade isn't for free, there is always a price when it comes to trade.
346Joseph: GERMANY have TARIFF against OTHER COUNTRIES but argue AGAINST USA'$ TARIFF ONTO GERMANY!!!??????
347Elder Moose: For me the most ironic thing is how free trade effects immigration, My parents immigrated to America because, American and European imports destroy any attempts at a self sustaining and competitive domestic economy. Forcing us to seek economic opportunity in these very countries only to get there and be told we need to leave, or we should make our home countries better ourselves. All the while these western nations through economic maneuvers basically block our nations from ever being able to be self sufficient enough to focus on these basic social improvements.It's rather hard to built rods with no tax revues. Even more ironic is this has basically forced allot of African nations to accept chines aid in the form billion dollar infrastructure projects. So now Africa is becoming more dependent on China leading the western powers to label this as Chinese Neo-colonialism. The only consistent theme here is some greater economic power seeks to subjugate Africa to secure their status in the world. I guess worst of all by virtue of Living in America i'm complicit in this whole mess.
348Michiel Van Kets: not 1 mention of the fact that there's no free trade within the usa itself; taxes, regulations, unions, permit, licenses; that's what destroyed your economy ...
349Abdulkadir Can: is there any available Turkish Subtitle ?
350Tony Chalmers: Their should be no tax between countries for goods. We pay enough as it is . Why should i pay for more than what the item costs. Its not fair on the consumer.
351Leonard Limo: Kenyans need to watch this... Very intricate
352Ralph Lamb: Very interesting! Learned a lot. Thanks
353marko kundih: we have depleted world . and who spend the most ? and how work gives you money? world is upside down .. hate me all you want its a fact .
354Gman Supreme: Great stuff. Makes one think.
355Eric S: I think it's unethical for the EU to export produce to a place like Cameroon, but then you also have to ask yourself why Cameroon signed such a trade agreement in the first place. Either it's still advantegeous for them bottom line or then the Cameroonian government did a really bad job.
356wondertwin: Free trade works between markets that are about equal. It works between Northern America and the EU, but not between a developed nation and a developing nation.
357Moonglow: Wtf with germany lol. Stupid..
358Muyao Tang: If ur country is weak,u got the dirts lol US and EU as well as China are flooding world with their products;funny to see how they talk shit about others did them dirty lmao
359fat fat: No protectionist countries have destroyed the world and dumb politicians who dont do anything about protectionist countries. Free trade is best which is why countries need to join together against protectionist countries like china.
360Dario Zanze: So let's say I decide to produce bicycles in Croatia, and I'm making a complete product. I have to compete with bicycles which are made in China, assembled in Taiwan and tested in Germany, which have "Made in Germany" written over them, and which are cheaper then my bicycles, and they are coming to Croatian market without any import taxes. Let's say I decide to do the same thing Germany is doing, well my country has higher taxes so either I will pay my workers less or my bicycles will cost more. So I'm not going to produce any bicycles.
361dou40006: its not about the size of the government, it is about providing everybody healthcare, education, retirement, functional infrastructures, but i understand it is beyond what your narrow mind can understand, why do you want the germant to change something that works so well for them, and follow the disastrous example of usa where people can't afford education healthcare , retirement, decent food, but they are told they are in the richest and best country in the world? keep your shitty brutal system and leave the successful german system alone, ok ?
362S M: GOD BLESS the entire team of DW Documentary because it is the ONLY channel / platform that produces 1st & disruptive content, time and again - surpassing all odds!
363Randall Moore ao: NONE? No one in Philadelphia is working?
364Felipe Accioly: Not a very good documentary , looks more like a propaganda piece. Lots of preaching to sell the general idea but no quantitative data analysis. Also some causal nexus are at least questionable, as the one embedded in the statement that protectionism is responsible for WW2.
365bassbuckmaster: The reason is western countries are the only ones playing by the rules, plus they get handicaps. And on top of everything we give them trillions in aid. The globalist won't stop until western countries are beneath everyone else.
366D Jack: Forcing poorer Black African countries into free trade agreements. The E.U. wouldn't try this with Arabs in the North.
367tom Dobyns: Beware the intentions of China. They are not your friend. They are not trying to help you. They are not telling the truth or acting in your best interest. They're trying to gain control by what ever method necessary. The CCP i s"resuming" power and control. We know what that means. They have taken over Tibet and parts of India. They refuse to deal honestly with the USA on trade. They claim ownership of the Entire South China sea and all of it's assets. Beware. US citizens need to return home. US companies need to leave China. China has set itself on world domination by the CCP. The Chinese people say so.
368annihilationHaven: Again, you fail to mention the overarching economic principle causing this mess globally: the objective of aggregate economic growth. Also, you neglect to mention the correlation between standard of living and population density. There is a sweet spot for standard of living as population density rises, but if it becomes too dense, standard of living falls. As standard of living falls, the value of each individual also falls. This is why we need to switch the objective to aggregate productive efficiency. Lowering prices and increasing quality so that everyone can enjoy a much higher standard of living. Unfortunately for the power brokers controlling the supply of money linked to our birth certificates, that means they're going to have to do some work for a change.
369palmolive2005: It's socialist propaganda.
370Readmore Books: Donny is at least doing one thing right!!!!!
371NO Nonsense: Overall message that "Poor countries are "also" suffering due to developed countries is good. But I personally feel this report is quite incomplete as they did not visit china and see their point of view, all countires who have great + surplus are one or other way making others lifes diifcult
372Denise Proxima: 876beauty In the developed countries only a few are richer. The rest have the same problems -austery-mini wages.
373spex357: Free trade for the banking industry means free from regulations and we can see how that would work out.
374dmaster225: So companies would hire slave labor from china just to get profit. Corporations are truly evil. And this world is set so that evil is rewarded while good things are punished. Whoever is making these laws has no concept of justice.
375Joe Wood: Every think in the world today is wrong, for the simple reason the human race has based its policies on endless growth the problem with that, is you do not have endless space to operate a system of endless growth in. that's why you're coming unstuck because you are refusing to recognise where you live, which is a limited space you're not intelligent enough to grasp that reality, you have only got to listen to yourselves speak, you've only got to listen to your politicians speak, to prove what I have just written is true. what you are trying to do is to break the laws of physics, you will fail , you are failing, the evidence is all around you to show you are failing to see or understand, the trouble is the human race is so greedy and selfish and stupid, it point-blank's refuses to recognise this. I will prove it to you all by asking you one simple question, let's see if you have the intelligence to answer it then have the intelligence to then understand why you have all these problems and they are growing. for answering the question should be simple what is not simple is acting upon the answer to this question. Do you believe you can endlessly put something into something that is not endless YES or NO. If you are as intelligent as me, then your answer will be NO you cannot endlessly put something into something that is not endless, it's not possible. But if you agree with me, then explain to me why then do you all embrace a system that answer is YES to that question. Why do you vote people in to govern you who also believe the answer is YES to that question. so you are all lying, otherwise the world would not be overpopulated with people and we would not be in this situation if you all understood that where you live is not endless therefore logically you cannot operate a system of endless growth in it. The reason the world you know is dying is because the human population is not intelligent enough to understand where it lives, it is also not intelligent enough to work out how it should be living there. So I hope you will remember this every time a disaster happens in your world, where there is food and water shortage, unnatural weather when there is mass starvation, when society starts to break down when your environment starts to disintegrate. it's all because you have no ability to act upon the answer to this question. the In the 70s as a young man I used to say that when I die there will be no intelligent life on this planet, back then I said it as a joke and I meant it as a joke for I was not taking myself seriously. I am 63 years old now and looking at you lot and the way you are behaving. I cannot say that as a joke any longer.
376Anyone _: Who cares. Fact is China made 4.6 trillion off ridiculous tarrifs we accepted from them for the past two decades. Trump is doing right.
377Artemirr Lazaris: The system of the parasite is teh taxation system in which wil lcause war, before income tax thigns were far better. Taxation wasa calling or balance this bullshit has caused much nononsense.
378Andrii Muliar: The planet is under siege by the populist and corrupt governments. We are, who get most benefits in our lives from corporate culture have to put constraints on government power. Let corporation rule and change the world!
379Ishan Bansal: +Wendy Regis umm bro just think about your comment for a second richest? Nope nope nope apple alphabet together alone are worth more than resources real value if companys pay there taxes in africa ( value addition matters)
380d d: as a chinese I also not want working in those bloody terrible manufacture factory. so don't blame chinese. blame those greedy government officer and government relate business man. I think every thing make in china is not good to chinese people.
381Ma Cas: Probably corrupt politicians agreeing to everything a world power told them to agree to
382Red Bear: I too made an exception and recently purchased a beautiful Volvo.
383arxdeath: And exactly why should they choose for everyone else? Shouldn't the consumers decide what they want to buy? These producers should market their products differently as cruelty free, high standards and charge the premium for that, and consumers should decide what they want.
384Earth is Our Home: No matter what, there is always poor people and rich people. similarly rich country vs poor country. Its a cycle and we have to accept it. Originally, western countries have all the technologies and made some goods like cars and exported and became rich. now its opposite now eastern countries are catching up and learned the game in last 50 years. in next 50 years eastern countries becomes rich and west become poor. Again companies moves back to west. (east or west or north or south) irrespective of country every company always want cheap labor and high profits. if everything is imported it means that country becomes poor and then becomes cheap labor and which attracts companies - no one can stop this. in 1500's India has 23% of world GDP according to British and French Records. in early 1940's its GDP is 1% We all are just part of this cycle. some time low tide sometimes high tide. Again free trade is introduced to the world by west to sell their cars and other manufacturing goods. So its their own game which is hurting them.
385LN: I can’t imagine any citizen (regardless of country) having any issue against another country and their citizens. However, these trade deals are not about fellow citizens, they are about the elite siphoning off the profit from citizens around the world. The sooner we recognise this the better!
386velchev1: i put Made in USA on all my fаке prоducts
387ryan cliff: Look at the compassion of the woman in the purple top. She is a true American Hero. God Bless her. :)
388s3xyScorp: 18..the lady promoting buy American while driving Chinese made Volvo is quite a hipocrat,,why not buy Tesla the only American car made with american parts..
389ray ray: So the American Bike supplier doesnt want the chinese to flood the market but he's ok with using loopholes to flood with the market with chinese made bikes himself
390Unreliable Narrator 66: Porcelain was invented by Chinese, then European traders stole the secrets of its manufacture to produce it locally in Europe. Shall Chinese demand IP royalties from European makers to offset tariffs? And how about paper? Or printing and movable type? I'm sure Europeans have another explanation.
391Gypsy Traveller: WTF!!! Cameroon gets onions form Netherlands, while eastern Europe gets chinese onions. Is Cameroon richer then E.Europe?!!?
392solomonarbc: Those 99% of the economists agree that "trade" is good. Whether it's free or not so much is a matter of circumstances. They also say the flexible exchange rate is good for "free trade", but the Renminbi (Yuan) is still not.
393LibertyJava: For a Government it makes no sense to punish income with Taxes, only to protect against invasion should a Government justify its existence, and that includes economic invasion.
394Science for Life: People here commenting how DW docs like this not bias. Just like free trade is never free, there is no such thing called unbias documentaries. This documentary is highly anti-Chinese and anti-free trade. It is not China's fault that a lot of people in Europe and America don't subsidise their industries like Chinese do. It is not China's fault countries like Japan and Canada have a huge decline in birth rates. You don't have enough children to grow your population so you blame China for their population growth? Just like Europe is putting pressure on Cameroon, China and USA can do the same to other smaller countries.
395foreverseethe: this documentary is 24 years too late.
396贾尤佳: always the strongest makes the rule, there is no so-called fair.
397BADGUY 1: EVERY country has the RIGHT and DUTY to control trade in its own venue. Anything else is just propaganda pushed by imperialist countries like Japan...China..Germany. YES...the imperialism of the 18th and 19th centuries..is STILL alive and well...even today. It's just implemented with slanted trade rules rather than uniformed soldiers.
398YUSKHAN: The EU is a nasty organisation
399Danny Voight: Anarchy of production and capitalism in general is idealist. Our problems won't be spontaneously solved by altruistic people on the top. We need coordination, complex event processing, interdisciplinary teams that synthesize research, data, processes, procedures, etc. Competition leads to filling every little niche with absurd and useless products, buildings, and jobs just for the sake of reproducing capital which is a spiraling out vicious cycle in the bigger picture. People are also cultured into wanting to become more like the bourgeoisie, who benefit off of the vicious cycles that keep people in poverty and the extractive destruction of the Earth system and thus don't care or deny the reality of these things. These are the people who own our means of production, survival, and solving the crises that affect all life on the planet. Capitalism is riddled with these contradictions. Less time working bullshit jobs and more time spent doing things that are actually meaningful to people and considering the total human energy and willpower left after slaving away to actually think, imagine, create, collaborate, and the like is very relevant. Not only could we produce everything we already have if we wanted, we would produce it for everyone instead of just higher classes and we would produce less garbage, less absurd and poor quality products, less bullshit jobs, and more of what is actually practical if people owned the means of producing these things and people decided where the wealth went, how it circulates, what problems it solves, etc. People don't screw themselves. The basic contradiction of capitalism —the contradiction between the social nature of production and the private capitalistic form of appropriation. Try applying stuff like complex systems science and systems engineering to these things and see even more contradictions. One would be the idea of endless economic growth with limited resources and space when dependent on complex and fragile ecosystems and landscapes. We are able to understand complex systems because we now have computers powerful enough to run the simulations and crunch the data. We would do the same with our socio-economic system by synthesizing science, engineering, planning, economics, civil engineering, and what have you. It's a matter of networking, actually giving people real systemic feedback instead of bombarding them with advertisements and bullshit all day, real cooperation, and science-based solutions that can even be aided by computers or dare I say artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can be distributed as well. Something to think about.
400Muyao Tang: Yea...well,In the video,EU products flooded the African market,and guess those black workers are not as important as noble white german lol
401mel saint: They transferred slavery and pollution to China and they're still not happy with it? I really doubt that they want those slave jobs in the first place.
402G June36: non White nation impose tariff = evil White nation impose tariff = fair
403野村ERIK: "Let's tax you for NOT buying inferior products..."
404jacob nygaard: The presenter really has a smug voice and attitude, blaming the immigrant crisis on world trade inbalance seems a little far fetch and cast doubt about the correctness of the whole piece.
405MamaLuigi908: 11:12 For some reason I found his intro funny.
406黄碧玺: And Donald Trump called for “fair trade” now,lol
407Unconforming Truther: And it's never free trade cos otherwise Africans would be pushed and given the resources to invest in the west and east for a change, "it's Economic hegemony and domination, pure and simple".
408Holybail Jung: palmolive2005 wrong wrong. It's macarthyism and trump propaganda. Trump, because it means i want your money, regardless of international law, wto rules, and sovereignty rights. Macarthyism is because of attributing all unproven or rather one sided assertions of wrong on another--name tagging make famous by infamous narroe minded american self interest politicians. So far other than the brilliant petrodollar freeloading by kissinger, there is no more kissing angels by yhe u-s.
409Mohamed Farah: Amazing decumentry and thank you DW, Free Trade is great for developed countries but not developing countries!
410Kalydosos: *C R* Spot on mate, it's about time someone said this.
411Nair Ferreira: fulling the world of garbege
412Randall Young: Africa needs to begin to work together and use the EU/US - Chinese rift for its own gain. If Africa was to work together, and use its natural resource richness as leverage against this protectionism, and chinese need for penetration into foreign markets they could begin to close the gap economically
413mikkel thybo: To all the people saying this african chicken farmer should just change and grow something different: People like chicken! would you want to eat deep frozen imported chicken every time you want chicken? Nothing beats fresh chicken. The frozen garbage is cheap AF but you're never going to enjoy eating that.
414Martin Sahagun: how funny is the American lady who only buys Made in America, driving a Volvo hahaha
415A Bradey: Western Nations are hypocrites.
416Ire Min Mon: You have low unemplyoment in Poland and decent growth, you're well off.
417Alasdair Church: It takes a special kind of mental gymnastics to make an entire series of documentaries addressing the inherent problems of modern capitalism without mentioning the word capitalism once.
418Donald Scott: WE NEED MORE AUTOMATION TO SHUT DOWN THE CHINESE THREAT TO OUR ECONOMIES AND SECURITY!!!!!!!
419Gaurav Dudi: Losers @ 19:00
420ClarksonsinUSA: Bretton /Woods has outlived its usefulness,it was designed to help rebuild Europe/Japan and tie them in treaties against the Soviet Union .. The American market is the only Market that Matters,Europe/East Asia are in a demographic/Economic Death Spiral.. Its time for America to look after its own Interest!!!
421Truthfears Guilty: ALL LIES, LIES TO ALL.
422kodomotachi1: We made, fed and expanded this mythical monster. Now, we have to live with it... until we discover a way to bring it down. Who'll be our St James against this dragon?
423CBS197: How does this protectionism make it fair or even? It only makes it more expensive for businesses that are unviable in a genuine market. China are the manufacturers for the world. Get used to it, adjust and adapt or you are doomed as a business. Big Brother will only shelter you for so long! I say this being someone who has been greatly effected by it and a manufacturer not in China.
424Ja mes: You cannot stop the one world system, just accept it and bow down
425Agilaos Haitis: Whats with the fucking music so loud... You know it overpowers what people say...right? So retarded and such a turn off
426Lion Jr: woow love videos like this teaches the real world aroound us... not watching tv
427Ch V: DW, you documentaries are always based on fact and fair. The American is the opposite, especially under Trump. Thanks.
428Matt Faraday: Ah yes whatever it says on a Chinese label must be the truth... let's tax it at that rate. facepalm....
429Blockchain Bot.: China and China,sigh...corporations and companies need to wake up already there are other countries than China.
430oliver santiago: The means of production has been purposely reduced to hinder the economic growth in most 1st world countries, this is part of the plan to destroy the sovereignty of western countries by the UN and EU. They want to set up totalitarian regions. The EU is using the tip toe totalitarianism to destroy Europe. We the people of Europe are not blind nor stupid. The downfall of the EU is just around the corner.
431Tony Neptunes: Great Documentary As Always @DW Thx
432DAT TAPE: Thank you for REAL news. We Americans get a lot of fake hate news on our mainstream "news" channels.
433DAT TAPE: hey, I sensed a little biased in the reporting. video says American crops are subsidized by the govt? well, it's also true that many countries do not have the climate, land, technology, or willingness to grow certain types of plants anyway.
434Brian: As an African, I must commend you on being unbiased. You should also cover how the USA recently threatened Rwanda when they wanted to put tariffs on imported clothes in order to revive their local industry.
435#Triggered: My Oral B toothbrush is made in Germany. I was very surprised that it wasn't made in China
436Rudy Utomo: There is no national products, everything become global and Trump doesnt know how global trade works!
437Ron Clark: Germany just does not like that the USA will not be stolen from by the EU and others any more. Tough crap people.
438bareftsanger92: So Trump is right!!!
439Er ic: She bought a Volvo and she used to sell cars. I guess she knows how far down American cars have fallen.
440Nidal Islam: The trade deficit - debt connection is faulty logic. This documentary oversimplifies unethically.
441solomonarbc: There's also the advantage of keeping and developing technologies in the local company/country. When you buy a local bike for 120$ there's a high chance an employee of the company will earn close to the 20$ to go to the yoga class either way. On the other side, the 100$ imported bike, transported from the other side of the globe, might have a specially diminished customs value as an export stimuli, to avoid a part of the taxation. If your Government (the country of import) expects such a move it will adjust the customs value and subsequently the VAT or Excise taxes (valid for free trade) or, demand the full payment when exporters have the VAT reimbursed. Whether it's a fair reaction or an over-reaction you are entrusting the state with a volatile taxing system, so that it tries to fix the economic mess even further, because through trade deficit there is an outflow of money for such an unhealthy investment such as buying a bike you are going to use maybe once a few years.
442Carl Lee: Very informative The EU and the WTO are applying double standard developing countries in Africa needs home market protection against foreign imports dumping to destroy local markets and jobs
443fj: I like free trade Who give a fuck about american or european bike manufacturers if chinese can do the same quality (or close enough) at a cheaper price ? This is how the world work, cheaper win and the intrest of the majorty (consumers) over the intrest of the few (businesses who cant compete)
444WHO TOLD YOU THAT!?: And the second lady they interviewed from Philadelphia where they went to target she’s absolutely NOT living in Philadelphia Pennsylvania yes Philadelphia NO!!
445Igor: The problem isn't free trade, it's income disparity (which free trade exacerbates). If you just taxed the rich and used the money on infrastructure projects you'd have both cheap goods and jobs.
446Arun Sundaram: 17:27 picks up china and says China lol
447Mimi Jeff: +Gunpowder & Lace EXACTLY!! When I SAW those comments I thought, stupidity is alive and well .. and propaganda is fed like powdered milk through their hated plastic straws!!
448G Money: When China uses slave labor it makes it hard to compete. However quality is still found in the West but China is catching up.
449MrPeachblossom: free trade suits the giant conglomerates not the people competitors just bought out and shut down free trade my @@@@
450Car Pro: Very informative documentry. Thumbs up to DW
451Love Spirit: Funny... they only import cheap goods into black and brown countries and make it illegal for the locals to benefit from selling local products. Stop buying and only share everything. That will eliminate this issue. Get off of money and consumerism. GlobalSharingCommunity.com
452Gunpowder & Lace: solomonarbc Hate to break this to you, but people in the US with an income in the top 10% pay 2/3 of all income taxes. The bottom 50%, or people with an income below the median, only contribute 3% to the federal coffers. Hate on their success all you want, but they’re the ones footing the majority of the bill for your roads, schools, welfare and anything else federally funded. If you get an income tax return every year, then somebody else’s money is taking up that slack. But you can just keep hating on them for having more than you. That’s not childish at all. ??
453lppoqql: Uneducated idiots always bitch about "Made in China" being "cheap. That only shows these are cheap people buying cheap products. China can make top quality products (Dji drones, iphone, Huawei, all your laptops etc). The reason these idiots complain about Chinese product quality is because all they buy are cheap shit from the dollar store, so they think Chinese products are low quality LOL. Too many idiots like that.
454jackliu239: We need to protect our industry from the unfair cheap Chinese imports.... how dare the African farmers impose unfair tariff on our agriculture exports!!!! This needs to stop Free Trade is important!!!
455Gregg Levin: The cows of Sweden live better than most USA citizen's.
456Nigel Palmer: It seems to me Labour is the main cost so automation is the key to beating price then the cost moves to Power and materials then the profit has to be given to ppl who need the goods but don't have the money because a Robot is doing the work, I know we all know this 40 years ago we were told this was gonna happen Elon Musk is forcing our civilization forward with shear force of his character but we need something to force our 1% to invest in automation and governments to force through system that distributes the goods, we ain't lazy and I ain't asking for something for nothing when i started i was a skinny little kid and all I wanted was to prove I could do the job and I don't remember working with many lazy bstrds, Ive know kids that made a living with robbery but offer one of them a job building something and its jumped on all they want t do is earn and do a decent job, but we ain't gonna compete with Robots so if the 1% cant think of something sensible to do with there wealth something will have to give and I don't see much in the way of mercy coming from ppl whose suffered through lack of money.
457******: i do appreciate this documentary. thankyou
458rick santos: The Cameroon piece, Women in the Village seem to do all the planting and a quite a bit of the work. Where are the men? Also WTO is a Cartel, but not to protect the people in the Western/powerful (they are been screwed over). It only benefits the Globalist Bankers / CEOs and Million/Billionaire Club folks (top 5%). All nations should seek to be heavily self-sufficient on key goods and services...
459Balen Mars: Patrick, here's another example of why the Swiss don't need to work. Based on recent researchers, like Leif Wenar's Blood Oil, only about 5% of the stolen money is returned by Swiss authorities, this's become a kind of accepted standard by the western countries, they see it fair. Swiss authorities provide full privacy and protection of the thieves around the world who bring money onto the country and toughest penalties to those who reveal this thuggery. This is not something of the past, it's increased and expanded all the time. Other western countries do the same, including US, UK, Germany, and, of course, France https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-44654931
460Skyler dawn: stupid american, this woman has money finacial power to buy american not like most of american looking for cheapest price.... just shut up you live in paradise
461just4you: Great documentary , I feel somehow "protectionism" is somewhat similar to "socialism" , which both sides are making goods domestically
462Director Lunchie: hmm, Fairness? I wonder the true definition of this word. The West is gaining the benefit of being able to affford everything they were used to, because everything is made in the Third world or China's cheaper labour, but they are also blaming the cheap labours for taking their jobs away... well you can not have both!
463Dave Parsons: Haha, I don't think I want to hit the highway on that African made high powered motorcycle.
464lou: +Mark Heimiller Well, I thought you had something there, but in the end you didn't.
465Eliakim Mwajumwa: Very educative
466TheOerdin: This video is very one sided. It never spoke with low to medium income consumers who see their cost of living and purchasing power rise dramatically due to free trade bring lower prices.
467BUSH MAN: I keep saying this ALL THE TIME. We as Africans honestly have ZERO beef for colonization AND slavery, we really don't want aid or money or military power etc. I'm not saying that's not useful, but it's rather crippling. We just need ONE thing and one alone! An open, honest, respectful, transparent, and fair business relationship. That's it! This is ALL we need. Colonial rulers pretend they didn't build their empires on our backs but that's okay...just allow us to rebuild what is broken. Africa has all it can ever need on the continent, in a couple of decades we will not only be a competitive powerhouse. Only Africans will rebuild Africa #Africanism
468Calys Agora: Moot point. EVERY media outlet on the planet is better than the BBC/CNN/CNBC/CBC/ABC/FOX tabloid garbage "news".
469Joey Jia: that probably was the wage 10 years ago, today most Chinese workers get at least $3 per hour, and still is getting harder and harder to find workers at this price...
470Gunpowder & Lace: A country that can’t feed itself is a weak and vulnerable country. All first-world countries protect their food production. The alternative is to be at the mercy of other countries. Nobody wants that, though most third-world nations are in that position. Countries like Zimbabwe and Venezuela learned the hard way what happens when you don’t protect your agricultural industries.
471kevinmsft: 2 sides of the coin: if the country is too protective, even average consumers get impacted (you are basically paying for the artificial high wage of your neighbors), for example goods like TV and cars and bicycles and food are so much more cheaper in US than in Europe.
472Marshal Ironsides: No. No. No. No socialism for you. Marx was wrong. You're wrong for liking Marx. Stop it at once. No, really. Stop.
473Irish Stock formerly LD Y: The BIG money racket.....only the rich get richer.
474Blacks vs Everybody: They destroy economies while they whine about immigrants
475Handed to You: President Trump is addressing the trade imbalance now. There will be some short term pain but ultimately there will be new trade deals cut that are far more favorable to the US. It is time the US stop being the worlds ATM.
476Vanna6345: People no longer want first class at high cost. The want cheap stuff Now. If world trade was equatable now one would bother... :0)
477DW Documentary: Thank you, GANGA SINGH Rathore for your feedback! We hope you will like some of other documentaries as well. Stay tuned for more!
478Ire Min Mon: Threatened with what? They're just gonna put tariffs back, the can't do anything else.
479perry reasch: nothing is free
480wibarm: Cannot blame Trump for fighting for his country. Wait - the U.S. opposition is actually fighting for him to lose.
481Simplon- -B: Well, the US does the same. No industrialized nation is innocent in this playing field.
482TUSHAR RAKHUNDE: best and unbiased thank you DW
483Gerald Davis: If an alien was selling flying cars in a n african country would not that country be better off.
484Vikas Raj Anand: "I'm a nationalist, I'll only buy made in America, whether its food, clothes or anything. I also run a blog you know - spreading nationalism - asking people to buy goods made locally." '.mmm... what about the Volvo in your parking area?' "Oh thats just a small exception, please ignore it." LMAO
485I3VI5: People tend to be against things they don't understand. Free trade is no exception. Most don't understand the benefits, hence they oppose it. It's true, there are side effects to "free trade", however tariffs are not a smart way to fix them because tariffs are a tax on your own consumers (all of them) in order to protect a few local manufacturers / producers. How is this fairer?! It would better and much cheaper for a government to directly help those affected by job losses, like pay half their salaries until they find another job for example. Protectionism leads to complacency and corruption, not development. You may think you're helping the local industry, but in the long term you're harming them.
486Adam S.: ... And yet almost all the things said have nothing to do with free trade. Nothing better for own good-feeling than fighting strawman arguments.
487TerraTN: Freedom of Trade. Free is short for freedom in this case, not having to do with money directly.
488EGH181: If you want to maintain a functioning Social Democracy you can’t have free trade or open borders. It’s a delicate system.
489Whatbettywore: Love DW for good reporting ,there not afraid to criticize Germany
490chris Lambert: On the question of Onions and Cameroon, nothing was said about consumer needs and consumer choice. Surely the poor people in Cameroon would benefit from low cost food !
491FRANNINGER Z: The problem with chinese products is that they are really cheap which is good for value. But, there are alot of downside. One is they break easily. Two is the poor quality of materials used in their products. Three is the sub standards they do to incorporate their products. Such as foods, medicine, raw materials and their steel is sub par against other countries products.
492Halcyon: Plastic manufacture is a massive problem. Once you have produced the stuff it NEVER goes away. The most recyclable plastics can be recycled a maximum of 6 times after that you are left with plastic waste.
493bookashkin: American women picking up a piece of china and discovering it's made in China. Priceless.
494Re Member: Have the makers of the documentary ever heard of comparitive advantage? The documentary get's one thing right, trade is not yet unobstructed. While general tariffs are extremely low as a result of WTO and GATT international cooperation, other barriers to trade such as anti-dumping have become slightly more prominent, though it is not true that they have seen a massive increase. Free trade is a positive force, because countries direct their resources to producing what they are relatively the best at, everyone would be able to increase what they can buy. With trade investment and knowledge flows into countries allowing production of new products or quality improvements of products, which is very good for economic growth.
495Haya Glamazon: Lol the women protesting China are just wasting their time, the nails in the coffin are there
496Talijah talijah: One of the best documentary i have ever seen. DW KEEP ON RAISING THE BAR.
497milan vesovic: There isnt China there isnt USA there isnt Germany. There is only multinational corporations.
498Cris Yorke: If I could scream YEEEEESSSSS on whether it's been a mistake to let China into the WTO. I will do it.
499Suzuki Torben: Very good documentary again.Quality journalism! Thanks!
500ced Mutwali: What a powerful documentary
501afro symphony: Well taiwan will soon be hit by those tariffs loooooool
502enzhus: If you can't be competitive then you should die, that's it!
503Chloe Lin: Powerful documentary. Thank you, DW.
504Tuan Nguyen: Idiot! US request a fair trade. What's wrong with that. Trade deficit bankrupt America while helping poor country grow. Do anyone of you want to do a business with someone that only help them while bankrupt you? This is common sense. China try to buy all media to advocate the unfair trade to US. This clip is the propaganda for China.
505wanelly: Manos Ragiadakos says you the world renown best economist...?
506Scrazzi the Artist: Isn't it fascinating how a few merchants squawk the loudest just because their margins would return to a measly 20%, have to possibly buy American, and eventually would rebuild a middle class manufacturing base. The only time they scream louder is when you tell them they cant have it made in china-mexico and sell it here. ...Where is the goyim supposed to get the money to buy china--mexican made goods with no jobs? For people that didn't have honorary doctorates given to them, from a college no one has heard of, and the cops have not harassed and given them a record yet, THERE IS NO INCOME. No one has pointed out that asian goods crept back up in price, to where Made In USA would be today and there is no money saved by anyone except higher profits for a very small group, 1/10 of 1%ers. I have seen up to 10,000% profit, and the rich got richer, and the middle and lower income goyim lost their jobs, houses, health, political voice, dignity, hope, good benefits, belief that life had some meaning, unions, pensions, credit, etc, etc., but except for a short period, you could buy some cheap walking shoes....... The highest growth periods of the United States were the highest tariff rates. When all the highways were built and infrastructure. And also "BEFORE" the great depression circa 1926. No one thinks about this but that was "THIRTEEN" years after the federal reserve banking act. They of course pulled in the money supply-loans etc. And as for the frivolous drug--alcohol laws, and the "don't check the box laws" where you cant ask someone for their "harassment" record on a job application. So now having to make laws to cover up laws. Because they make 40,000 laws a year in the "Land Of The Free". And the DUI laws ( I've been run into by a lot more sober drivers) possession of a plant, and so on, the anti-patriot act but they were all taught in school patriots were heros, their dads and uncles all probably drank and drove, and all got whipped with a switch from the back yard, remember a country for better or worse will follow their leaders, and when they are all hypocrites, liars, thieves, selfish and more, what you get is what you got!!!
507Ryan G: Why do they keep saying the trade defects causes national debt... that is not how it works...
508brian rodney: A better word than ' free', which can mean ' gratis ', would be unimpeded '.
509Sticks: Look at the poverty liberals and Communism.
510scottab140: Free trade allows a person to get more (value) for their money (output). Consumers pay less 2hole suppliers complain about not being able to charge more. Read Adam Smith's "Wealth of a Nation" and you will about Economics.
511lou: Yes, let's have slave labor. That would make domestic goods cheap. I understand that in China there are prisoners doing work for companies that export.
512James T Kirk: Germany and the EU are as protectionist as they come, but chide America for wanting equal trading terms.
513M MM: The german customs are the worst. We don't ship there anymore. They delay everything forever and the customers complain. A bunch of dickheads.
514Jon LaLanne: None of this is free trade .Sending our manufacturing overseas was not meant to benefit ,it was meant to destroy .
515mayanksezso: Really impressed by African Chicken Market....these chickens have been looked after
516rick santos: Once again Fantastic Doco DW... Great Job (I wish more Western and US media made Docos like this)! Bottom line is Free Trade (absolutely open/free trade) is not free (except for the Elites). Its Not so much protectionism, but Nations should aim for SELF SUFFICIENCY, and only have "freer trade" with stuff they cannot make/create/grown in their own countries/regional and surrounding countries. Also no one talks about the detrimental impact on Mother Earth and the Environment of the deceptive "Free Trade", and also shipping stuff from 10,000 miles away rather than 100-500 miles away. I think eventually things will become more decentraliized and we will go back to more Localism with Some Global Trade... Also our Consumer and Hyper Materialistic Mindset needs to end, and we need to return to a "Needs based Society and Economy".... Also on a slightly different note, the bike example is a good example. Frames in China / Then Taiwan or Cambodia and then Germany. Why not simply make the whole thing in Germany? Also like the Chinese the West should start in a big way subsidising its Manufacturing,
517Egidio: I love free trade, as long as it is free for me!
518Jonathon Tsamantanis: Only thing that should be shared freely is a thing called good idea's
519Stream Seeker: Was he also behind Wolfgang phones that ripped so many people off thinking its German while it was MADE IN CHINA.
520k h: The perspective of consumers being able to buy goods at lower prices, and the effects of those savings, is completely disregarded... HUGE chunk of the picture is missing imo!! At last all of us as consumers benefit from cheap foreign goods. Free trade isn't about everyone being able to produce everything at a profit. Its about efficiency which brings financial prosperity to everyone involved.
521gallego c: free trade between rich and poor is not possible without the rich country taking advantage of the poor ,you can take NAFTA as and example, that trade benefits usa tha most
522Joshua Lifetree: So what is the problem with Trump's system? Is he not doing what everyone else does?
523JA G: I am in Roma, Italy and grapes are 3 Euro for a bundle - if grown in Italy. Purchased from Sudan, a little less. Why would I want grapes from a place who has bad water and war? Why not from the grape region of the world in Italy? I support Italian farmers and don’t buy fruit unless from Italy.
524Love Spirit: Free trade is why many black and brown countries are poor... The import of bananas and diary killed the industry in Jamaica. 70% of chocolate comes from Africa and Africa only makes 2% of the profit? Same for diamonds, and many other wealthy resources from Africa. There is only one simple solution. Stop buying anything and get it free or barter it.
525django priceaction: There should be no exception get rid of the Volvo buy a Mustang
526Wyborg Law: Nice one
527Mike Fitzsimmons: Camera guy has a hard-on for the face zoom in
528PHILIP: The best solution is to remove 100% of all tariffs, and just let everybody choose, where they want to buy their items from, and stop trying to protect producers, who are not able to compete efficiently . Tariffs hurt consumers like u and me the most
529The Onion Cutter: Free trade preaches low prices, but it also preaches specialization. It expects capital and labour to be reallocated into industries a country has comparative advantage, and income will come from producing these specialized goods for the rest of the world to buy. However, realistically, its not easy for workers to be retrained and just suddenly change jobs, which is why we have this never-ending debate on free trade vs protectionism.
530Vivian Lee: Africa keeps screwing themselves over regardless, they don't need the West's help. Even without the west there they will still be in the crapper, so much drugs, disease, and war there it is impossible to do anything else.
531Gene Hicks: jgronin : Bill Clinton did more to hurt the working man than any president. I don't agree with all Trump says, but he is right on the trade issue. He's also right in that we need to do something about the ILLEGALS here.
532Vitabrick Snailslime: Very well analysed. "Free" trade as it is currently practiced serves only to enslave most of us.
533Omega Control: One of the problems with free trade is that there are other factors involved in producing products that the EU or local governments don't control. For example, Europe will have regulations on all sorts of things, like wages, environmental regulations, labor regulataions, etc. These things cost in the west, and create a more expensive product. But in China, they may not even have the same laws/regulations, or possibly not enforce them (gee really?) so, it's not really fair trade is it? If you won't buy a shirt for $5 in your own country because you don't believe the factories in your country should be sweatshops, but then you buy it for $5 from another country where they may actually use a sweatshop, is that okay? but what you can't see......
534Zerozen808: China pays more for suicide nets around their factories.
535Temple Thompson: No such thing as stand alone, that's why we have exports and imports. I hope Trump and everybody with the same attitude wins .
536Milen Nedkov: It's important to protect the local produce
537Manuwela Boy: Very insightful, thank you for kicking my awareness in the butt. This will be cross examined later with other information I gather.
538zerillimassimo: China's move towards liberalizing trade with the US and the EU has transformed it from a poor struggling rural economy to a manufacturing powerhouse where people enjoy a standard of living they could never have dreamed of before
539Bobby: Instead of making cheap items expensive by putting in tariffs shouldn't you make the domestic goods cheap by removing minimum wage and taxes on steel and stuff that makes products more expensive?
540jorden durden: oh look a government agency talking about the problems of free trade what a new look, lmao screw u germany
541flounder: Free trade: bad for local workers; good for the consumer --- unless they are one and the same.
542Kevin Loving: +bldomain I had a Chinese built electric tricycle it started falling apart in a week. First the battery box then the headlight.
543Aleksandar Kolev: unbiased my ass
544moparmon: the owner of the bike shop doesn't look like he rides is own bikes, maybe thats why he said fuck it i'll sell china bikes.
545Matthew Munn: I found the section on the African onions the most interesting. The first thing that came to my mind was isn't it good that a staple food product was 30% cheaper because of more efficient production (even after a steep tariff!). The money saved on onions is no doubt being used to improve the standard of living for all people in the country. There needs to be a very well proven argument that tariffs will indeed improve productivity in poor countries before increasing the cost of food for the general popualtion
546Derick Lewis: I think trade should have one rule. U can’t sell to a country what that country is capable of producing for itself. Period. Copy rights of products should exist for all products including foreign products. And this is exactly how China plays the game minus the copyright because if a product comes in that they can’t produce locally they simply steal the technology. And that’s why I hate China they are just a nation of thevies and wolves in sheeps clothing making free trade a simple loss for all countries bc of corporate greed to sell to that market. Little do they realize they are getting played
547876beauty: yup
548LibertyJava: We used to call cheap sugar, "blood sugar", because it was farmed by cheap slave labor, in 2018 we Call Trump a Tyrant, he would have been called an abolitionist back then.
549malnatik9@Gmail.com: +Mame A Well, since none of the American brands of cars are actually made in the US anymore (been to Detroit lately?), it's not really a reflection on American manufacturing. Almost everything is made in China, or Malaysia, or Canada, or Mexico, and practically nothing is manufactured in the US. They just "assemble" the stuff in the US, and claim it's made in the US, even if all they did was tighten that last nut on the 4th wheel, etc - just as this film showed is happening in Germany, with their foreign produced bikes, that get the German label. American quality is not what it once was, but it's still wildly better than foreign quality. When you bought a washing machine in 1970, when it was still manufactured in the US, you could expect to still be using it 25 years later. Can you say the same now? If you get past the unenforceable warranty period you're lucky, nowadays.
550Erik 567: Open markets are a killer to countries viability. Tariffs are needed. Especially China.
551Tony Low: Fact: There is almost no such thing as where a product is entirely made in today. Take that American flag for an example, the flag itself could be made in the U.S. but the raw material like fabric and thread or packaging material like the printed card and plastic bag might still be made in another country. Oh by the way, Sarah is wearing a smartwatch and I bet it is made in China.
552Joel glassjar: It's good "we" are talking about it..local trade focus with quality imports for all countries makes a lot of sense..China can't be allowed to make every item.
553Robert Maki: At 29 minutes they said the EU stops them from developing their own markets... but that’s not really true,, their leaders are allowing the EU to do it
554Dylfen: Nah, Africa is just too stupid and blames everyone else for there problems... Maybe Africa should join forces and work together instead of fighting amongst themselves. Learn from history, look at the history about USA and Europe. Fighting > reunited > economic growth... I don’t mind immigrants, but I hate cowards and thieves.
555Awal M: Your economic logic is stupid and your model doesn't make sense. Remember that she made much more money (producer surplus) while farming Cameroonian onions. Now she and her village get way less surplus than before. How much in money value would they consume onions with respect to how much they would make while producing them are incomparable numbers with consumption being insignificant. There have to be tariffs on the imported onions and the Chinese motorcycles so as to bring back economic surplus into the country. I am Cameroonian and basically, every sector of production here needs to be protected from Chinese and European products
556James Adams: Heavily biased. I'm half way through, and I've only seen arguments against free trade, "Lost jobs, wage stagnation, deficits," but they haven't advanced even the most basic pro-free trade arguments.
557Sam LSD: The white chicken will cause cancer! Please learn people please teach the Africans to stay domestic. All European produce will cause cancer.
558ryan cliff: See, the thing i understand about Europeans is that they are very intelligent and logical people who follow the law. It's a good thing to have the foundations put into place by the E.U even though they are no angels at all. But the EU will change. Best wishes to my friend in Germany, Lisa, i love you darling. xoxo
559Hassan Diallo: This is the price you shall pay for choosing to live under man-made laws. Do you know what it means for a human being to make a law for another? imagine it please, the ultimate form of slavery, a slavery that many don't even realize they're under; mental slavery. Alhamdulillah for Islam.
560Rahim Laban: Why do African countries lack the political will to protect themselves from unfair trade?
561the rooster: Free trade is the globalist nation destroyers way to get their hands in the cookie jar
562Urban Lady: I would like to see. more about fair trade and how it looks and works, for a good comparison and maybe even a viable future direction.
563Andrew Durot: Another great documentary with balanced views. Dang this is refreshing
564RJSoftware2000: Simple. Buy used not new. Then your American dollars goes into American hands.
565solomonarbc: Subsidized manufacturing is no free-trade either. When German Wind Farms are subsidized one way or another (retooled) you can't expect a similar Windfarm in another EU country to fight for the market.
566Sea Hag π: John This documentary has a lot of propaganda within it...and it's really about big political corporate monster. All the West an d Chin treat Africa and developing countries poorly! This isn't as much about Protectionism but rather the evils if Captalism and the love of money...#Greed
567lou: +Levine Levine Yes, let's do away with OSHA, and let workers get injured or killed on the job. Let's do away with EPA regulations, oh wait, that is already happening under the Trump administrations. Let's treat the U.S. like a third world country where the resource extraction destroys the country country and pollutes, so we can make billionaires who export those resources. Wait that is happening now too. Under the current government, the next time BP or someone else has a major oil spill, there won't be any fine. Maybe the taxpayers will foot the bill for clean up, if you can ever undo all the damage, or there just won't be any clean up. Not a country that will be a good place to live.
568Richard Sci: President Trump is right. Free trade is a myth. American manufacturing industry has been virtually destroyed by cheap Chinese dumping practices. America makes money now mainly from big industries like Boeing manufacturing airplanes, several automobile industries, etc. The rest of the income come from dotcoms like google, facebook, etc. Trump is pushing for zero tariffs. That way foreign goods can come in freely, as much as American goods enter their respective countries. In that case, the best product wins.
569Kevin TheGreatOne: China's domestic market was impacted by free trade 30 years ago. Look at what happens now. Ironic, isn't it?
570Isaac Robin: reductionist and unrealistic. Where are you going to source your energy/plastics/rare earths for batteries, ect.?
571mark rigsby: Boycott china
572S Cin: And the robotics revolution has not even entered in full force yet. Honestly, do we really need all these humans in the planet?
573Senaleb: Just give it time..when China's overall quality of life raises...China is already setting the groundwork to start farming the cheap labor in africa.
574Ancient Apparition: thanks for always considering both sides
575jsph2012: free trade is a bad idea, It destroy the countries economy . People got poorer because they loose job. Tariff protects local manufacturer, the back bone of countries economy
576Kevin Loving: Not illegals who don't want to integrate in their respective host societies. Be whatever religion you want to be but most religions require their followers to respect their adopted governments laws And whatever language at home but when you work in your adopted countries marketplace learn your adopted countries language.
577malnatik9@Gmail.com: Not sure where you are from, but many Americans are quite well informed, and capable of grasping, and explaining in concise language, how this all works. There is also a segment (the minority) of Americans, that falls for whatever tripe the world spews, and It never occurred to me that any of the comments on here were from anyplace but the US, until I hit on yours. Just exactly why is it that foreigners feel compelled, and somehow justified, in lumping all Americans into one, ill-informed, overweight, and obnoxious lump? What did we do to you? Are you a backward, buck toothed, ignoramus who hasn't bathed in some time, dependent on Britain and America to support your way of life, and protect you from yourself? Would you like it if all Americans treated you thus? Perhaps you should bear in mind that your own country (no matter where that is), has it's own lesser and greater minds, and being constantly treated as if you were the lowest of those, may start to wear on the nerves of those who do not see themselves that way. Then act accordingly. (And, if you happen to be from the US - which would automatically relegate you to the "lesser minds" category, pull your head out! If you were to hang out with a slightly more intelligent crowd, you might find your opinion of your own country would improve, and stop listening to those who belittle the 2 greatest countries on Earth.)
578Ghastly Grinner: Isn't China's biggest source of protein Soy?
579CBS197: New Zealand> Its works welll. It works everywhere, except too many people are in denial about the realities of the world. Fools who simply hold their hands over their eyes and pretend they are invisible don't go anywhere, they are just blind to what is happening around them.
580devadethan b: TRADE WAR IS FURTHER INTENSIFYING CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION ALL OVER THE WORLD. Centre of the World Communist Movement. (CWCM). Founder - Devadathan. B.
581iggy fugazi: Cheap imports? $500 who gets the money because it isn't China... how much would the price go up on the bike if the frame were made in America/Canada/Mexico? as opposed to the cost of shipping from China?
582lance ringquist: " you cannot be a environmentalist and be a free trader. you can have a civil society, or you can free trade, but you cannot do both. and this fossil fuel consumption is even before bill clintons chinese communist party ships the stuff to america, China is the world’s largest coal producer, on top of that China is either the largest or the second-largest coal importer in the world market as well. And then on top of that, China is also consuming an increasing amount of oil and natural gas, especially natural gas. And so although natural gas is not as polluting as coal, it’s still polluting. And so it’s expected China will also become the world’s largest importer of natural gas by the year 2019. So you are going to have China to be simultaneously the largest importer of oil, natural gas, and coal.
583John Foley: Everybody who lost jobs to outsourcing will ALL become computer coders, yeah learn to code! That'll save America, Germany etc
584TheFourthWinchester: The Chinese govt is the real villain.
585SteveTheFazeman: The two Hamburg Customs Agents and the man opening the container doors are not wearing hard hats. Surely, they can't be immune to head injuries while working on this terminal.
586Alberto: The problem is not global free trade, as 'this biased documentary pretends. The problem are subsidies to industries that trade globally.
587Lawney Malbrough: Had to like this one. It was ag reat documentry. The truth has been told. Please listen to it!
588Curt Howland: It would be fantastic. Every problem DW cites is caused by government interference, not "trade".
589zoezoe610: Simply put if you put all the fish in one tank then all the big fish will eat up the smaller fish. So it is with free trade when all economies are put into one economic tank and the biggest fish eats all other economies. In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement came into play when the US saw that it would be a huge benefit to flood global markets with it's goods and now it has lost it's edge forever as it never expected a country like China to surpass it.
590Roger K: just4you protectionalism is a big part of social democracy. Not socialism really, socialism is more focussed on workers leading local and domestic production.
591macc240038: The Chinese government subsidizes their industries to the detriment of like industries in other countries and when other countries retaliate with tariffs they complain. People all over the world are tired of their bs.
592Nobody4president: It is the slave wages in China, the lack of worker's benefits, combined with Government subsidies, and lax to non-existent environmental protection, that entices foreign companies to offshore to China for maximum profits. Yet the person who opposes so-called free-trade is smeared as being xenophobic, isolationist, and a nationalist, by globalist neoliberals and their media outlets. Never are the tables turned to where the neoliberal "free-traders" must defend their position on free-trade from the perspective of China's abysmal human rights record, little to no workers rights, and China's environmental disaster. That free-trade is perceived as the moral high-ground is a propaganda coup of epic proportions. This is not to mention that China has done what all nations do with their economic might; they have converted it into military power the like of which has never been seen before. When Lenin said that “the Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them," he didn't realize it would have a tag that read MADE IN CHINA.
593Commentator541: 18:00 hahaha all that talk and then she buys a European car that NO IMPORT taxes are payed on, that is actually owned by a Chinese company, which in turn payed no taxes. She would need to buy a THOUSAND flags to offset the cost of that one car she bought that was made in EU.
594xkguy: If other countries that sell more to us (USA) than we do to them, stopped buying our bonds and instead bought goods from us, all could be well. BUT, they use their income to buy US treasuries and keep the dollar strong and the local currency stays weak. THIS is the problem. The dollar is so strong that few can afford our exports. Free floating currencies could fix the problem. Until then Trump is right to fight for the US to become competitive. The dollar must weaken or the US will remain an importing country with an over-valued currency and ever decreasing industrial base. See Triffin's Dilemma.
595John: This documentary should be shown in all high schools and should be required viewing for discussion in every college teaching economics. Very well done.
596tribequest9: Africans have no respect for themselves, look at how they live then add to that the fact they would rather buy foreign food when clearly they can grow their own....pathetic.
597Wendy Regis: As long as they have corrupt African politicians taking money form them people, it would never cease. Africa is the most exploited and richest but it seems as if they think they need outsiders for some reason. AS long as the whole continent does not stand in unison, this would always have an effect on them in my books.
598Lasha Koshadze: these dummies dont know shit about economy.
599chandan kumar123: ban plastic save environment from india
600No Hope Equals no fear: We need tariffs. This unfair trade is killing us. I can see why germany likes it.
601joe stalin: Mutti Merkel muss weg,,,the filthy Globalist will not win
602Ritchie fabulous: From asia? You mean from China
6031kumokun: ok, but propaganda for what cause or interest group? DW in the pocket of big Cameroonian small-scale onion farmer...
604Gregarious Solitudinist: Destroying the economy of the world to sell cheap crap is not viable. People can afford a $400 bike. If they cannot, let them walk.
605Hever Morales: The American lady is wearing an Apple watch, where is it made? in China
606Marcus Lenkner: So what the bike salesmen in Philly doesnt understand is that he should feel happy selling cheap Chinese bikes. He is litterally making his customers richer. If they can spend 400 on a bike instead of 800, thats 400 hundred they have to take to somewhere else. Hes contributing to making the pie larger for everyone. The guy in germany should be ashamed of himself. Do you think his smaller competitors get the breaks he gets on his imports from Taiwan, I seriously doubt it. He is rent seeking special favors from the government.
6070Clewi0: No tariff it's really an unfair practice, it let's rich countries to spend their money in subsidies, a protectionist maneuver poor countries can't afford.
608Laura Bell: The British will be doomed! The British import because their living wage is £8 per hour and above. Their minimum wage is running near to that too! Without the strong bond of being in a union with European friends they will struggle
609rom usa: you are so right
610hello hun: American slob kids care not about there bicycles they are abused, stolen, not serviced and left in the rain. They are so cheap they are replaced yearly.
611M worr: I just dont know what it is about the Chinese...It is appears they are always undercutting trade and labour even if it means Exploiting their Own people as well. Now, they are even exploiting African nations of their resources.
612Vilius Cekas: Love DW documentaries, seriously. So many so good. Cheers
613Vela van laack: Since when US follows international rules, they wrote them then break them. If it doesn’t benefit America, no point to follow
614WA AB: Over the years, I have listened to and read gazillion lectures by politicians and scholars touting the virtues of free trade. One thing I know for sure, they are all about abstract graphs, econometric arguments and ideological dogmas. The more I listen to them the more unconvincing they get. Even if there were some theoretical justification for it, it is bogus to talk about free trade when we all know not everyone opens their borders to free trade.
615Will G.: America's protectionist policy's led to ww2? I was always told it was because a certain German leader tried to take over Europe. I guess the Victor's rewrote the history book I was using
616kris abe: Apparently we have forgotten Bretton Woods
617Aji Sasongko: Thank you for sharing this unbiased and enlighten insight about free trade.... I hope my country will implement tariff flexibility that brings prosperity to all parties.... Greetings from Indonesia
618George Warren: You can tell it's a German documentary by the overly dramatic music played at inappropriate moments for no particular reason.
619francis802us: Developing countries like us in the Philippines are the ones who is vulnerable by the negative effects of free trade and globalization. For example we had once a thriving textile and shoe industry but since in the 90's when our government enters the free trade agreement, all of these industries that i mentioned are already closed because they cant compete anymore with cheap imports.What in the hell they are bringing cheap imports even if the local industries can provide the demands of the local market. Governments must carefully studied these trade agreements if it is necessary to the needs of their country.
620Nana Bergmann: step by step .. I think We will get abolishment of production "Made in China" one day.. for sure! We just need to start first step.. by paying a little more in prise for a better quality of product and for fair paying jobs in our country..
621Simon Wang: The final decision is made by consumers. If they prefer to save some bucks than supporting domestically made products, let them do it.
622bender banana: There is only one answer to the demise of US jobs,,,, ban all imports from China. Of course China will retaliate and ban all imports from the US,,, so what?,,, This will give US manufacturing a chance to get re-established. It will be a few hard years, but the alternative will be complete loss of US manufacturing and further more, China will own the US. So start thinking of banning all imports from China. Free trade isn't fair trade, never has been never will be.
623jia hao: Because tariff u have to pay taxes to government
624mengfang hu: Chinese here as your big villain. Just want to say that Chinese are so happy that Germany are "dumping" their pork in Chinese market, because that significantly reduced the price of our biggest source of protein. What about the diminishing farm industry and jobs? Well, those are the worst payed jobs in China. By being a farmer in China, your income is generally on the same level with a sub-Sahara African country. Young ppl don't grow things anymore. The only ppl who grow stuff are elders who are retired or about to. There is no lost of jobs because those industries are diminishing on their own anyway since they are extremely inefficient. Just stating the fact.
625Bike Vids: Too bad most of that that stuff in China is made by breaking WTC rules, and by using free prison slave labor of millions of dissident political prisoners. Kind of hard to compete with FREE labor, dumping products below market value into other countries, and WTO-illegal company subsidies. Oh, and WTO-illegal currency manipulation. WTO is the ONLY WTO member which does not have to allow its currency to float freely on world markets like ALL other WTO members. The entire global trade game is massively rigged in favor of China. Trump is right - kick China out of WTO until they comply with the rules.
626Eric Lee: I'm suspiciously interested in where funding for this documentary came from. Hmm.... Not saying I totally disagree with the point though. But let me conjecture this (internationally): First, nationalism, then trade protection, which will lead to war.
627holycrapchris: Tiago: poorer than they've ever been? In the middle ages, almost every person on the planet lived in poverty. Today, obesity affects more people than starvation does. Prices for essentials -- food and clothing -- have plunged in the last 30 years. Heard of China? 800 _million_ people lifted out of poverty. The richest people of the 19th century died from things that the poorest people today can cure for $1 is medication. The rich getting richer does not require the poor to be poorer.
628Kennz Gaming: Everything is made is China. They think that they bought a product made in the US. No such thing. In one way or another, there is bound to be something in that product that is made is China. That may or may not be directly documented, but its there. Do you think that plastic wrapping for that product, no its made in China. It says made in the US but its made in China.
629Michael Thompson: The conclusion of this is a shining example of intellectual laziness. How can this "documentary" truthfully say that free trade polarizes the rich and poor when the film itself underscores that there is no free trade anywhere in the world?!?!? Can't wait for the follow up to this: "Warp Speed polarizes the rich and poor!"
630Jason Wings: Easy to understand, excellent visualisations
631Mohammed Gori: so nice Documentry for world trade style god bless you d, w staff
632Raitzi: Cheap ass countries should be able to compete with low end manufacturing like onions. Their methods just suck as wages are lower in comparison.
633The Federal Farmer: The only way for a market to be fair is if the market is free. (Free means NO government regulations and NO taxes/tariffs; what our Masters call "the black market".)
63433 Precise: Those people who live off onions must have an aromatic tinge to their breath.
635Hemambara kumar: Problems of Globlization
636Dane Prescott: Labor. Cheap labor dominates free trade. So if a domestic industry as basic as clothing manufacture is incapable of competing with a foreign nations cheap labor, it means that the importing nation is going to suffer because millions of its citizens with the same skills are just out of a job. When it comes to innovation and scientific advancement, free trade is meaningless. Some trade needs to be regulated. Some trade will not be regulated, even if governments want to regulate it.
637Alex Pana: don't show this to democrats
638Sántos Pótus: As usual, well thought out and researched informative video while also managing to be equal parts 'entertaining' In sea of vlogging garbage and political propaganda outlets that is in YouTube, this is highly refreshing.
639Yonas Geta: Rich buy made in USA Poor buy's made in China What is the ratio Rich to Poor 1 % to 99%. People don't pretend you are rich when you r poor
640Tom Baker: Trade should be free and open, without constraints, if you have something to offer and people want it, they'll buy it. Don't want a government to add additional costs to it so people will buy a lesser quality local product. Free trade will create a market place where all providers (be it product or services) will need to strive to provide the best quality product, in a world wide marketplace.
641Akbar, Allard Freichmann: The US has a big military and a big domestic poverty. Americans are afraid of socialism.
642Chol Akuany: What a beautiful and educative documentary! Human greed and jealousy will soon catch up with us. Why always China? Because Chinese are resourceful and hard working. How about Japanese? Japanese outclassed other nations in quality products. An educated nation always knows what to do in times of emergencies and always work hard and respect one another to avoid tribal conflicts. It is complicated...life is always complicated brotbers and sisters. Be kind to yourself and your surounding and always work hard so you can provide for those you love. I might be out of topic my people....please forgive me. Be kind and love each other because humans are supposed to live in peace. However, we humans have become dumber just because the uninformed humans believe everything they hear on TV.
643Commentator541: I am for trade and movement of people, but let's mention the biggest producer - China. Everyone critiqued Trump for leaving the ecology pact, when in fact it made no sense. China signed it but doesn't respect it, so all in all everyone does what is best for themselves like they always have. Make no mistake, economies of scale is one thing, but if you wanted for a worker in another country to live under the same conditions as a worker in another, at the end it would cost the same to hire that worker.
644Nick DuBois: Also, so deeply satisfying that the German economy will be hit the hardest in therms of these trade disputes. Your current governance has blindly lead you to the kiss of death: “We can do this!”
645BoogalooTillYaPuke: I'd like to see you become President/Prime Minister...I'm being serious, you have the right attitude.
646Arthur itus: 19:01 Where do you think the computer on her wrist was manufactured?
647Michiel Van Kets: not 1 mention of the fact that there's no free trade within the usa itself; taxes, regulations, unions, permit, licenses; that's what destroyed your economy ...
648Thomas Busse: Why is it when DW puts out a video about EU punitive tariffs or questioning the benefits of free trade, all nod in agreement, but when Trump brings it up, it's a frenzied outrage?
649InfoChina: Don't use that democracy thing to blame China, it's just a very lame excuse for the US and the alike to behave badly.
650jingle bell: Do you know why your mobile phones are not tax???
651Steve W: Then that's not even free trade is it? You just destroyed your own argument. Free trade isn't a lie, you just don't have it when the government protects an industry in the first place. Get it?
652John Wu: trump vs the nwo lol
653Jack Meoff: Very well done. Finally an unbiased report of tariffs and their importance.
654Frank Joseph: Whats fair for the goose is fair for the gander
655Caesar Anthony Sanchez: That lady that had that blog promoting buying American .... has an Apple Watch. Smfh
656FUCK OF GOOGLE+: The way this is being narrated is misleading. It is as if the EU, or China or who ever else, is forcing people to buy their products instead of local ones. People in their countries prefer to buy foreing products because of price, quality etc. And then special interest groups in the government come and say to people you will not buy what you want, but what and who i want to protect. The hole idea about capitalism and free trade is that you can choose what you want to do with your money. And even if there truly is a "social" need to buy domestic to protect the chain of wealth for all, then why can't you convince people to buy domestic? Why does the government needs to force people to alter their behavior? This way, the free market is put out of balance and equilibrium. This way only financial and production bubbles are being made. This way only populist politicians get elected and the public thinks it can walk on air and bubbles for ever.
657Luigi LI: When other countries complain Chinese government subsidies, do they think that it is impossible for a government to subsidy industries in large scale, because governments also need revenues. True reason for business winner is always cheapness and efficiency.
658Zhi Han Lee: Free trade is probably more palatable in a society that believes in self-reliance e.g. supply-side policies, rather than protectionsm. But if competitors are more competitive due to things like pollution and dumping then I guess that's a different story
659Roger K: Linda you can hear their voices all day every day on every tv network. No need to have them take valuable air time here as well.
660HellFire: If you want to keep your healthy liver and kidneys, don't consume any agriculture products made from China.
661DJ FX: It's not fair either
662John Smith: 7.5 billion people and always growing on this already over populated planet. You will always have a growing poverty population. You would need the resources of 2 extra planet earths for nobody to live in poverty. Unless 3rd world countries used birth control population growth is not going away any time soon.
663Torsten Heinrich: Not even once is it mentioned that cheap products might harm local producers, but benefit the overwhelming majority in the same country. Because the products become far cheaper for the rest of the population. Not even once is this mentioned. Fucking socialist propaganda. And the Germans are forced to pay for it.
664876beauty: The WTO in collaboration with the imf destroyed Jamaica's Diary and Citrus Industry, we are yet to recover...
665STC: But seriously, a lot of stuff in China is made in other places too! Like all the airplane, most of the cars, and a lot of high tech stuff! Without trade Chinese will only have simple machinery, daily goods, and Westerners will only have high tech, large machines, and have no daily goods.
666obazas: either to have a high minimum wage or to to have a cheap products . you cant have both
667Ronald Johnson: I'm an American citizen. I love these DW broadcasts I catch on YouTube. They are very enlightening and lack the feel of propaganda. It seems to be a service I can trust. Great reporting guys.
668Mark Grisnich: I don't get it! Free Trade is certainly possible, provided business taxes are minimized, tariffs are abolished, and subsidies made illegal. In that scenario, free trade will benefit everyone it touches. If your job disappears from competition, you must either improve, or find a new market where you will not decrease efficiency! The main thing is, subsidies and tariffs are petty power games, and as far as I can tell, they hurt everyone, expensively the small producers and laymen!
669Michael Wilson: For all Trump supporters(American traitors)...guess what Ivanka has her cloths made in China....than exported to the USA ??, so let's start with taking Trump out of office, than we can start, remember y'all they are the first family, the first to go
670Viktor M: The REAL Free Trade basically mean that you personally, as a consumer, decide what to buy and from whom; any other alternative means that someone else decides that for you... nothing more, nothing less. What the politicians mean when they're talking about free trade basically, can be almost anything - whatever their lingo newspeak assigns it to, but never the actual free trade; usually it means legalistic regulatory exchange, so that both countries in question copy each others regulatory burden to ensure that the trade is 'fair' and none of them has any advantage over the other; under such conditions politicians may even lift some quotas and tariffs, and call this mayhem a 'free trade', but it is a misnomer.
671Sea Hag π: 408Magenta This documentary is full of propaganda! I usually enjoy DW but I guess when money is the subject, things get down& dirty!
672hsp: Excellent documentary.
673Raam Perumal: I don't understand how home grown onions are expensive than the ones from Europe? I do grow onions in my field in India, and I understand that at times workers' wages increase my overall expensive from season to season, but can't understand how a produce at an higher wage country, exported comes at a cheaper rate than one grown in a country where wages and other expenses are relatively very cheap.
674brika 01: At 26.00; those are not casava, they are sweet potatoes.
675Inter Vest Com: I am for the working class and the middle-class! therefore, I am with Trump!!!!!
676Zen Masong: China does not want competition. They want other rivals out of the market and suffer great loss. As China continues to disrupt the world economy in their ways, tariffs and protectionism becomes more and more justified. What good is it that we could buy cheaper goods but our economy and market and jobs are losing.
677ThePantsExtra: No, it's not. Please look up what a trade surplus is.
678BKTA: Costco samples are free
679Truth Seeker: 24:26 The Usual Double Standard of developed countries from; Economy to Democracy and freedom of expression in developing countries.
680Bastiat in the Andes: Actually, banks are the most regulated sector in the planet.
681Xuan Vinh To: It appears the common people on all sides are equally miserable.
682Omega Control: So, the whole basic point of free trade is not that the worker benefits, but that all consumers benefit. So, consumers could get new tiles for 25% less from China, but they tax them at 25% so that international trade cannot provide a cheaper product for the German consumers. So, what's the point? Let's tax all the stuff that's cheaper, the stuff that we would all be able to buy more cheaply. ??
683Marshal Ironsides: Oh goody! We can watch you be wrong in multiple languages!
684calstatebadboy1111: Just learned something. We poor people need to get with a global takeover and change the laws or we are all doomed to settle for nothing.
685Dean Champion: That American flag she was holding that claimed "Made in the USA" might not have been -- it isn't, always. Ever hear of American Samoa, or the Northern Marianas Islands? The island's exemption from U.S. labor laws had led to many alleged exploitations including recent claims of sweatshops, child labor, child prostitution, and even forced abortions. They can slap a "Made in the USA" sticker on clothing produced by Chinese migrant labor in sweatshops. I just bought some grated parmesan cheese. It didn't claim to be imported, but it also didn't identify a state/town of origin, or what company manufactured it, etc. The laws are NOT designed to keep consumers informed -- just to keep you manipulable and obedient.
686bj0rn: For over a century, the west, led by UK and US has gone around the world opening up markets and natural resources to exploitation of western companies under the flag of freedom and democracy, often using military force. If we close our boarders to China in fear of competition we should not be surprised if they call us hypocrites and adopt a similar strategy.
687Tanit Thamakaison: Capitalism + free trade would be better for consumers only when transparency conducts.
688Modern Money Theory UK: These EUers are idiots. they need to learn that imports are good and exports are bad. With imports the importer gets all the energy and human & other resources of China and gives China a few bits of paper which it cannot use in its own market so generally leave at the ECB either in it's current account or in the form of bonds. With exports we pile all our effort, time and resources and give it away for a few Yen or whatever currency which can easily lose its value at the foreign governments whim. Oh yes we get the pollution from the creation etc. Unemployment is not caused by China it is caused by Neoliberal economists and their pet politicians choosing to restrict the money supply to the extent that local people can't afford to buy local goods/services which is further destroyed by banks parasitizing the real economy and the govt refusing to provide enough real currency to buy the goods/services and pay their debts to the banks down and purchase foreign goods/services as well.
689Guilt Azaour: just like your iphone at least make it korean
690BKTA: When it comes to trade, every country is trying to rip off and take advantage of the US .It takes a real President like Trump to put America first and Make America great again. God bless Trump!
691computername: People from other countries need to understand this mechanism before making a judgement: German media is on a venture against german industry, and all efforts are made to project it in a negative light. The people who decide to study and work in media are mostly (mind-) children of a late 70s ideology where industry, particularly technology (and even science, if it benefits industrialisation) are bad. An utopian phantasy, where we all live on a farm and eat homegrown potatoes. The funny thing is that now these SJWs actually meet on the end of anti-development with nationalists and other forms of backwards ideologies that have romantic ideas about "the simple life". And so it happens that left-wing german media actually presents Trump views as recommendations. But don't be fooled. A big part of germanys economic power are acutally good quality products. And people who don't watch too much hippie media will continue to dirve technology forward and make them.
692William Henry: is it fair? no. is it beneficial for everyone? yes. If it wasn't, people wouldn't trade.
693Rick Wankan: Excellent and it was done with looking at all sides thank you and keep up the good work...
694john bob: free trade, will kill all riches country ( job ) and manufacturing. just make riches of trader/business out of riches country
695Balen Mars: DW is a leftist medium, that's probably why they are less biased and more balanced than other media
696Stephen Zatezalo: Tis why I do not like European products. I concur with FREE TRADE but it must work both ways for all.
697second chance: Trump doing the right thing it's awful deal how about fair trade
698AAA P: And yet the Lying Main Stream Media keeps purposefully lying to make Trumps fair trade sound like hes a raging lunatic when in fact hes calling for balanced recipriocal trade. So much for a Free Media not sold out to Globalist Elite
699Lawney Malbrough: This poor guy has to won two bicycle shops to feed his family. This is the result of China having favored nation trade status! Free trade does not bring prosperity for everyone. Only for those who take adavntage of chep labor in foregin naitons. The peole they depend on the buy their products have less money to buy their productsd, but they don't see how that is hurting their bottm line in the long run. I don't think they are concerned about the long run because corprate exectuvies will make many millions in the short run and still be in a good position when the comapny fails! Only small busineese sworry about the long run because they hope to pass their buisiness on to their decendents. When the exectutive does not own the business he does'nt care what happens to it as long as he gets his money. The global ecconomy is not for the American peole or the British people or any people other than corporate executives. The global ecnonmy is a scam to defraud as many epole as possible out of a living wage!
700Commentator541: Correct. Everything but the specialist goods are made in pretty much the exact same way.
701Damian Pos: bussines has pick ub but all of people will pay more great
702Rockers From Hell: to get bikes cheaper,the worlds oceans are traversed more heavily, tons of diesel is used all in the name of competition/ cheapness.
703Jehbuhdieya Springfield: Aka free wealth.
704GaslitWorld f. Melissa B: Import ONLY what your nation cannot grow or manufacture. Why not trade based on that principle, with the exception of luxury goods? Technically, Michigan, a state, doesn't need to import anything. As a country, we would be awesome. We have it all: oil, salt, soil, fresh water, fish, farms and minerals. Our coal mines have been closed for a while though.
705om pay: 5:00
706Wei Man: It is very interesting to see how the policy change between EU and China, it appears EU is putting more and more punitive tariff over Chinese products and China is trying to open up more, like recently lowering import cars tariff, which made Germany very happy. In China, people believe in competition mechanism. If history has taught us any lessons about protectionism, when it comes to certain threshold, lack of competition will cause a lot more serious problems.
707Las Vegan: Buy Canadian!
7085tay Tuned: 29:21 thinking of the newly imposed american tariffs
709User USER: Fight back, buy almost nothing.
710Prabu Lanangsyah: Buy from asia cheap, sold from us and europe expensive...wow china is swolen the world
711ThePantsExtra: That's not what a trade surplus is. It's not just extra free money that a country gets, and it does not mean that Germany is better off than countries with a trade "deficit." A country can have a high trade surplus and a terrible economy or a large trade deficit and a booming economy (like the US). Of course, your wage SHOULD be going up, because the economy is growing and your labor should be getting more valuable as your experience increases. It just has nothing to do with trade surplus.
712Steve W: This is a piss poor documentary. Pure propaganda piece and looking at the comments people are falling for it. We don't have an "era of free trade". We never have had an era of free trade. Even the largest single market (EU) is a protectionist racket. Free trade isn't the cause of the problems in Africa, protectionism is and always was it's problems.
713David George: In 1840, Britain and the east India Company forced the opium trade on China- by way of 'gunboat diplomacy'. The fact is- that the Chinese tea trade to Britain was very lop-sided- and created a balance of payments crisis. This was not a good solution to the issue. Current situations require better solutions to trade, and to the creation of wealth and prosperity. My nation, New Zealand, generally practises free trade.
714DW Documentary: Hi Kevin, thanks for your incredible compliment but...please do not use upper letters since this is considered shouting in the internet ...even if we like to hear this sound. But our netiquette http://www.dw.com/en/dws-netiquette-policy/a-5300954asks for sth different...Stay tuned & enjoy!
715Emotionally Challenged Subordinate: Tax only exists because governments are greedy fuckers that think they have the right to steel your money.
716Manos Ragiadakos: If you are against free trade, then that means you want the German workers to have less stuff, because they can not afford to pay another German worker to create the same stuff. Your problem is not the free trade, it is the Chinese state that inflates the money to sell cheaply. It is the same with the EU where it invests on agricultural industry to sell cheap products on third world countries and the locals can not compete them (you made two documentaries on that). Do you agree with that statement ?
717Biman Phil: Awesome
718Marvin McKay: Thanks for sharing, this was very informative.
719DW Documentary: This documentary is also available to watch in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEdeaBjOYFs
720Roger K: T Smith he has to put tarrif on consumer goods, not raw materials. What he is doing is making it harder for manufacturers to produce goods here because not only the labour is more expensive here, but now also the raw materials as well. Increasing the incentive to move abroad with production because the retail goods then are made with cheaper labour, tarif free raw materials and have no tarifs when imported...... He has to put taxes on finished consumer goods to get production to actually move back. He is doing exactly the wrong things, he is protecting the big industrialists, not the consumer or working person..
721Kenneth Andres: Death spiral? Isn't the US one of the most heavily in debt to Asia? Where do you think the US got all that money to bail out those banks during the Great Recession?
722OakhillSailor: If the trade imbalance is so disastrous, how come the US is at <4% unemployment?
723siva: great document.
724False Flag: nice to see chickens with legs that actually get used, happy cows too
725Nikolas B: So there's no such thing as free trade because the playing field was never level in the first place.
726John Spurlock: they will stop at sit shipping stuff here if they have to buy American Products Exchange Trade means I give you this you give me that it has nothing to do with money they should get no money for whatever they ship here they want us to buy there Chinese noodles then they got to buy our Cheerios dollar for dollar
727Sew Hun: It is just a good alert for Angela Merkel, to work on productive issues instead of trying to be proponent of refugees intake. Stand up on your own feet!
728Aleksandar Kolev: Michiel: Not only Americans, but also European countries. And yes, black markets are good example of free markets. which existed long time ago.
729Lonnie Dobbins III: Nobody speaks of the greed of the manufacturers. How many are enough in a market of several manufacturers? I look at the ride share bikes discarded in China and none are being used as more are being produced. *THAT'S STUPID!*
730millertas: I know the entire west could even up trade with China by exporting Opium there. Oh hang on that was done in the mid 19th Century.
731Moyo .A.: The west continues to collaborate with corrupt African governments to screw the African people over, it's just so sad.
732M Hu: The US needs to close all military bases in the the EU zone,,,why protect countries that are destroying our economy and want our young men and women to die to keep them from being over ran.
733Uomo Universale: Interesting documentary in which various perspectives of the parties involved are shown well, but I’ve the feeling that the role of WTO is sketched very negatively here...!
734cmaener: A communication channel like DW should respect itself more and be more careful about the content it allows presented in its name. This documentary is completely missing half of the story... the consumers' view and the benefits that free trade can also bring. While free trade is, indeed, a slipery slope mostly in terms of environment damage and negative impact to livelihood of vulnerable groups of society, it also has big potential and advantages. The documentary defends protectionism with the pseudo-argument of "everybody does it", instead of provocating with other alternatives different to economic protectionism, like social responsibility from goverments and organizations to enable capabilities, skills and knowledge to produce in other industries where a country could have a competitive advantage. These advantages could be a varied as climate conditions, geographic location, cultural characteristics, traditional knowledge, etc. From my PoV environmental protectionism might be one of the few valid arguments for blocking free trade.
735Michael Calibri: So the 2 German customs ladies determine what the product is made from from the tag printed by the manufacturer: brilliant. This is like self-reporting in economics.
736Norm T: Why do the yanks think they have a monopoly on having jobs. If they can make it better and cheaper in China I say why not. The poverty there is nothing compared to the west... I think support China or Asia.
737Max Mykhailyna: Finally, something insightful from mass media.
738Michael Olson: This video makes a good point that unfair trade can be the related cost of employing a worker, i.e. the cost of training/education, employee benefits, government safety and environment oversight. If you take away these costs related to labor what is left is the pure net cost of labor once adjusted for cost of living differences. It is this adjust net cost which gives us the pure cost of labor. Here is a link to a cost of living difference between East Coast and West Coast in the United States: http://blog.gojobhero.com/cost-of-city-living-2016-east-coast-v-west-coast/. These tariffs should circle back to a emerging county in the form of aid through organizations that put these types of benefits in place for the works of that country. The money should not do to the country charging the tariff except for the cost associated with tracking and verifying like they are doing in this video. This way a charity can step in supply benefits back to the works in the related industry since the business and/or country will not. This is how we take care of the World and make it a level playing field for all. This is how I think import tariffs are best used. This way all involved get taken care of in one way or another for their contribution to society. It also, force companies to make it work in their country of origin because if they level and sell back just to source cheap labor the tariff will go back to the country they are getting the cheap labor in to give the benefits that they did not or will not give to the works through third parties such as charities. Also, it would be a end to the human commodity game and force companies to compete like in sports by getting better, the right way to win!:) Not selling the people down the road creating Global issues. Just a thought on fair trade and the use of tariffs to get there. Remember this money is also use to develop the governmental systems above as well. So 1st World works with 2nd, 3rd and 4th World countries helping them get to first World standard in treatment of the human worker. That should be the goal! As they bring these systems online the Charity can convert to a for profit insurance or benefit company. This means as the country confirms the charity slowly converts with it to now employ these people in the charity in the for profit version of the charity doing the same thing it was doing as a charity. These means a charity turns into a long run sustainable business and all the charity funders can become equity shareholders giving them their money back and future profit for their good heart gesture and sacrifice of a little of today for an even brighter tomorrow for everyone. This is a win, win, win, and win! :) Just a thought on how to make the World a better place! :)
739Sekogas Iskren: You see, your good life is stolen by your CEOs and stakeholders, not by China
740ChanoineStraub: How can you protect the poor and the middle class without any protectionism? The country itself isn't protected.
741John D: I just want to be allowed to buy a wire or a battery made ANYWHERE else besides China -- or Taiwan, see 7:15 -- please. Is that so much to ask? 18:15 Volvo now belongs to a Chinese multinational. -_-
742Theodoro Seidler: Brazilian agriculture competes very well in a global scale without subsidies. It is the one sector in the country not so influenced by the government and has prospered. What China is brewing in Africa is of concern. It will level all forests there and turn it all into soja bean plantations. My advice to folks in Africa is to invest in agricultural research institutes that develop new varieties adapted to African climate conditions and that develop new farming technologies adapted to your region and be rid of the Chinese while you can... On a side note: the richness of farming in Europe is unparalleled in terms of what it can produce, with the quality it can produce, the variety and fact that it can be offered to the public in general for a very low price. Cheese, ham, sausages, bread, butter, vegetables and milk are very cheap. Much cheaper than in Brazil for the same quality. I know that has to do with subsidies but going to a saturday market makes it clear it has it's upsides. I hope I get to see farming here become as refined as in Europe, produce as many local varieties and still not need to be subsidised. But when it come to meat, I feel sorry for Europeans. Meat is extremely expensive there and not of particularly good.
743Asian Creations: say hello to pollution in america
744Jacob Wamsley: Made in China Made in China Made in China Made in China Made in China guess where this is made? In China
745Tiago Araújo: yes, the 1% are wealthier now more then ever with the ownership of 90% of the world's economy, but the 99% are poorer more then they ever been full of endless personal debts, country debts, sanctions, starvation, warfare, extortions from american and arab funded groups like isis...
746Jacob Sammer: Free trade is an ideal. We should be shooting for as close to free trade as possible allowing for adjustments per countries laws and cultures. But when you have fraud and no legal recourse in world courts you have to have some means of mitigation. Chinese steel and aluminum ordered by my business almost always come in "soft". When we've sent samples for testing it's always come back with too much slag in the steel or higher compositions of cheaper metals in the aluminum alloys. And when you attempt to question the seller they get back to you months later or just try to give you more metal at a discount. You can't hold them to any sort of quality control or safety standards. All you can do is use the metal on low fail parts and buy quality metals from other vendors. But now you have to watch what is now sneaking into their shipments too. It's made sourcing much more difficult. It's like bad mortgages showing up in AAA rated securities.
747A Chopra: Reaganomics. Send all the manufacturing jobs abroad and rely on financial and service sector industries to keep your country afloat (aided also by printing money to fill in the blanks). Skip forward to 2018 - " they tuk arrr jobbzz"
748Justus Shwafati: Never was a free trade!!!
749Dream A: Trump is doing the right thing in the 'wrong' way. It's wrong because it is a short term win without regard for the long term consequences. The problem is that America's unilateral power is waning, and I predict that the rest of the world will eventually displace American exceptionalism once they realize how much power America currently holds over the world. The question is who will replace that void
750Movie BuffBabe: I've been seeing a lot of "assembled in the usa" not "made in the usa" and that's still supporting another country where it's actually made; it's their way of getting around those who try to purchase only made in the usa products.
751Faizi Zainazlan: great video. free trade only beneficial for two countries that are equally rich
752HardWarUK: The global market is a con job, which means it won't last long - maybe 50 years or so. We've been doing it for 30 years or so, so in 20 years it will have a big change.
753orly2001: Only to have tariffs to protect certain products and industries without protecting all else makes no sense whatsoever. Protect steel leaves food to be dumped, add protection for food would leave let's say wood chips open to abuse. The internal economy would easily become unbalanced and tend to structure towards producing goods and services with higher profit margins destroying the rest or at a bare minimum arrest development in those under performing segments. Completely open borders to services and products is also undesirable because of un balances mentioned in the video, chiefly state subsidies, lower wages, lower raw material costs, huge infrastructure, lower legislation in workers rights and pollution or ambient concerns etc make for some counties having attraction for manufactures that do not care for the economic well being of their country of origin. A balance to be struck that would compensate for disloyal if not out right illegal behaviours would need to start in every countries internal economy. Starting with the end of governmental interference of the markets and of industry, deregulation, an end of subsidies especially to the bigger corporations and a more level domestic playing field for all actors. The state or regional entities should not, and not be able to, tamper with or design the economy in any shape or firm leaving it to the entrepreneurs to forge the industrial landscape. The correct way would be to allow only entrpeneurs that understand their business to open and maintain their business, no tax discounts or credits, no allowances, no free money to open business, no incentives needed, and little red tape as possible. It goes without saying that in certain cases legislation must be enforced as an example in the food industry the standards of higiene and salubrity, in the construction sector there must be safety concerns for the workers and the end product, in finance and banking proper conduct must be followed and no gambling allowed, etc. Consumer rights must be protected by informing of origin of the materials used, place of production (all steps) , time and dates where applicable, privacy concerns also where applicable. Once this is achieved the nation states ought to forge then a system of trade (without the intervention of supranational entities such as the eu) to limit the amount of barriers to trade allowing each nation to negotiate which products may benefit them to acquire else where in the world and which may be convenient to produce domestically. The eu is notoriously corrupt and distorting the economies of its nation states by ordering protection tariffs for goods Germany and France produce (milk fishery and agricoltura quotas, automobile and engeneering protection) whilst not protecting Italian agricoltural and food products for example parmesan cheese knocked off by parmesao from brasil, or olive plantations destroyed and huge imports of cheap low quality olive oil from from Tunisia, low grade imports of tomato from all over the world are cheaper than Italian produce wreaking farms and livelihoods but also wreaking the made in italy brand, and to not forget the oranges from Sicil rotting in trees in order to buy Spanish Tunisian and Morocco low quality, un checked and un hygienic produce. To achieve the above is to also stop the influx of innumerable illegal economic migrants from the south especially who do not have documents, skills, knowledge, culture to be of any use in the production of quality products, but are a very heavy burden on state resources already under too much strain from the economic crises, undue and time wasting political power will and influence that would be used to better the nation in having a better society and healthy economy that could in turn then help poorer nations to prosper.
754ettekamba6969: Africa has the worlds 69%. Of lands so africans shd protects their self.
755thethoroughbred: I agree with you and you get a like from me, however DW missed the elephant in the room. Free trade isn't really free trade but they kept calling it free trade and saying it wouldn't work in some countries. Yes they're right it wouldn't not in its current guise which is communism anyway. I know they waited until the last moment to say free trade being free is a myth. But that didn't stop them attacking communism in the clothes of free trade a few times throughout.
756Tafero Arthur: Here is the bottom line: I live and work in China as a visiting professor; I bought a brand new bike there for 500RMB= $85 US. This same bike in the EU or the US is well over $300; and some as high as $500. How can a country or company think they can sell bikes for $300 to $500 and expect government protection, when the REALITY is that these bikes sell for $85 in China? The Chinese undervalue their bikes, but overvalue their real estate. You can't artificially keep prices high just to keep unskilled jobs (even skilled jobs) in an economy. Eventually water seeks its own level.
757Lord Shanghai: *Nationalistic agenda* And what is wrong with being a nationalist? Oh this is made by DW, I'm not surprised German channel considers something nationalist bad.
758Dan Ray: as long as the US continues to down size governments ability to finance large projects and maintain infrastructure, the trade deficit will continue to climb...Trump's trade war will fail, but not before his family makes off with the bribery money.....MAGA CHUMPS...will pay the price if they continue to vote Republican.
759Jay Dillon: Slave labor is so cheap and productive !! And now the moslems are actually buying and selling black slaves again, or maybe we just found out about it happening and it's been going on all along. SLAVERY IS THE NEW FREEDOM. GEORGE ORWELL'S NIGHTMARE COME TRUE.
760Let's Talk Series by Theodore Howard: Very informative! Opened my view to things that are more important.
761chbrules: Trade is free by default. Government is not necessary. Squash the state and you'll see a revolution in human prosperity globally. This isn't a zero-sum game. When you can afford more for less, even less in wages, what difference does it make (see deflation)? It's the purchasing power a consumer has that matters in the end, not the scalar dollar values in their bank account. When we trade, we get what we want, be it currency or goods, at the price we want. Value is created and added all the time, thus making it a non-zero-sum game.
762Gunpowder & Lace: Incorrect. Sixty to seventy years ago, the US manufactured the majority of their own goods. Clothing, food, cars, appliances, literally almost everything. The cost percentage per average income for those goods was actually less than what it is today, and quite frankly, they were better-made goods.
763Hördi Dördi: What a great documentary, thank you very much for making this available to the public!
764khowajakarim: Very informative
765Drew776655: I'm frankly surprised by how unbiased this is. Most of the media in the U.S. automatically opposed Trump no matter what his policies are. "Trump likes protectionism? FREE TRADE FOR ALL! It's what Marx and Soros would have wanted!" Good to see that's not the case here.
766Yao .Z: Tiago Araújo yes, hard working people are always better than losers
767perfecttrunks2000: Free trade is unrealistic until someday when the world is run by one global government that no longer has borders and therefore can't create border tariffs. Also there would still need to be specialization by regions of items and services for sale.
768Dennis Grass: 20:45 the German professor is blaming the U.S. for the great Depression of 1929, because of the protectionist tariff trade policies the U.S. implemented. Tariff Act of 1930 or some call "Smoot-Hawley Tariff" is to which he refers.
769Rusty Shackleford: “When goods don't cross borders, Soldiers will". -Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
770FRED FLINTSTONE: hey krauts....what the hell are you doing buying gas from your dreaded enemy....go ahead crawl in bed with them
771Pertti Heinikko: If our smartphones, laptops, pads, bikes, coats and tons of other things were manufactured in the West they'd be of no higher quality but five times more expensive than they are now. So thank God for China! Anyways, a really good and smart documentary.
772imp3r1alx: Comment all you want.. but the buyers or in this case the consumers are the player.. you can make high qualities products all year round.. but the consumer is the one choosing which, he's going to buy and most people only think there's no employment for them.. well why not try you open a business and start paying those workers.. THEN maybe you will know how a company run
773ceicli: +Ghastly Grinner A stupid statement! Left or right, what matters is how you behave towards others!
774KMJ 23: Trump and EU agree to work toward 'zero tariffs' http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/398856-trump-strikes-deal-with-eu-to-avoid-trade-war-report
775Mark Grisnich: Absolutely agree. Decentralized economic control is always unconditionally better.
776Pierce Parker: This is yet another very high-quality production from DW. This is why I love DW so much and watch its segments religiously. Thanks, DW!
777Musang King Se: The commentator must be kidding.. what about China imposing high taxes for goods imported from US.
778Nigel Uchiha: Then don't complain when a Mexican takes your job because he does it better and faster. We'll see how much you like it.
779Ancapistan: Free with any Govt? Hahaha
780Salobrena Smith: Africa should tell Europe to fluck off and deny them the oil and diamonds and all the other stuff they are pillaging from Africa..
781Sleepy J: German policy favors industrial production over consumption with high VAT. That's unfair to the rest of Europe and the US
782master yap: Exemplary piece of reporting. Thanks DW! Free trade is never "free." A struggle between the rich and the poor, those with power and those with none. The correlation between free trade an "immigration" was very insightful! Learned much, much to ponder.
783Nana Nana: We Africans should start trading among ourselves ,because Europeans will do anything destroy our everyday lives. America is treating Rwanda ?? because Second hand cloth brought to Rwanda is a treat to local business....
784Michael Calibri: Taiwan: so that's where the rules say value is added, so the tariff is lowered to 15% from 50% although the components are of Chinese origin. False. Taiwan wields clout economically and politically than Cambodia, Tunisia and the handful of countries which were hit with the larger tariff and I'm sure they would react none too Kindly if taxed higher through their other industries. And that bishop owner isn't selling cheap imports because he's flipping them for the going rate of what he would normally sell bikes for. This discounting isn't going to the consumer. Those bikes should be selling for $50 each if the market is flooded.
785HUY PHAM: Fair trade, not free trade. If other countries, like China, dump their products and impose tariffs on ours, then we should be able to return the favor.
786grabitz: LOL free trade is nothing but a tool for the rich to use slave wage labor in countries that dont give a darn about their working class people. We live in a world of fools
787Kaze: Hence why I don't buy name brand. They are all made the by the same manufacturers.
788incyphe: those cows are so cute.
789AGAN DAJOH: Istt Zeit fur Deutschland to do in favor for poor countries changed the old monetary system, which are directed poorly to be poorer, rich richer., and not improving the buying power of their citizen. Poor countries are not able to print Dollars or Euro, fluctuate exchange rates currency make poor counties collapse by increased debts. Money spends for weapons in Rich countries, not for infrastructures in poor countries. Sanctions here and there destroyed existing global trade, given no solutions at all, directed to stop trades, tension, chaos then start a war. One nuclear missile enough to destroy any country. Cheaper or expensive goods are caused by currency exchange of the old monetary system, need review immediate.
790aruytpadyugf: wow so this is one exception where Trump was actually kinda right about the unfair trade with China.
791DANTHETUBEMAN: globalism is saying that no one can stand independently as a nation, that is ridicules at this level of technology every nation should be 98% independent, if not 100% depending on choices made.
792Who Me: Commie propaganda, just because someone live geography different than me doesn't mean they can't buy my item
793Damauli Johnson: poverty is a fiction as far as what am seeing we (the world) is producing more the goods must be affordable for people that are very remote and extremely poor, the poor is bases of the labour force yet it seems the can't afford these commodity that are being produce,now I hope u understand why I say poverty is a man illusion?
794Antonio Fenix: Small and poor countries like the Philippines need to protect its food supply, it needs protection for its nascent industries being over run by goods from China. China not only floods Philippine markets with cheap goods it also muscles into Philippine territory claiming sea territory that belongs to the Philippines preventing Philippine fishermen from fishing in their own waters.
795IRL Server: DW going full Trumpism now? What a turn. Trump is going to cause a global recession in the name of 'economic justice'. I expected better, oh well. *shrug*
796moonmoonbirdcpt: 17:30 does this retarded burger know that "made in MURRCIA" does not mean everything and the part of the item that was suppose to be "made in MURRICA" actually made in MURRICA. The law said that as long as 25% of the value added was in MURRICA it can be declared "made in MURRICA"; on top of that, a label baring the brand's name count as 40% of the product value. Seriously, look it up before going full retard. And this is why MURRICA is going to loose the trade war because there are so many ways to go around the tariffs.
797John Chalinder: LOL! "...in business you have to have a level playing field..." Is this man stoned? Since when has the world had a 'level playing field'? Business has always been a madhouse to see who can grab the 'market share', who can create a huge monopoly and charge what the market will bare, rather that what products are actually worth. Typically, a $50 - $100 toy will only cost $10 - $20 to make, package, market and distribute. The rest is pure greed. In the interest of profit, quality of product suffers as corners are cut to increase the profit margin. Companies are not run by honest, responsible people now; rather, they are run by investors, whose ONLY 'bottom line' is higher dividends. And they don't give a damn about pensions, health care, or worker safety; so long as they can pocket more and more of your hard earned money.
798Isabel Sherrell: how can you make this documentary and not include even once the words 'neo colonialism' and 'structural racism'
799Kula Cnt: Gene Hicks your surname says it all! fyi Trumptard Bill had us in surplus then Dubya started another stupid ass war/wars then Obama started to fix it again and then some(free healthcare etc.) and now the orange bum is going to send us right down the shitter again! What Republicans really need is free education by the looks of it!
800S A D - E G G: the freer the market does not mean the freer the people
801Z C: Im Chinese, and I completely agree.
802Bertrand James: Obama signed a "free trade" agreement with Columbia. Now Trump has to deal with all the unemployed Columbian corn farmers crossing into the USA looking for work.
803Patrik Banek: Free trade makes everyone better off
804Chuang Li: There won't be real free trade if our economy is in-planet economy, or in another way to describe, different countries exist on the Earth.
805KMJ 23: Very informative info thanks DW
806Krzysztof Ferenc: 29:38 there is flag of Poland not Germany - PLEAESE REPAIR THIS MISTAKE
807Raja Rajab: Market for free can a fact the country GDP
808LIBERTY for humanity: besides Chinese government playing bad and unfair against the whole world JUST knowing how corrupted and violators of humanity and stealing everything from the whole world and knowing that millions of people ARE death defending against of communists and now USA and many western countries are kissing China just for their money, Venezuela and Cuba loves China with all of their hearts and minds because China propaganda promoting that soon they are going to be as rich as China ?????????☻??
809Rene Cordova: I f there is a way to cheat, most companies will find a way....free trade is a myth... Trump will beat these cheaters with their own rules...
810hotdog: The drain on the U.S has to stop. Go the Trumponator and go again in 2020.
811Kevin Loving: Again American workers are American consumers,get it y'all.
812John Doe: America robbed the world withdrawing free trade. US is now the most powerful country in the world even with China an Russia as Heavy Allies. ftw *edit) it was a tactic put in place many many years ago for this exact purpose, i believe wholeheartedly.
813maaz amjad: All this hue and cry is because the white majority in the West is feeling the brunt of their own multinational corporations.
814BORZOU7000: fuck..... man, life is to complicated....... i make sure not to make another one like me.
815wanelly: Jodonho when the tariffs are implemented, product prices go high. Then the local companies take advantage of this high prices on imported goods and they start producing the same stuff @ a cheaper price locally. As a result, imported products are not bought, the locals get jobs, and every one locally is happy.
816DW Documentary: Hi Pat H, nope, yet unfamous colleague...thx for carefully listening!
817Matthew Trzcinski: But isn't the onion thing a manner of Holland developing highly, if not fully, mechanized production? Flip the script, Cameron doesn't need a tariff, they need to mechanize. Trade between differently technological levels seems to be the issue here. The Chinese bike factory might be government owned, but it's also highly automated.
818Yasta Fari: And I've our leaders arguing that U.S. jobs were replaced mainly by automation (robots?). That never passed the sniff test for me since I've actually "seen" the factories dying here. The wealthy here have no interest in manufacturing jobs for the middle class, jobs which paid a living wage.
819Steve's Wide Awake: Usury is the problem! The world government has to keep the sheeple enslaved and competitive.
820Nutty Nutt2583: C R facts
821No Hope Equals no fear: America first. Maga.... boycott china
822ettekamba6969: Africans shd protect their lands.
823Rajul Saxena: Free trade happened , but the free movement of people for jobs never happened .
824Adarsh Gupta: The producer of the video seems to have a little to no knowledge about economics. If someone is offering you a product for cheap, the best response will be to accept that. That how a free market work. And talking of loss of job in USA and Europe, Every development in technology will make few people unemployed. People need to change their job as the world evolve.
825Venkatesh V: china will be the largest economy within the next 20 years, both us and the west be ready for that.
826No Hope Equals no fear: Its funny to hear how germany loves their tariffs, but they think ours are so unfair....
827cad80 24: white supremacist former colonizers who flooded former colonies with cheap subsidized agricultural products and other products, even causing wars and forcing dictator on those countries that would bow to the white supremacist Europeans and do what they want, until the white supremacist terrorist completely destroyed those former colonized countries and their economy, are now hypocritically complaining about cheap products from Asia, and want to close their markets and turn inwards
828ma pi: @2024, Protectionism & Nationalism ended in the second world war, WHICH GERMANY STARTED AND American SOLDIERS DIED BY THE THOUSANDS TO SAVE THEIR COLLECTIVE ASSES. Today, Germany HATES President Donald Trump because of his campaign promise to making America GREAT, which is currently happening. At the same time, America will not be taken advantage of again, with that lopsided "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership" (TTIP) mostly favoring the EU & Germany. The United States had a goods trade deficit with the EU was $147 billion in 2016. All President Trump wants is a better deal.
829Abdi: while yes the consumer benefits but in order for that consumer to enjoy that he needs a job. The employers get effected by the tariffs and can't hire people. It all comes back to them
830TH C: People have lost their jobs in America in the Bike manufacturing market, but people have gained jobs in China in the same Market, there is no difference, China has an advantage in that market, accept it and find a job in something that America has an advantage if compared to the rest of the World. It's competition, the least efficient and more expensive will fail, how is it different because they are from a different nation ?
831Metrowhite: Wow, great documentary. Shows the face of those developed countries.
832SpiritsBB: Maggi soy sauce made in Germany @ 14:10? That's interesting.
833spidey 749: Now, most of the people have mobile phones in their hands due to the free trade market, thanks to China. Africa is flooded with cheap agricultural products coming from Europe. In the end, the winner is the consumers.
834Calys Agora: DW Documentary No, I will not bulge for any political correctness garbage. Thats exacty what's so bad about media today, no spine and no integrity. And no honesty about obvious strong biases. Those outlets mentioned are well known to have agendas, decieve, skew numbers, fake blue screen videos, etc etc. and I Ion't care if people get offended by the truth. Sorry.
835Andrew Frolov: Import duties prevent further development of country industries and businesses, as international investors do not open new plants and offices in countries where food, living costs and services are more expensive than on planet's average. Probably cut in social expenses and subsequently - taxes, could make EU and USA more competitive.
8361AppleofEden: *As always, within the context that this all is even real; **#1: No tariffs would obviously be the best option for everyone but we don't live in such a world today. ***#2: Since there are tariffs, it's only common sense that at least they should be "fair" and not just "free" at our expense or at the expense of other countries. ****And #3: The only people that will be hurt economically are those that somehow currently profit from unfair trade in some manner. So if there's some irrational fear that American farmers will lose here it's only because they're afraid of the bully rather than finally standing-up to the bully and demanding equal and fair trade. Of course other countries will fight back, but is that our fault for finally simply seeking an equal and balanced system of tariffs? Protectionism is also an issue here. Unfair trade is globally affecting blue collar workers from Africa, Germany and England to the U.S. and many others today. Balance does not mean "Free." *****Check out this new global trade Trump video... trade/tariff topics beginning at 6 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1qt6nQLoHI
837da s: fucking nationalism
838Droo Roo: Tripe. You confuse free trade with the abuse thereof. You also conflate the success in protecting the interest's of one's own country with "protectionism", which is a word you and other leftists use in an effort to demonize prosperity.
839WHAT UP: 40:05 You mean china right?
840Syangjali Thito Magar: informative, thanks for the documentary.
841Gunpowder & Lace: Just because a business in a country has money, that doesn’t mean their sharing it with the local population. Google and Amazon have tons of money. That doesn’t mean their shelling it out to the people of California. What a stupid thing to say. Corporations and banks exist to make themselves rich. They don’t care what happens to the regular people.
842MizuKageG: This is why the entire concept of jobs is so outdated. We need to find a way for people to have the bare minimums necessary to survive without working, then if they want to upgrade their lives, they can go out and find jobs because at this rate more and more jobs are going to disappear to technology and we won't know what to do with all the unemployed people.
843Johnny Canuck: "FREE" for "WHO" ????? lol! Seriously. Somebody's gotta PAY. Somebody's gets the breaks. Sweetheart deals, etc, etc. Remember folks: "It's a BIG CLUB, and YOU and i are NOT in it." G. Carlin
844Bertrand James: The video showed how cheap onions are in Cameroon. So your comment shows you did not actually watch the video.
845John Doe: one other thing, the eu calls their trading block, the "single market." in truth, it should be called the "highly restrictive market." it's no accident that there are 10,000 lobbyists in brussels fetting around the unelected politicians. it's all corruption. donald trump is the most honest and straight spoken leader on the world stage.
846develoger: Maybe that trade is not free, but journalism obviously is. Thanks, DW.
847tripsadelica: A good documentary and many thanks to the uploader. Let me put things like this. I am Australian. I am now 60. Most of the consumer goods in my house were made in China with the exception of the fridge and freezer. I own two Australian-made cars but should I want to buy replacements Australia no longer has a vehicle building industry (as of 2014) thanks to "free trade." Items in department stores are mostly made in China and usually quite cheap however it is evident that the big retailers are making HUGE profits in importing items like clothing from China and Bangladesh, paying literally tens of cents to buy each item and then selling them with a price which amounts to profit levels of 800% to the companies and even more! In essence western multinational companies are reaping huge profits courtesy of places like China, Bangladesh and Vietnam. The money is paid out in dividends to shareholders but it is essentially dead money...it will not be reinvested in Australia but used to buy even more imported goods. If I go back to when I was an eight year old child then I can recall that nearly everything we used was made here in Australia. Our clothing (many famous Australian brands back then are now just importers), our homewares (Australia had a huge whitegoods manufacturing industry) our electronics ( gigantic factories turned out tv sets, radios, stereograms...etc...) and our cars were all made locally. There was a famous logo depicting a boomerang on a dark blue background with the Southern Cross constellation. This famously announced that the item you were looking at was made in Australia. Yes...as a boy I can recall the beginnings of imports from Japan (furiously fought against by local industry) like electronics and cars but, by and large, we were independent makers of all we needed. There was FULL employment and a burgeoning manufacturing sector. Fast forward to 2018 and we make virtually nothing. Australia has reverted to being the world's mining quarry and supplier of fine wool. All of this because our governments listened to the WTO and favoured "free trade". Tariffs were reduced and then scrapped completely. Manufacturing jobs became more scarce. This was offset by the influx of cheaper goods, certainly, but the prosperous 50s and 60s have given way to the "Detroit effect" in many of our former manufacturing cities. Large swathes of unemployed people, mainly youths, living off government welfare and unlikely to hold any sort of job. The promise of "free trade transition" to a services economy, bringing lots of jobs with it, was a LIE. Yes...we are now mainly a service economy but jobs mostly go to those who can afford a good education...our universities now charging for "student loans" when once such education was FREE because, it was reasoned (and reasoned well) that this would make all our citizens compete on a level playing field. When I was a boy there was FULL employment, companies crying out for youngsters to join them as trainee cadets and new factories opening all the time. YES we paid more for locally-made goods. Our material standard of living was a bit lower because it took longer to buy things like cars and washing machines BUT we had much lower crime rates, drug addiction was minuscule and youngsters had HOPE for a brighter future. The WTO is nothing more than a club making things easier for multinationals who no longer give a fig for the countries which spawned them. China is the main beneficiary and they know it. I don't like Donald Trump's social policies but on tariffs I can see why he has acted the way he has. The US has been the golden goose for all these nations making goods cheaply and China's policy of making foreign companies find a domestic partner before they can manufacture there has really meant that the west's hard-won research and design skills have been stolen by the sneaky Chinese. Sorry...stuff China! Give us back our industries and our jobs! The WTO needs to be closed and a fairer system needs to be devised to help African nations and all other nations currently stuck in the thrall of the EU and China.
848trader boi: the video talks about the wealthy countries. what about poorer countries try to develop manufacturing. the rich countries will stay rich and the poor ones will continue to be poor. the new order, same as the old order. SAD!
849Stefanos Gouveris: Great to witness from time to time how real and non-biased journalism is like.
850Frank Moch: Stop looking at it from the internal angle...If you come to my country Kenya, a majority of vehicles on the road are German made, Mercedes, BMWs, Audis etc....so should everyone consume what they produce in their homeland? absolutely not. China is being effective and efficient so be even and up your game.
851Walter Black: And Germany dominates trade within the EU.
852mitchio86: I think free trade is overall good. However not everybody wins. Kind of like picking your own wife!
853Daniel McDavid: 20:00 Protectionism? Germany in the 1930s did a lot more than Protectionism. It's an uncomfortable subject, but you brought it up... (No, we're not still mad. Modern Germany is forgiven.) I'm from the States, and I am simultaneously the two opposites of this: I proudly buy American products to fuel my patriotism, but I also love cheap stuff, much of which I buy directly from China. Going around my house I looked at where things were made. Here is the ranking: China (all kinds of things) USA (all kinds of things, but especially heavy products that gain weight during the manuscrit process such as dishwasher liquid.) Mexico (various) Taiwan (various) Vietnam (mostly clothes) France (I have family from there, so I imagine I have more French products than the average American. ) Switzerland (mostly things where the entire manufacturing process can be automated, such as plastic bowls, or high end products.) Germany (Same as Switzerland, plus electronic components, I'm studying to be an EE, so I have lots. )
854BLACK STARR: Afrikan rulers, the key word here is PROTECTIONISM.
855Atheus Maximus: A lot of German factories moved to Poland where I live. They pay polish workers one third of what they do to German workers. Those companies locate their factories in so called 'economic zones' where they don't have to pay all of the taxes for some set amount of time. After 5 years or so they have to start paying all of the taxes and raise wages but instead they just move to Turkey or Romania.Then the cycle continues. That is Global Free Trade in a nutshell.
856jekomac: Like most of society aspects, "free trade" is the result of the willing of individuals. The objective is therefore personal gain. If/when human society will be unite enough to make plans for his own good and not for individuals, world trade will be a positive and health resource, with a balanced attitude towards the ambient we all live in and share: earth.
857Michael Rowsell: the problem is that due to cost of living in Europe and the US is high ( you need 2000$ a month to live ) whereas in Chine the cost of living is low (a family can live off 200$ a month) .So without protection all jobs in Europe and the US would disappear. Europe and the EU are in the same boat.
858ThomasTheSailor Chubby: Any time We centralize control, like the "WTO" , You will find Corruption, and lots of it.. Even if it starts out with good intentions, it will eventually be corrupted by greed.. EVERY TIME !! No exceptions. Usually sooner than later.. That's a FACT !
859Joseph Vergara: local product should be protected no matter what the other say of the globalization works,,, if we just consume and not making product locally we are on the mercy of the giant company who have the capacity to produce more and dump it the local market, we enjoy the low price for sure but we are the accessories why it happened anywhere in the world today... the big make it bigger the small they make smaller thats the true...
860SuperKwame1: Excellent Documentary, Well and Fair , Thanks,
861spaceman with raygun: I'm 40 I've never seen free trade.
862Dadniel: Great video. Thanks
863Whatbettywore: Onions from Europe crazy would
864NPC Guy: Good video. Thank you for pointing out the problems with globalism. It's good to know there other individuals thinking the same thing.
865Source Research: If you continue to buy Chinese made goods,. You, your children, your grandchildren, etc etc and the economy of your country, will fall. Stop Buying Chinese and South East Asian goods! Buy local, keep our money local! Germany profits more than any other country in the EU. This is why they are shouting loudest about Brexit.. Germany are now the same as Ireland, they've had the begging bowl out for yrs..
866dainiu: Two important things left out 1. China's currency manipulation. If China exports so much, everyone would be BUYING their currency to pay for Chinese goods. But China pays lip service to currency appreciation and keeps its currency low. 2. USA, Germany, UK, EU et al were the ones who sold "free trade" to everyone. Remember the Uruguay Round of talks? Remember GATT? Who set up the WTO?
867Matsui Mzee: The argument is that it denies African farmers the chance to develop the competency to one day produce onions as cheaply as the Netherlands. Or the women in the documentary to earn enough capital to upgrade and mechanize their production, buy more land, explore other ventures and so on. In all it denies them the growth opportunity
868Anne Illerbrun: 18:57 "her initiative sounds like it has a Nationalist agenda" so she feels compelled to defend that statement.   In the community where I reside those with the highest social status are those who provide the most jobs. Obviously they don't care who these jobs go to, they're only worried about cost margins in their favour.   These scenarios all come from the same vacuous train of thought. The film maker, narrator needs to define this disconnect for me.  She can't see what's coming over the rise ? She is truly ignorant of history, people who are considered educated ought to be. There was a time in history when the merchant class was considered the scum of the earth, they neither created nor made anything, they just sucked a little off the product in an exchange. Most people are trapped in the fog of a Market Pricing economy, the most inhuman and damaging form of exchange ever.The globalists intend to destroy African initiatives and economies. Stop this ball I want to get off.
869Kaze: Plants deserve a life without genocide, be fair, be a carnivore, it works for all animals, we are animals and it's best for humans to eat all animals.
870Bris Vegas: The buying and selling of plastic, plastic, plastic all over the world transported by thousands of dirty cargo ships releasing deadly sulfur into the atmosphere as we humans mindlessly consume more and more in a meaningless life of waste and all this plastic ends up in the lands, oceans and rivers or the earth polluting the animals, plants and entire natural world. What a gigantic mess.
871D Roe: Parker does not like Trump, but guess what...he was the only person running for president who gave a damn about that. Sure, makes sense. smh She also does not know what nationalism is. These dumb people, I swear.
872Josh Wizard: Free market capitalism isn't to blame for the trade wars, political dogma is. Anyone with a fucking brain would see that anyone who has the power to slap tariffs on imports and exports are political entities. If you remove the state, we wouldn't have this issue. Free market economics have always been tampered with by the state and results in corporatism. Corporatism allows shitty businesses that no one wants to continue their shitty practices by funding from the state via your tax money and the oblivious masses of people who haven't seen the history of the shitty businesses falls for their tricks again. Real free market economics wouldn't allow shitty businesses to use the government as aid for their business because there wouldn't be any government to begin with. In free market capitalism, if your business tanks, it's gone forever. In corporatism, you can fail a million times, but the government will always keep you up. Abolish the state and create a free market society where we wouldn't have to pay mandatory taxes to a poor investor. Embrace Free Market anarchism. Pro-Markets, Anti-state and anti-left.
873sanesociety: There is nothing wrong with nationalism.
874detroitmetro101: well you seem to be an expert in the taxi industry, so i wont challenge you there, lmao,...but, as far as monopolies setting prices and standards is concerned, with monopolies, like with utilities, which is what they are, utilities are monopolies, the government can more easily regulate them because of their scope, and in some cases, take them over as public services, that is if the government is a functioning democracy. and if they set their prices too high, or their standards too low, what they are essentially doing is making themselves vulnerable to cheaper and better competition. If taxis got you going, you should look at the history passenger rail in america, and for that matter freight rail as well... the point of all of this is that i am all for a basic social safety net, including universal income, that temporarily catches people from falling through the cracks permanently, and generation after generation, ie lack or downward social mobility, because in a society where all other forms of social institutions are destroyed, the state is a last resort. but, when we are talking about consumer goods and services, other than essentials-food, shelter, security, healthcare, education, than, i think it should be a free for all, create, compete, and innovate.
875Rodel Sanchex: That is assemble in Philippines Procycle industrial incorporated the owner is taiwanese
876현실 세계: Totally a true documentary...
877Raynell Foo: For those of you that believe trade is a zero-sum game, go pick up an economics textbook please.
878David Saintloth: The hard truth here is that as long as various nations have vastly different methods of efficient production for various types of goods creation and delivery, there will be an issue when the much more efficiently produced goods are shipped to places where they are relatively more expensive because the production methods are not as efficient. The answer is partly to allow time for the emerging markets to develop greater production efficiency in their domestic goods BUT it is MORE for those nations to look to the areas that they can still exert a dominating *efficiency advantage relative to external goods and services*. For African nations this means several areas that they should ALL be laser focused on building to world class and class leading status because THEY uniquely can. Most are derived from exploiting the relative low cost of African labor. 1) Manufacturing. This is why China and much of Asian companies that do manufacturing are trying to build deals in Africa. Africas labor costs are the lowest in the world and anything that requires physical human labor to produce will have high value when performed in Africa. Africa should be milking this opportunity. 2) Customer services. The off shore help systems now mostly coming from South Asian and the Phillipines needs to be embraced in Africa. Yet another high labor low cost service that can be taken over by African countries. 3) Solar production. African countries have some of the highest solar irradiaton on the planet. As a result African countries should be leading the transition to green technology in terms of capture and sale of electricity. These governments need to focus on hiring the experts from other regions to built home grown solutions that in short order would lead the world. 4) IT Services. Finally, the global distribution and access to computing resources and educational materials leaves Africa as a major potential market for building IT power for software development far beyond that of the current moment where East African and West African nations lead the shift. These need to be made national initiatives across Africa to teach programming to the populace...the input cost will be very low relative to the output that returns once those trained professionals are enabled to produce solutions for European and Asian businesses as part of home grown African technology consultancy firms...very similar to what has happened in India with TCS, Cognizant and other top firms with global reach. The jig is up as far as trying to gain parity at efficient production for agriculture. The west has mastered this to the point that farms are mostly automated today...there is no way that individual farmers in any African nation will ever be able to compete with this and taxing imports will only hurt the citizens who end up paying more for the goods. Those markets need to be dialed down to the natural level that the global competition is creating but efforts must be made to take people in those markets to one of the 4 markets targeted above. There needs to be a replacement of labor from high competitive markets to unique market advantages. This is not to say that some leveraging of tariff application should not happen...African countries should try to get the best deals possible to slow the rate of attrition of the cheaper external products into their markets as much as possible but they should not rely on those tariffs in any way...other than to give them the time to upbuild the critical markets that they can dominate with unique advantage. This recipe is not just an African by the way.....other centers of low cost labor (central and south America) also need to follow this playbook. Variably these nations are receiving a failing grade in recognizing what their strengths are and then playing to them in a global competitive landscape. Now it is true that political concerns drive a great deal of the current policy in those countries and a lot of that pressure comes from the outside....there the west is complicit either by implication or by explicit action to keeping the disadvantage train going those need to be dismantled so that best results along a trajectory that implements the above program could be achieved.
879omfug: Truly interesting, nevertheless Marx predicted that Capitolism would collapse due to many of the conditions mentioned in this doc yet in nearly every country in the world it has not.
88000Billy: Canada had won everytime in WTO rulings against unfair NAFTA trade practices(softwood lumber) of the USA. 4-0 yet they whine.
881wat dafuq: Free trade benefits the consumers, who are always the largest group.
882Sajal Jain: Kack Boon but they are exploiting the poor nations in Africa. Welcome to neo-colonialism.
883Mark Johnson: It's very one sided, it doesn't consider that the end goal of all economics is to increase the availability of products and services which improve our standard of living and the quality of life. Free trade, out sourcing, automation, immigration, etc. all produce products more efficiently at lower prices which improves the standard of living. This is a huge benefit to consumers. But there is a legitimate cost to consider when jobs are lost, that also decreases incomes and reduces the standard of living. The correct way to look at questions like these is not to focus only on the benefits or costs, but to compare both of them in a numerical way and see if there is a net gain or net loss. For example, you want to look at money lost out of the economy in lost jobs and then compare that with consumer savings. And see which is greater. These equations are pretty complex and there is obviously some debate around them but the majority of economists think there is a net gain to the quality of life with free trade. This is probably one reason why Trump justifies tariffs with national security (which doesn't add up) instead of economics. To make these more complex some demographics are more exposed to the benefits or downsides; this politicizes the issues and skews people perspectives on things.
884Bhavin Doshi: 39:11 Not one of those companies are in China or another developing world.
885Rick Davis: Isolates from the larger problem. Borders create the imbalances. everyone wins and loses. i.e. help your stockholders, hurt your employees, help your employees, hurt your consumers, help your consumers, hurt your stockholders. NOT COMPLICATED JUST LARGE...
886Michael Powell: Trade War? Who do ya think will win?
887K lani sabalii: First thing first you start with your opinion I cannot view this
888circusboy90210: nothing wrong with protecting your own economy. we should have heavy tarrifs , o wait aminute we already did. trump only wanted to enforce them. cheap foregin products are hurting us here. and we feed the world. seems liike that and generational wealth as us on top
889michael dave Soriano: Buy american? But she has a volvo. lol
890Bobby Chang: A coin has two sides.
891Famicom Nintendo: Fuck China AND America put the two presidents in a ring and let them fight it off. While the rest of the world can live in peace
892Terry Frederickson: what a joke she only buys american except her volvo and she hates trump?? she must be a real blonde
893Spannito: In less than no time exaggerated monopoly will set in and then we'll be looking for solutions for monopolists to relinquish some of the market. Do you really want us to repeat the mishaps of the past?.
894g davis: there are not 100,000 bike assembling jobs in the E.U.
895domitry jobby: the guy selling biciscles is such a hipocrite, he is happy that the eu puts tariffs on china made bicicles to protect the german brands, when he buys the same china made bicicles assembled in taiwan and branded as german so he can charge more. If no trade tarif would be applied the end consumer would get a better deal.
896GoingWhere: Fantastic DW. I'm an economist student at university, so I greatly enjoyed watching this program.
897Manjeet Singh: Moyo .A. corrupt african govt. so blame ur ppl who choosed that govt. Problems wont solve by blaming others
898Sekogas Iskren: USA is in problem with deficit. No, they are not. They pay the real work done by someone else with green paper they print since this green paper replaced the golden standard. USA with this act of replacing golden standard with US dollar (using situation being sole superpower in the western world) has enabled itself that all others will work for them for free and always be rich. Now, how they distribute that wealth internally is another problem. So americans should revolt against their domestic elite. And the rest of us should stop buying US dollars and use it as trade currency, in order not give a americans free lunch, because they don't deserve it.
899MetalAteMySoul: But free trade was never free. Us who live in the E.U have taxes imposed on us on whatever we buy outside the E.U. So if i was to use Ebay.com and buy something from the states i get fked on the bill. So we in the E.U shouldn't be so surprised that Trump now wants to do the same to products that come from the E.U to the states. He's just doing to the E.U what they've been doing to them for decades. These are good market practices.
900DW Documentary: Hi computername, did you say DW is a "hippie medium"??? And a "venture against German industry" ??? Interesting. But we would not recogneize ourselves. Thanks for commenting!
901Cece Dawson: History repeating itself, we need to learn from past mistakes.
902Henryk Gödel: I see global capitalism as just a way of making it easier for the wealthy global capitalists to exploit the entire world. Corrupt leaders of countries will whore out their countries for the personal benefit of themselves and their cronies. Then again, the world wide levels of poverty have been cut in half... Obesity is a bigger world problem than malnutrition and starvation is. For the most part, I think it's a force for good, but it needs to be managed in a better way with less waste and more insurance of worker's rights. Then you have to take into consideration that a lot of countries are poor due to their geological locations. Land locked countries are going to have less access to the markets than countries with ports. Then countries with no natural resources or little arable land aren't going to be less capable of producing anything of wealth, and other countries will have less of an interest in investing in those countries. Tariffs and protectionism do make sense, because if the countries that China exports to can't afford to purchase their products because there are no jobs then China won't make any money. I think if the US wants to keep up with the rest of the world then they're going to need make colleges and universities much cheaper so that the country can compete. Taking on a huge amount of student debt means college graduates have much less money to spend in economy, and incessant increase of automation replacing lower skilled jobs means an education is almost necessary. It's funny because these Universities that are always promoting an end to inequality do nothing but contribute to inequality by continuing to increase their tuition costs and their spending. They spend huge amounts of money just to attract the children of the wealthy to come attend their schools so that those wealthy students that graduate will then later donate money to school later in their life. It doesn't help that academia has been on a campaign of shitting on the working class and turning their backs to them in these past few years in exchange for disingenuous virtue. Sometimes I think their master plan may be to force the American worker to accept becoming cheaper labor and to be dependent upon the government... I guess it'd make it much easier for the masters of the universe to manage and control the commoners... I think the reason mass immigration to the EU is similar. It likely has more to do with bringing in cheap labor to help sustain the ponzi scheme than it has to do with human rights. It also will allow them to have a surplus of labor that will let them drive down the wages and the standard of living.
903yacir Rahov: Im shocked how an actual and informative doc made in Western world, is FINALLY considerating the interests of a 3rd world nation, its... never seen before approach!! Big thumbs up, but still.. im dazzled how in the absence of religion, and driven by profit for one or another 'sponsor', what would push DW to produce an objective and ethical work such as this.
904EdmondEnterprises Group Inc.: She has a watch on made in China
905jjjmail: This is actually quite well done
906Hassan Nour: 7:50 Both Norway and The Britains are not part of the EU guys. Fix your map its missleading. if that is wrong then a lot from this video could be wrong aswell. So I am skipping this video and disliking ofcourse.
907Alexander Somm: In the end, the consumer choses, tariffs or no tariffs.
908Deepak Kumar: DW is 1000 times better than BBC... Unbiased... Respect
909Ahmed Al Masud: Ancient Apparition exactly ! ?
910Team69 Racing: Ummm i think would pick a german tile over a chinese tile of course but price is the issue always.. But chinese might be cheaper but surely inferior.. In america we had homes built with chinese drywall it ruined the homes and contaminated them!! Not a couple houses but thousands and thousands!!
911Mr Bojangles: Bilateral trade agreements are the way to go.
912William Meyer: Hang on just one second! If this documentary's assertions about free trade are true, how the hell did global poverty drop instead of increase? http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/poverty.shtml
913Holybail Jung: Luigi LI finally the truth on the lie about china subsizing the industrieson large scale. The common thread is always chinese government subsidies for industries, china threat, china stealing amercan jobs, china stealing trade or commercial secrets... where is the proof in the news by the u-s and britis media coverage. These media with the state department and pentagon is not for intectual integrity or journslistic honesty.
914Paladine: free trade is always against the USA, we are free traders but the rest of the world is not
915Dejan Zajebancije: @18:15 She says Buy American, but then she drives a Volvo!? What a hypocrite!
916jukebox symposium: Before Tractors and Nations became Industrialized & 'Automated', Free Trade was likely a good deal.. I thought ford owned volvo.... guess not any more The underlying issue is not that abundance = lower prices, but that people in general are cheap! Either impoverished or Frugal.
917Duncan Moore: Cameroon has quite a few Female Owned business from the looks of this video.
918Jim Sephton: China can replace the EU's population and still have half a billion people in China. It is obvious that no too many can be accepted as migrants. Africa has the fastest growing population in the world, again only a few can be accepted. Free Trade only works if everyone is honest, which as we all know is an impossible dream.
919Sidtube10: That's a great point and I wonder if that particularly applies to centralization of economic power? Centralization of economic power seems very efficient and appealing...but it seems that corruption and inefficiencies soon ensues due to conflicts from vested interests.
920Bishesh Pandey: Chinese products have been in our country from the little things to the larger markets. Love from Nepal. Great Documentary by the DW considering its German origin and no bias in the documentary.
921Quantum Chang: Excellent point. Import tariffs only end up hurting the poorest people of that country by forcing them to pay far much more, whilst that tariff money collected ends up in the government's pockets. China has been lifting the living standard of the poor people of the world by making a lot of things much more available. Protectionism is going to hurt the poor and benefits the rich, because the rich will be the ones running the businesses of selling, whilst the poor are the buyers.
922Cynik: Bad economic news = Good news for environment !
923Christian Libertarian: What a lot of crap. No kidding, some industries lose in free trade. But others flourish. The net result is everyone does better. 3.9% unemployment in US. Can anywhere in the EU make that claim? Oh, yes, the UK. But they are leaving. Hmm.
924manutor: DW is becoming more like RT. Totally narrow-minded view on free trade, talking about small local farmers that are not even part of the world trade. To sell a few onions locally one doesn't require trade barriers and tariffs to be put in place.
925Turu Waign: Global trade has been doing well so that if anyone visits Tibet who still can drink Diet Coke or McDonald's if who prefers, who can fly with Boeing to Japan if he prefers, or who can use baby oil if she gave a shower to her baby. Because of world trade policy of globalization, we would enjoy our life based on the organization and rules we made through WTO. Without globalization, US international companies will be suffered significant which our talents cannot be shared by the people around world, like Hollywood movies, fast foods, beers, wines, coffee, fertilizers, airplanes, cars, and many many other great American products with American creativity and values of freedom and democracy. Protective policy will only hurt our own business and our value which we have been in pride for many decades. Destroying free trade rule is dangerous. What is it wrong for Chinese buy Chevy and Chrysler and Ford cars? What is it wrong for Chinese buying German cars and lathe tool machines and many different made in German or made in US or made in Japan? The whole world is a village now. All you need is working hard and stop being lazy, plus being creative like Bill Gates and many other American entrepreneurs and scientists.
926Peng Liu: No. He meant protectionism. Import tariffs not only hurt foreign exporters, but directly damages global trade and business on an unimaginable level then paralyzing if not crashing global investment due that industries own inherent faults. (more below) When you destroy investment confidence, you enter a feedback loop that stagnates depressions. Companies begin to downsize and conserve because of crap Consumer Confidence Index (factor to probability to earn in future year). Which in turn makes people jobless and less inclined to spend and repeat. This affect everything from hospitality to airlines. This also might well trigger the debt crisis that was barely refinanced 2010 in Europe and still not looked at in US. While there might be a depression in above countries. Why do you think people in Greece and Argentina ran to banks. NAFTA, GATT stuff like these were lowing hanging fruits for corporations that essentially shifted facilities overseas. And when protectionism hits, they become liabilities, usually expensive facilities built at loss, and liquidated at loss. The accountroids, as satirized by businesses laymen, tend to prune everything in order to balance out deficits that might shatter stock prices. It gets ugly. Globalism is an infestation sure. But it's like an odd gangrene that you know will kill you but not when, yet it makes your limbs stronger and is still functional. And if you try to treat one part. Every part starts to fester and not work. And the only treatment is to cut off both legs, arms, and maybe half a shoulder. Let, and let live until we can't. Gold is not a solution, Austrian econ is irrelevant, Friedman got us into this mess. It would be an easy solution to turn a blind eye and let production mushroom and everyone the happier. But that would mean destroying the concept of wealth, instating a world Marxian regime in the truest sense, destroying the finance industries. But I'd rather shoot my foot off as a American.
927Harry Warega: "For my friends everything,for my enemies the law"
928Michael: Europe and America gets rich while fucking over Africans no way who would have thought it
929Darren Navarro: Go Switzerland
930Calys Agora: So you want to see humanity forced back to the stone age, by government violence. Perhaps you need to first prove your (false) premise about free markets being bad for the environment, before you enter the throne as emperor of the new totalitarian ecofascist society. Shipping stuff in a container across the pacific uses LESS energy per item than having it delivered from your local store by car. Recycling around the world as is stands today is a net NEGATIVE on the eco-system. Just to illustrate how god intentions don't magically leads to good results. Not only should you never just assume that your good intentions will result in good outcome, but you should absolutely never assume that you or anyone else have any right what so ever, to even delegate to a representative, to have your good intentions shoved down the throat of other people, who might well be more right and more rational than you. Because that is the very nature of being a fascist. And why self-sufficient nations? That's a highly arbitrary line to draw. Nations are imaginary constructs of equally imaginary borders, drawn out on a map in the past, at a time when two megalomaniacs decided to stop killing each others minions. Seriously? Why not counties, cities or neighborhoods? Or why not just go all the way to the smallest minority, the individual? As an individual, you can do ALL the things you mentioned, right away, no need to ask anyone or force anyone else to do what you think is right.
931Levine Levine: The so called documentary is in fact a soft sell propaganda.
932Eston Zera: zero sum game will always remain. I literally wonder on what the policy is of many African countries, and the rest, to actually build up their domestic capacity. I would start with kill the cancer of corruption.
933Mana Montana: the global economy is far to complex to just do one thing or just do another.
934wild Bill: Tariff is a tax - taxation is theft. Tariffs serves the governemnt and hurts the people. Free trade is NOT free of rules it is just free of government interference.
935Arwyn: This is incredibly biased. They consistently say things that are factually wrong like claiming a trade deficit and debt are the same thing (it's not)
936Vic Thor Rhee: Protectionism is not the problem because you should really protect your “ Locals “. The problem is competion, where they start to produce cheap product, and let quality suffer the consequences . What we want is a product that has good quality with acceptable prize.
937Monaleenian: Blacks vs Everybody What?!! Who is they? Do you mean Europeans? Europeans have not destroyed African economies. Not even close buddy. The few times in history that African nations have had relatively successful economies, which benefited all their citizens to one degree or another, was when Europeans governed their countries.
938Omega Z: Everybody wants to get high paid job and buy cheap stuff and curse other people who are willing to work for less and make cheaper products. So many stores simple make billions of dollar by putting Chinese Products on their shelves and sell, well most money consumer paid is actually to feed the store, it is more expensive to hire a person to sell a product then get stuff made in China and ship it to your door. Who do you complain?
939DW Documentary: Thank you, GANGA SINGH Rathore for your feedback! We hope you will like some of other documentaries as well. Stay tuned for more!
940Remco Bomhof: They only showed one side of the argument. It is biased af.
941sentido kumon: This is a good documentary on free trade DW, thanks.
942876beauty: +shutterFire Studios When you're in a debt trap, you have two choices continue borrowing money to pay back debts for the rest of your life or attract foreign investors who provide employment and provide loans at a lower interest rate. Also, many of the foreign companies that are investing here are seeking funding by listing on the Jamaica Stock Exchange ( which was ranked as the best stock exchange in the world in 2015). So Jamaicans are owning a good percentage of these companies. The government just reduced the interest rate so private companies are increasing their investment instead of parking their money in the banks and buying government bonds. I mentioned before that we could not convert alumina to aluminium due to the higher energy cost,. Well China just signed a contract to build a natural gas plant and upgrade the alumina plant and create a smelting plant for aluminium. This will provide approximately 80,000 new jobs...Currently, about 160 000 people are unemployed.
943gsmd770: Wow as an American living in Germany and a love for expense bikes. This is a little shock. If all the frames are made dirt cheap? Why do they charge so much damn money for something that isn't even made in Germany anymore? Bikes haven't gotten cheaper,but more expensive! I knew about the big American brands back at home,cause I own a Specialized Epic 2008-2009 model. Made in Taiwan but wasn't at all cheap. None of the countries build they're products in America or Germany anymore,but they're still damn expensive?! Think of how many workers lost they're jobs at home in the states and in Germany. It makes me not want to stop buying the products? Free trade is suppose to make everything cheaper but I beg to differ.
944Nancy Baldwin: Free trade make people inter-reliant and is bad for the environment as a whole. I'd like to see it stopped. No more shipping containers. Very little is needed. Clothing, food, shelter. I'd like to see nations become self-sufficient. Building in ways that don't harm the environment. Making material for garments domestically. Relearning how to weave at home. I'd like to see debts on houses and rents go away. See people weaving at home, making their own garments. Growing food locally. Slaughtering meat locally. Local cheeses, produce. I'd like to see rivers open up from hydro electric dams, and people be able to fish.
945KruK666PL: Socialism is mental illness. Unions, protections. WHERE IS central planing? Great commedy.
946Sam da Silva: Interesting documentary, but nothing new. What gets me is so many people especially in the UK shout "won't work for slave wages" as in the minimum wage, but are happy to buy cheap goods made in the Far East where the people work in terrible conditions for next to nothing wages. At the end of the day we all buy too much, more than we need, because we want to flaunt our so called 'wealth' and feed our vanity, then moan like bitches on heat when there is unemployment.
947creativmindplay: looks like they could use some imported - or home-grown - birth control in Cameroon. Just sayin. 35:24
948Pan-European Nationalist: Foomanlol do you know why Africans don’t complain on average ? Because Europe floods Africa with cheap food. When you have a lack of people with ability to purchase local food because of cost cheap food is considered good. Africa’s food situation only gets worse every year.
949Holybail Jung: Vela Industries Inc it is american breaking international laws. They have proven rights on breaking agreement. Too many sad stoies about saddam hussein, iran nuclear deal, nuclear weapon on korean peninsular and taiwan, returning diaoyu island to china, sponsoring illegal arbitration on china' claims in scs, snnoping on world leaders and countries for decades and thrummbing accusation first by calling them theives, claiming the waters of all countirs as its waterway for access at will... no more if there is confrontstion with the chinese? Rand corporation is already withholhing the realities on the results on truth in suppressing the chineee for more than 70 yeas with arms sanctins, trade limitation, militsry bases more than 400 numbers around china, 24/7 sping, and stealing chinese developments by countless limitation rules.
950john biebel: Sajal Jain That's mosty the Chinese.
951komer west: No reason what so ever that a bycle should cost over $300.00
952m8tie2405: great program, you`d think that we`d know more about this as citizens of the EU, the rhetoric is all free trade as if it`s a righteous goal, what I don`t understand is why the African countries have signed up to the trade deal, they must receive some benefits, other wise it doesn`t make sense.
953lance ringquist: "ANY love and regard for our commons, the environment, is incompatible with “free trade: Free trade is a swarm of locusts, a pestilence, a curse on our happy homes: There are proven, timeless ways of living. Free trade is not one of them."
954Nadine König: I DESPISE Chinese SHIT. I never ever buy anything from China. It's cheap shit.
955Israel Solomon: Nigerian politicians have no idea about this. They champion the importation of foreign goods but can't run a simple steel plant.
956WayneTwitch: I hate China
957Priya Perera: great documentary , just like a crash course on free trade
958justin case: free trade here in the u.s. remember tesla last year ? the big 3 sued him saying we cant compete with tesla ? huh ? wtf ? yeah . tesla now has dealerships if im wrong here please inform me. of this
959wedge tail: This is completely distorting the issue... Yes free trade will hurt the bicycle manufacturers but what about the people who now have to buy more expensive bicycles? ie everyday consumers will get access to cheaper bicycles with free trade so will benefit albeit at the cost of the bicycle manufacturers
960Drew Peacock: Great Insight on why the world is being held back.
961Terrie Smith: Nothing is ever truly free. There's always a price one pays, in one form or another.
962BBN: Why don't African countries pull out of the WTO deal? It simply can't work for them. With this I think Nigeria made a wise decision by not joining the Africa Union free trade agreement. They would have flooded the Nigerian market with cheap imports from China and Europe. With up 200 million people Nigeria can benefit easily from internal trades alone.
963jorden durden: Free trade has allowed the expansion of economies and wealth this is all kyanisan crap
964Wanda Meadows: Jobs killed by protectionism? So if a country demands an even trade deal its killing jobs? Talk about arguing against your own countries interest. I tell ya what. I will make you an offer & if you dont accept it your killing jobs. OK, I want to start a business but im broke so I need you to fund it. With your funds ill create 1000 jobs but if you dont fund it that will be 1000 jobs you killed. So if you dont take that deal your a protectionist killing jobs. Now when you get into the lobbyist side of things where the people gathering the funds get a cut and the original people funding get nothing & stuck with the lose. Please explain to me how this is FREE TRADE & not a scam. You also have to consider that politicians are using money thats not theirs. Also its not the responsibility of any country to take on debt & bad deals to help build up other countries economies. This idea DOES NOT WORK. If it did we would have seen progress in the last 40 years. It doesn't work because you cant GIVE AWAY THINGS and expect it to be treated as the same things others have had to earn. America can not keep outsourcing its industry & keep paying high tariffs to other countries. All this scam is about is CHEAP LABOR & wages can not go up if we keep up this practice. Whats sad is that the American Agricultural Unions have chose to combat the uneven trade deals by importing cheap labor. Its not rocket science & its only making America poorer, more in-debt, while Politicians get rich. The FREE TRADE LIE is actually a WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION TACTIC. I thought these conservatives were against that. When you go buy something do you offer more money than it cost or offer more value i trade for the thing your buying? If a politician has an idea to lift the worlds population they should tell the American voter that when running for office. If Americans knowingly vote to do that its a different story. The drop in manufacturing jobs has hurt America & its been by design & sold as something thats out of our control. Dont you see how corrupt & dishonest that is?
965Chris Chen: South Korea has full support from the US when it started industrialization initially.
966ceicli: +kerryphillips1 Exactly how are women voting a problem?
967Pixie aka: Po-Hsuan Huang china steal tech has for years
968Популярно в България: free trade free world
969Chisom Meceber: and the Europeans and Americans are fighting Africa on tariffs and protectionism. what a world. and yet their peoples are first to scream they don't want migrants in their countries. Tell me something I don't know
970Art Hermansen: The antidote to free trade, as the coffee industry has learned, is direct trade. Compel your providers to become classified as this. The LC
971Troy Desole: This is a very good video program thank you for documenting this and breaking it down so we can all understand what is going on thank you, U.S.A.
972Armchair Warrior: You realize China has a trade deficit with Germany not the other way around. More German goods are in China etc.. https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/china/tradestats
973Syed Hammad Ahmed: So earlier Europeans colonized the whole world to plunder and loot so that they could benefit their respective home country, by losing some military. Now Germany leads the way showing everybody how to do the same under the disguise of "free trade" using WTO's unfair agreements.
974Steven Moore: Thank you so much for this eye-opening documentary.
975Jonathan Bello: Part 2: The Bright Promise of Free Trade
976Deep-fried south: One day the fuel will stop flowing and all the cheap transportation cost will end . How will we survive without Petro chemicals in agriculture or human culture?
977avib369: China is flooding world markets. Trump was right.
978M S: Glad to see DW presenting an unbiased perspective on this urgent ISSUE...
979boxertest: Very informative!
9801425363878: The EU and China ran massive tariffs against the US. It was ust that Obama never had the guts to stand up to it. Now Trump says "enough" and suddenly he is the bad guy? Come on! The argument for free trade is the consumer, who can choose from a greater range and pay less for the same amount of product. The tariffs, as well as export overhang in European countries, hit poor people there the hardest. It would have been cool for this documentary to pick that up, but it never did.
9818000jk: I agree that tariffs should be put on all Chinese products. If people supported local manufacturing and the companies did not outsource to make more profit, then no one would have issues about aggressive foreign competition. The Chinese have become too powerful as the companies did not diversify sources of production in various countries, now everyone is dependant on China.
982Ali Al-Mahdi: Listen to me yea.... I got absolutely nothing to say!
983Henry L: Nothing is free
984Puruan Langit: China products mostly below the standard quality...
985HUY PHAM: Teamototo TV That's a myth. The iPhones are only assembled in China. The parts come from all over the world.
986Monaleenian: "Without protectionism, trade can never be fair". Seriously? Wow! The narrator of this video hasn't a clue. All trade is fair. If either party to a trade decides that the trade is not fair then it doesn't happen. And protectionism leads to absolutely crazy decisions, like the commercial growing of bananas in Iceland! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_production_in_Iceland
987BJ82: At 10:40, it is interesting that the business owner is generally critical of protectionist tariffs with the exception of his business and his industry. It is interesting to watch the human psychology of these issues play out, because many people only think of themselves and what helps just their own lives and no one else. It is hard to get people to have empathy for others in today's world.
988plainbob V.2 boo: Funny. These people want protectionism and it's ok. THe US does it and it's bad!
989Kalydosos: I really like allot of the comments here some very well put together and informed on how the world really works DW did good job on this documentary the BBC wouldn't do anything like this they'd do what they usually do blame the victims. Many of these comments sound too sensible to be from British or Americans with their predilection for narrowing everything down to race I don't know what's going to change this situation. Rest assured the British and Americans will find a way to blame this one Russia too.
990for reals: he just said doodie.
991Francoise Loffler: I cannot understand how the family Smith are not be more sensitive and buy Made in Germany instead of buying cheap sh...quality...it is better to have one good thing as thousand cheap...pity that people do not think more! Buy what is made in your country!
992I COME FROM SUN: Free trade is for welfare trash and brainless criminals. South Korea and China are working hard and beating the shit out of you retards
993ettekamba6969: FreeTrade is to Europe and all other western world while no buying from Africans.so Africans needs to chose who to buy from and what to buy and vice versa.
994Lonnie Fortney: China only pays $1.50 for per hour that's why they make everything.
995Douglas Mackinnon: Excellent documentary. So true. Industrialists and politicians hate protectionism - except for their own back yard. Free trade is a myth- it doesn't exist now, it won't exist in the future. Democratically elected governments have an electoral obligation to protect the jobs and income's of their citizens. There should be a balance between total tariff free exploitation and monopoly and tariff paralysis. The task of the WTO is to find that balance
996Blacks vs Everybody: tom foolery Many have already
997Toraguchi Toraguchi: China does not do free trade, it cheats. The government gives companies tax breaks, subsidies and cheap loans to export and kill foreign competition. These are deliberate predatory policies.
998lou: And for the most part, a better discussion has occurred about the film than you would ordinarily get because people do care. Barring some who have made it too simplistic and jingoistic.
999HardWarUK: The global market is in collapse. Neo Capitalism, brought in by Thatcher and Reagan in the 70's, has faliled. Trick down doesn't work, and giving corporations total freedeom ahs been a distaster. But growth cannot continue and is going down in almost every western country. This is partly to do with lack of energy, and for every extra percentage of growth you need an extra percentage of energy. In effect, we are looking at the last 30 years of Western Civilization as we know it......
1000Tannercl101: they pay 1.50 but amenities are included as well, most lot of the money goes back to there family in the rural area where its extremely cheap to leave.
1001Love Spirit: We are stupid world. We are destroying the planet over stuff.
1002Paul Drake: Thanks DW a very insightful documentary. I have seen what "free" trade globalisation has done to NZ's shoe and clothing industry. The reason Chinese imports are so cheap is that China has a wage slave industry.
1003No Hope Equals no fear: This makes me want to buy nothing.... ever again. Everything is rigged.
1004lou: +albedoshader Ah ha, now you are bringing in complexities that the simple minded will not notice, too busy with slogans and hucksters.
1005imp3r1alx: Well.. i wonder who the losers are... people who buy expensive items but produced locally .. or those who buy cheap items from abroad.. cause on early times price equal quality... but now.. on 2018.. people are getting great quality items but far cheaper from abroad... you may think that we'r helping the locals, but in the end.. you can save money to be used else where.. instead you only got one P.S. if countries really want to stop importing items... they can just make a law that ban everything (every single thing) that is imported... don't you guys wonder why they don't ??
1006Fumin 268: Great documentary. DW is my favorite news! Thank you!
1007D. N.: The constant in all examples is that consumers want to pay less and have more, so they end up buying Chinese products without considering if people or even children were exploited, or the environment polluted in the manufacturing process, even though many of those consumers would care about these things if they knew. So, the consumer buys a cheap product without realizing the damage done to make it. Then, these preferred cheap, unregulated products destroy local, regulated manufacturers and the same consumer who bought cheap Made in China ends up unemployed. Isn't then a matter of being an informed consumer instead of a greedy one? Isn't better to buy less good, regulated products even if they are more expensive than many unethical ones? Taking the fashion industry as an example, do we really need so much cheap clothing made abroad instead of a few done locally? Do we need so many cheap IKEA furniture made in China? As I see it, is a matter of values (ethical, good quality products) and be willing to pay their price, that is, the real value of things done well.
1008Jaap Van der Horst: Buy local, but worldwide, cut out the middle man and women who get rich off the locals (wherever they are).
1009bsklasika: Alarm fur Kobra 11
1010David Shin: there are no two sides. Free trade is good. Just think about how much you were paying back in the days and now? what bring down the price of consumer goods?
1011Sergey Anonimous: Thank you. Very interesting.
1012InfoChina: bing li wage is increasing in China that's a common sense. 英文不好可以用中文
1013Mobbs 8: Yet another quality documentary of DW. Amazing and super informative!
1014Irene Austin: haha ... protectionism did NOT result in the second world war!.
1015Sajal Jain: EU has protectionist policies and frowns upon the others who do so. This sums up the video.
1016Al Fabeech: So protectionism and nationalism is the only reason Germany and the West are successful?....
1017Guilt Azaour: economy based on trust my ass, lies after lies for financial and political gain... but don't worry, blockchain is coming
1018Trev Ken: Would we even need tariffs if we used truly global currencies? ?
1019vishnu seelan: The West had no issues in exploiting every unholy tool offered by capitalism, colonize and loot other nations until it was profiting them and exploiting Asia. Now, when China turned the tables at their own game of capitalism and plays the game better than anybody else out there, the West cries like sissies.
1020JY Lin: why the bikes are so fking expensive. Who's getting the larger piece of pie?
1021I pee in my sink I'm afraid to come out my room: I have read all the comments they all have a good point ,but who should we pick ? let's BLOW UP the world ,start from scratch ?
1022Earth is Our Home: One more thing people forget, China does not respect patents and IP's of the inventors, any design shared with them is officially cloned and sold on their own brand names. which means Germany is spending or research and benefits goes to China. And they install spy softwares on many server chips they manufactured. Great.
1023ratchet500000: As a Chinese person, the point of the video isn't that China is a villain, but net exporting countries cause problems for net importing countries. People really need to stop trying to be the victim.
1024worddunlap: Making China great again....
1025Pan-European Nationalist: Unreliable Narrator 66 The secrets of manufacturing porcelain was actually taught by the Chinese to European traders, notably a Jesuit François Xavier d'Entrecolles, however porcelain was already being produced in the west by then particularly in Germany saxony who created alternative means of creating it.
1026Halcyon: Particularly the rubbish that comes out of China and Japan. Culturally they seem to absolutely love bright plastic stuff and even more selling it. Christmas is particularly offensive when you take in all the packaging and the toys that fall apart or are neglected after a couple of days.
1027Korasones: What i bigot Sarah Parker buying a Volvo, no excuses
1028Alvaro Rangel: I don’t think this documentary was very objective. They failed to mention the wage increase a person will feel if they are allowed to purchase cheaper products. They mention protection jobs, but failed to mention the jobs not created in the import, export, transport, and retail industry.
1029circusboy90210: 38:48 emotional unsupported statement. wealth is created. nothing stops poor nations from building industry on their own.
1030Jami B: Fair trade is all we ask.
1031R. Api: Why don't each countries look after their own people. Grow your own, Eat your own. Build your own, use your own. All this trade Rubbish is about Making the Rich RICHER.
1032Dolores Ramos: Thanks DW for posting this video I appreciate it cheers
1033Elton Obeng: chigasaki06. It called Neo Colonialism
1034Ron: Companies in China can put products on the world market much cheaper because 1. they don't have the costs of regulations including environmental regulations, 2. they pay the workers very little, 3. they dump products on the market below cost because they are supported financially by the Chinese government, 4. they manipulate the currency markets, and 5. They have extreme protectionist measures in place with respect to tariffs and a lack of protection for intellectual property (the production of knock offs). Try starting Unions in China and the organizers will get "knocked off". In other words Trump is right that the world does not really have free trade. That is one reason why Apple Computer has $150 Billion in cash and yet the workers that assemble iphones make very little. Until China becomes more of a responsible actor with respect to protecting their workers and the environment, China should have to pay a tariff equal to what those items would cost. The tariffs could be reduced if 1. They reduce tariffs on foreign goods, 2. They pay their workers more than a slave labor's wage, 3. If it can be demonstrated that they put into place enforceable environmental regulations, and 4. the Chinese no longer manipulate the market (i.e. exchange rates, government policy).
1035axiomist: This is wonderful news ! Im glad that these tariffs still exist. I thougjt it had all turned into a free for all. Of course, the ideal scene would be to stop all this so called free trade. Its just an excuse for big corporations to save loads of money and increase their profits(which savings dont get passed on to consumers). Meanwhile the local jobs disappear, like they have here in the US. But, hey, screw the workers, as long as the big boys can make more and more money, right? Before all this bullshit started it was super easy to get a job. You just went door to door to companies, until you got one. Usually it would take a few hours at most. Jobs were goin begging. Now you have to go to a third world country to get work.
1036bad guy: Maeu, he didn't say anything about Immigrants stealing jobs, you did ? Most Americans from all class are quite successful and hardworking or else they wouldn't be where they are, so don't make things up. Most people are lazy. Its good for immigrants to come over and work for less (most times) but not for locals that know their rights/worth. Immigrants help a country but at the same time can hurt it.
1037GO GREEN: Loved it. Keep up impartiality and strive to find the truth! Just like you always do :))
1038cr4zyu: The U.K. built its global empire on protectionism. Now the City of London through its controlling agencies, long planted within the EU & the U.N. wants free trade now that it controls policies 'behind the scenes." The write/ narrator sound like a socialist advocate. She's a definite Trump basher, re Trump's attempt to protect U.S. jobs & products. The WTO promotes communism. Leave countries along & leave each country manage their own people & markets. Multinational corporations are giant trouble makers & profiteers. For example wanted cannabis/ hemp/ jute trade stopped. Why? Because 7000 products can be made from a this versatile natural product that virtually anybody can grow virtually anywhere. However, oil based synthetic products, has replaced many of the products that were derived from cannabis. Also cannabis, a bi annual crop, can make ethanol which 'threatens' oil multinational profits. Australia will soon join the scrap heap of history as it is controlled by socialist U.N. globalist policies that saw the dismantling of Australia once great manufacturing infrastructure. Now over 50% of Australians have government jobs which produce nothing but extra costs for those enterprises that actually produce something. Government jobs are prized by migrants who now virtually control the department of immigration, which of course assist yet more migrants to become 'public sector parasites'.
1039EGH181: zerillimassimo other than food, US products don’t make it to the marketplace. My wife constantly sends American products to her friends and family in China. They practice protectionism
1040Prepper III%: Well that confirmed everything I thought. Industrialization globally isn't good unless you're not a nationalist.
1041Brian Breckon: +kerryphillips1 Yes, and Canadian too. They voted for 'Pretty Boy' Trudeau who is in favor of Sharia law and honor killings. He could be 'cutting' a three year old right in front of them and they'd swoon over his hair.
1042arjunuk1: china copies then under mines the price captures the market than controls it
1043J Vili: Thanks Donald Trump !
1044justin: That's why I support president trump
1045Spiritual Anarchist: Globalism or protectionism. The choice between two evils.
1046Idir benferhat: Interesting :) so there is no global trade, no globalisation, and if there is a "national" interest to protect, what is a nation? It seems that if we stop worshipping the golden calf, and if we rebuke the divinity of the Dollar, then all the concepts of globalisation and multiculturalism collapse and we're back to the nation-states :) May be traditional families, children, and cultures are the only thing worth protecting?
1047Tusk: btw tarifs does not protect job truth is it protects the elites without them every one would simply be forced to lower the prices lower the wages thus causing their national curency to rise in value because if everything is cheaper it means you can buy more stuff with 20$ then previously you just need to make sure every thing drops in prices at the same time so make it stamble but sadly most humans including those that made this video are to stupid to understand this so they keep try to keep prices high while trying make more and more money without realizing that in overall they are losing monay nationwise because their actions are causing inflation
1048J T P Gomez: Instead of free trade we should have fair trade. Except that this goes against the exploitive instincts of most people, especially those at the top. For them “exploitive” means giving expression to their “predatory” side.
1049Napster __: China is the biggest evil of free trade!!
1050terence barrett: With our country's doing these things,made cheaper and in trading, with China,tywan etc making everything,, Europe must pay there people all peoples including unemployed,I'll disabled a weekly benefit,as a living kind of wage,,
1051Wet Husky: @35 This a human being trying to survive Hollywood. She is a true human being, unlike the 'Clooney's' of the world.
1052Sidtube10: The trade of veal, pork, milk, chicken etc brings up the ethics/animal welfare issue, which was loosely touched upon in this video. Even if we ignore the animal welfare aspect, the impact on human health and environment is too big to ignore! I am certain that humans will find mass produced alternatives to this in the next decade or so.
1053Andrew Daley: Seasonal protectionism seems to make sense.
1054LIBERTY for humanity: even if the flags are made in USA the owners of the factory are from China government ?
1055rolldeepNASA: patriotism: ruining the world throughout human history!
1056Joe Pierre: I am a nationalist I believe in America the American worker and the American people and not a globalist and I do my best not to buy anything from another country but a little thought for you so many things from spices to cake mix and everything else imported into America and they may include ingredients that wouldn't be legal to use here do you not understand you poison yourself with globalization you destroying jobs you destroying families UT populating hilarious because the fact we need to bring manufacturing back to America and stop helping the rest of the world we cannot protect Japan from their evil past of what they did to Asia all the murders killing rapes what was their total score in World War II Chinese and 50 million others that's 90 million people they murdered in World War II not even the Germans as bad as they are what did they kill 20 million and the Second World War 4 million in the first World War has nothing to be proud of Germany that's a fourth of what Japan did in the Second World War God bless President Donald J Trump and blue lives matter please help make America great again
1057Jan Mardi: Brexiteers should watch
1058Diputs era Sbara: 36:53 man slaps chicken 20:20 did this documentary really just blame "the horrors of the second world war" on "protectionism and nationalism?" and conveniently omitted "socialism"
1059Dave Wineman: 17:20 Flags are made in the US by prison labor for almost no pay. I don't like the loss of jobs, but being proud of flags made by almost slave labor... there is nothing to be proud of that.
1060greg james: Interesting to note, so many urban areas importing their products yet have vast skyscrapers. Those offices are for stock brokers, lawyers, designers, engineers, doctors, politicians, planners, teachers, etc. The rest of the populations struggle to get by on construction jobs that build those buildings or stores that sell imported products. Pay scales leave most people strapped to pay costs of living, leaving most unable to save set aside funds for entertainment, emergencies or retirement. Yet there are all these schmancy skyscrapers filled with banks, insurance, lawyers, politicians, planners, media pundits, & etc while those who manufactures everything in China Taiwan India Mexico live in squalor comparatively. People are leaving CaliF*g'ya after destroying their economy, & from Venezuela where they voted for Chavez's pipedream socialism. Do the math, 2 + 2 = 4. If you don't say what you know & believe, but say something else than you know to be true then you are still surrendering to whoever compels you say what you know is false.
1061marco brenni: A brillant and absolutely true analysis: this worldwide "free" trade is an enormous fake!
1062Stephen de Tarczynski: Another great doco by DW. Free trade/protectionism is a hugely important issue. It would be great to see a follow-up on the impact of NAFTA on US workers and Mexican farmers.
1063Shine FB: The nature of the capitalism is to pursue the maximum profit so to make the biggest money. You want to keep the factory within your country, then the price is high, then you will complain everything is too expensive. It is not China that want your factories, it is your country's capitalists want to make the maximum profits. Who you should blame? Why Karl Marx is great, because his "Capitalism" work gives deep insight about today's economical world.....
1064Syed M. Sohaib: es gibt immer vorteile und nachteile.
1065Mame A: Thanks for that info! I never thought true free trade was anything negative, but this gives another good view to why free trade is positive.
1066Tech Gents: The issue is wealth distribution disparity and not due to trading itself. One option is to go back to the Gold Standard as opposed to using Fiat currencies which is easily manipulated.
1067Paul Wilson: contains leather (murder) and taxed at a lower rate??
1068Takyi Kobbie: tom foolery most Chinese companies r relocating to Ghana and Ethiopia... They r as stable as Developing countries can be
1069David George: We boycott USA goods here in NZ- because the USA pulled out of global warming agreements.
1070Saptarshi Chatterjee: My dad acts the same as that lady at 17:30 . He refuses to buy anything that's made in China.
1071daveat191: Hummm If the US has a tariff on steel of say 25%, the US Treasury gets that 25%, the domestic steel maker hires more and probaly raises prices a bit- that's good but the consumer ends up paying the 25%-- that's bad and is like an extra tax. Without the tariff the consumer pays less but the US loses jobs and the government does not get the 25%. Solution: Worldwide wage and price controls are impractical SO the practical solution is free and EQUAL trade. They sell us a limited amount and we sell them a equal value amount. Things don't get lopsided or too unfair. Who wants free and unfair trade? Not perfect but a solution.
1072a099258: I suspect the Made in USA label was Made in China
1073Foogafoog: 28:10 you should have said “fertile” for “fruchtbar”
1074Marie Ji: If corporations couldn't move their business overseas to make more money via cheap labor and materials, people would still have a job in their home country. No country exports jobs, just goods. Unfortunately, a business will cut labor and material costs first to reach a profit.
1075Ryan Rodrigues: Our ancestors have taken risks so we have too.
1076Kevin Loving: Yes these companies like that bicycle manufacture in Germany charges like he is using German workers. I bought a Chinese built electric tricycle for $1,300
1077Director Lunchie: pride can't feed your family. the problem is the West would like to be able to afford everything, so everythig must be made in another country that offers cheaper labour, but they don't like the idea of losing job opportunities..... if H&M pay £7 an hour for the Brits to make the clothes they wear, they wouldn't be able to afford shopping in H&M.
1078Vivian Lee: I'm an immigrant too (like literally my parents came to USA with 5 dollars lol), but now we are upper class and we love America...this country gave us a life we can never have in our home country. I love it here, no things are not perfect but I trust in this country...you have to love your country and all that it gave you otherwise why are you here?
1079adum50: I dont know man, there's a few point I think the documentary should addresses, the bike situation is because China pretty much subsidized their industry so its not fair to begin with and yes the US should slap tax on that until China stop subsidizing like the EU but then there's so much tax you can imposed on a country until the counter party start imposing tax on you then you will have to go into detail on what tax did the US already imposed on Chinese product, its a complex issue and I think the documentary fail to show that side of the coin.
1080Hia Pom: Waking up way way too late. It's kind of like how Africans used to sell other Africans into slavery a few centuries ago. Nowadays it's big business doing the selling out...
1081GuerrillaFPS: Trade wars lead to world wars... it's about to get lit
1082Akbar, Allard Freichmann: Get political active and involved.
1083Eric Bowman: this was a really bad nonsense filled documentary.
1084ALEXANDER LAWSON: The driving force of the US economy, is the market system, the optimisation of profit and payments to shareholders. Where best to do this, in low wage, tax and regulation economies, is in the far east/China. It is Americas own business elite who have destroyed the manufacturing base in the USA thro moving production to these areas. Wise up this docu is pedaling the same old lies, blame the rest of the world for the mistakes of the US governing elite. Now the narrative is " lets start a war", fuckin hell , dont listen to the liars.
1085Pablo Yong: Protectionism is a sham, you take money from the left pocket and put it in the right pocket, instead of being invested, it is wasted. Rich people who hide their money in tax havens are also wasting money, instead of investing it. The countries and people who follow those practices are sacrificing wealth, effectively becoming poorer (i guess Swiss don't care, they can take the blow) but then don't complain when other countries surpass them.
1086Mickey: Thank you so much. This video is so enlightening
1087ResidualSelfImage: Credit is not free in free trade ... Free trade does not allow for fair and open access to markets via monopolies... Free trade without regional money credit to leverage for allowing for foreign credit access to regional markets give foriegn credit agents greater power over regional labor and credit markets....
1088marie lubin: So Chinese really own the world .
1089Bastiat in the Andes: First comment that really makes sense.
1090q9r8s7t6u5v4w3x2y1z0: 20:20 come on
1091Ale Esp: The officials that make deals with other countries without thinking twice about their own population, jobs and future are the crooks being paid millions by multinational companies. The people have the power to stop this business by not buying foreign products. Becoming your own farmer, producer and seller within your community.
1092Said Toshimaru: Whenever there's assymetry of strength, freedom always favoures the stronger part.
1093Microphunktv: Not really, stopped watching at 20~ with that bullshit. Germany didn't have economic crisis because it produced its own goods.. Hitler literally brought Germany out of depression and poverty, that's why everyone loved him. Hitler was a fucking hero who thought against jew evil.. Can't believe normies still believe the bullshit fakehistory they are injected as a child , when they are ~12y old impressionable children...
1094SHOCKPROOF™: Great documentary!
1095skylineXpert: This Is why I buy spanish garlic. the pollution caused by the chinese grown ones (lead In the water and shipping) and the subsidizing by "commie" Beijing politicians who basicly are old farts.
1096Erik Brown: Whose fault is it that you work in a dying industry? Or that your skills can be replaced by a foreigner at half the cost? You beg the government for help? Pathetic. Learn a new skill. Adapt. It's what your forefathers did. How many horse and buggies do you see? None. You had to learn how to drive a car. They didn't beg Trumpy to make the cars too expensive for people to drive. Learn programming, engineering, technology. We don't need your old "plant" or "factory" anymore. Winy little snowflake welfare queens.
1097408Magenta: How can you describe Philadelphia as a dynamic city when there is no employment?
1098SATAN SOLDIER: this is about enslavement of the the people
1099Sebastian The great: 408Magenta sanders supports protectionism to
1100hoang tran: Free trade is the opposite of fair trade and THIS IS what the WTO doesn't seem to understand!
1101agentnevermore: People are generally myopic and just regurgitate what they hear without hearing arguments from both sides. That's why nuance is important than a blanket "FREE-Trade" or "Tariffs for all"
1102Roger K: Krisztián Kőrösi without tarifs you dont have jobs to go to and earn a salary to buy anything..
1103aodhfinn: Not one word about the environment .... absolutely shocking collapse.
1104mikecar52: great show. Thank you
1105A C: Excellent video!
1106David: You opened with the conclusion that free trade is bad while analyzing the effects of free trade. That's hardly good reporting. Free trade has done more to grow economies and reduce poverty around the world than any other force. However, it has come at the expense of domestic manufacturing jobs in developed countries which have instead moved more to developing countres. It's definitely not without problems, but it's also been good in a lot of ways. Not least of which is the fact that countries which trade a lot tend not to have major conflicts. The like of which would probably destroy the world if modern nuclear nations fought one another directly. But it's definitely not fair for big countries to impose tariffs on imports but demand no tariffs on their exports.
1107Rovon Ramwem: Typical. The African farms and rears his meat, The west imposes it's products on him, his farm becomes redundant, entitled ignorant westerners laugh on the internet that the African cant feed himself to save his life without help. This is replicated throughout and in every field.
1108Valerian Pantsulia: Sorry but it's not made in Japan ...Itali, Germany , USA or other trusted countries. Another way it's dangerous ... Better to buy good rebuilt vintage original. Inside made in china nice looking but ...deliberately... low-quality parts & components. Never ever trust made in China products. They are stealing intellectual properties from everybody & producing cheap garbage.
1109Alan C: if every country doesn't import nothing, sells only what they produce, where can Germans get there petroleum and gas? Before the US produce Oils and Gas again, Donald Trump had to beg for Middle East oil!!! Free trade is all about letting everybody on Earth do the part they are best for, just like the Germans making their cars and trade to each other with these best done goods. Should the world stop buying German cars?
1110lucrative lyrics: i remember going into a small convenience store @belize .. there were locally grown pineapples for sale, right next to canned pineapples from philippines - the canned food (imported from half-way around the world) was 3x cheaper than the local fruit
1111Nair: Free trade is a joke, there is no such thing besides a scramble for big business to find the cheapest way to make a product at the cost of the human. Until all countries follow human rights, environmental enforcement, and international trade law, aggressive tariffs in certain industries must exist . Protectionist policies in and of itself is short sided . It is what country others choose to have a trade relationship with to support a national level economy. Kudos to DW with the Cameroon example about onions.
1112Julian Demicoli: Made an exception, that is what we call a hypocrite
1113David Lee: Americans have lived a life of luxury and glory on the might of their military. They have become egomaniacs and think everything right of themselves. But it is those at the top who are dangerous who would go lash out on any nation that does not want to obey them. America have bore down on many small/weak nations, but they have now come to face nations that are able to withstand American nonsense. The bitterness these American leaders are unable swallow will drive them to attempt to try their luck to up the ante. This will bring further loss and disasters to the American people. It'll be too late if they dont wake up.
1114YAHMON YAH: To DW documentery: Glad to be on board! Love this video. When are people going to realize that there IS NO future IN deceptive free trade? Especially the party that is perpetrating it! Common sense tells you there's propaganda in it!
1115Sam Collins: Freedom for what, is freedom from what, should be the 1st civics lesson for peoples of free nations. This is a neglected question, and turned into accusations of being against freedom. Environmental/health laws/medical cost, are frequently pulled off the bargaining table, but the lead to unstable positions(somebody is paying that bill). State run, or private healthcare able to bargain out people, hmmm, Reflect The Freedoms given in the deals. Freedom to do and be responsible for your actions, relative to peoples affected, is not a world we live in. Going to x country from Y country to avoid administrative wisdom, one persons freedom can flip the argument to another persons socialism because we have blinders on. Add life and equity, you'll get classification of countries abilities and different administrative perspectives. Thanks DW for your documentaries provoking the world. Even now I just realized my perspective on the EU as either a economic versus a social\economic union drastically reframes brexit arguements.
1116Seabreeze Coffee Roasters: Free Trade, Fairtrade etc are Western Feelgood BS to mask the truth of deception and power by the West (in which I live)!
1117Seamus Howling: The German lady would get it.
1118hellbendert35: and who ultimately suffers? the consumer, thats right its you, you plebs. tariffs and taxes are cancer.
1119Butterfly Massacre: The winner of free trade is the consumer who has a world market to browse the best quality product for their currency...DUH!
1120Abad Daim: Simplistic. You still havent' gotten it
1121Karl Whalls: Just Capitalism doing its thing, concentrating power, altering the ecosystem.
1122DW Documentary: Hi Samme Samme-nlar, interesting choice...what makes you choosing the two of us? Best wishes
1123Joe Caner: Free Trade is the euphemism given to the predatory practice where first world industrialized nations destroy the fledgling economies of developing nation by the unregulated dumping of the former's heavily subsidized surplus output unto the markets of the latter.
1124Ghost Banned: Everything cost more and more, rent ,food ,gasoline, taxxes...but my wage is lower. More then 80% of the people at my job i cannot even understand ,they speak different languages...to be honest life is not good, no child should be born here. Life is only good for the rich assholes, life is crap when you are their slave.
1125J M: DW documentary don't talk about taking white Farmers land without compensation. This guy who's with their bread world she must be steak and lobster cuz he's pretty fat
1126Cr34t1v3: Free trade being a deceptive promise would be all but logical as ''free trade'' is an ad hominem. That is if trade implies that an exchange amongst buyer and seller at a certain rate is what is established. As a certain rate is in exchange in order to trade while rate adds value, it's value added that disables trading from being free of expense. When value-added disables the establishment of trading free of expense a deception is created as that what is impossible can't be promised.
1127chokkan7: The narrator drops the 'protectionism' bomb at several points in reference to other countries' stance against Chinese products, but it's common knowledge that almost every export industry in China receives massive government assistance in order to remain as ultra-competitive as they are.  Does China lead in quality?  Innovation?  Or only in undercutting the prices charged by more independent industries in other countries via its predatory alliance of government and industry?  While I'd agree that learning to compete against them is still the first order of business, there are instances where protective tariffs are more sensible than is argued here; would anything truly worthwhile be gained by inflicting economic (and subsequent social) turmoil in countries like Switzerland in favor of, say, Bangladesh?  I feel the same way about the Cameroon situation, and agree that they should be able to engage in protecting their agricultural markets against imports; it's foolhardy for any country which can feed itself to trade that away without getting something better in the bargain.  Attributing the mass migration to Europe based solely on trade imbalances is oversimplifying the case, though; there is far more behind it than just that.
1128slayer 1: The poor innocent lady doesn't understand that the u.s. in US of A implies that it is a corporation a business in fact like Sears or Vons don't take my word for it look it up USA versus u.s. versus America or any combination of the three
1129Valerian Pantsulia: They are liars, trade it's never free//////
1130TheSaintST1: 17:46 Well stop making shitty products then! The tariffs on American cars is ridiculously low in Japan, yet Japanese people don't want them.. why? Either they are the wrong product for that country or they are just crap... Make better products and the people will buy...
1131Price Harris: A good analysis of global trade. The only brashly inaccurate piece is the now stereotypical German distancing of the cause of WW2 to US Glass-Steagle Tariff Act. Signed by a US President who led the relief effort for Belgium refugees from a different World War somebody started but certainly wasn't an America that has been perfecting and improving its democracy since the 18th Century. Place blame for causational not correlating forces. Put blame on Germans, monarchies, and Europeans for both World Wars is far more accurate and their inability to create a lasting peace in the Treaty of Versailles that directly caused a second World War. Remember history accurately and we will continue to learn from it and not repeat tragic mistakes. But good news piece. A balanced economy focused on fair and free trade with democratic countries big and small is important.
1132Private Account: Communist backward propaganda and lies. The great wreckers on show.
1133behzadutube: OK, you argued well for the protectionist side of the argument but didn't explore the free trade point of view in depth. For instance, in the example of bicycles, we can have two scenarios: A: the consumer buys 120$ American bicycle and a worker has a job in the ameriacan factory. B: the consumer buys the 100$ Chinese bicycle and has extra 20$ which he pays for yoga class, and a yoga instructor has a job. It is your choice as the government where to spend this 20$, in protected industries (A) or in service economy (B). Different countries in different sectors decide between these two strategies based on their many considerations (security, social impact, growth, ...,). But reality is NEVER as sweet and simples as tarriffs=jobs. Indeed many of the poor countries you mentioned come out of decades of strict protectionism, which sadly could not do any miracles.
1134LIBERTY for humanity: just because China is exporting everything to the whole world the whole planet is suffering the consequences of burning millions and millions of of oil just in traspotartatios is like bringing water FROM one ocean to other ocean because is chip but the whole world is going to to be destroyed by GREEDY PEOPLE buying from the biggest violators of humanity and stealing everything from the whole world ????
1135J A Caro: So we pay for brands here in the US, I recently visited an REI store, bikes from "Germany" cost around $800 bucks. Turn out are made in China!
1136Jānis Rišis: World is going to yobles young people place, who only lears but newer gets mony.
1137Thecontrodude proversial: Bobby wage is one thing, scalability, how easy to make a product, most tech products in China have big radius
1138Cris Yorke: Most of my stuff are made in Europe and the US. I don't really buy China stuff at all except of cables and wires, and some cheap clothes for home use.
1139Yiliant: If you want a example of protectionism working. look at putin. Evertything he needs is in Russia and can't be cut off by embargo. His country gets to be a isolated giant that is slowly eating the world with the threat of nuclear weapons. We can't just take the food off his people's plates or the armor plate on their tanks. GO RUSSIA GO!
1140Natural American XR7: 17:35 jealous racist & that mutt with her hasn't seen how she really feel about her
1141erdem k: 23:37 Tell that to the German milk powder exported from Bavaria to in the middle of nowhere in Africa where local producers are suffering. This is just white man is trying to hold on to it's gains from the colonial era that they plundered everything from the east now east wants the prosperity back but west doesn't want to give it back that's all.
1142Ray Bod: Free trade has always been a lie. All countries protect certain politically connected industries and penalize the politically weakest population. In the U.S., it’s the lower middle class and small businesses that are hurt the most.
1143Calys Agora: "Positive protectionism" Best oxymoron this month... Holy crap, they seriously say that you cant have free markets without protectionism. The level of Orwellian newspeak in that self-contradictory statement is astounding. War is peace, slavery is freedom, and planned economies are free economies. No wonder people trying to understand mdenr politics are so confused.
1144Alexander K.: Global or 'free' trade is not 'fair' trade.
1145Count Rufus: But the US wants dominance of energy resources and energy markets.And especially Intellectual capital(highly educated people).Energy and Russias resiliance to allow Russians to USA is why USA is angry at Russia. Petrodollars.Energy and intelectual capital.That was the goal since 1907.
1146현실 세계: Com on do not cry like babies..... China have huge population which work.... You west do not need immigrant and need cheap labour.... And your not producing kids...... What you people's want If you buy made in your country only then it will increase cost and monopoly increase....
1147Kale: That does not make they are right in any situations.If you have a product to sell to whole world you would want to have a free trade. And also for an economist they mostly care the gdp. Protectionism is necessary at some level. The bad is clear I think, total Protect or Free trade (both) are bad. You should make special policies between them. If you dont put import taxes you can not produce almost anything as a poor,undeveloped country.
1148SassyHershsey SassyHershey: The WWII was what got our factories back what BS! Why do you think Pearl Harbor was a dream come true for Roosevelt (he moved the fleet to Hawaii to make it easy for Japan to get our economy out of the Great Depression - not TVA (though it was a good socialistic project).
1149kashmir19851: With a state free trade is impossible. Remove the state and you will have free trade.
1150circusboy90210: chasing the lowest labor rate is not really the best business practice for a multitude of reasons. high labor rates mean high living standards and stronger internal trade and manufacturing.
1151Ahmad Ahmad: Whatever the nomenclature is about to be used, basic principles such as reciprocity should be enforced. Otherwise it'd be plain retaliation acts.
1152Frank Moore: Always going to come down to the lowest common denominator, money over community, money over people, money over everything .
1153DW Documentary: Hi GoingWhere, thank you! Stay tuned & spread the news!
1154John James: Excellent Documentary
1155Amit Joshi: i am a proud Indian and we definately have trade barriers to prevent goods from China, EU, USA . We will have anti dumping duties to protect our domestic industries
1156Dennis Eaton: David McKee Smith A fine documentary.
1157Erebus69: If a country has a surplus in export that entire country wins. Means that they have more jobs to offer in the production industry, more jobs on the transport industry. If you are German you are automatically winning, obviously the boss wins more because they created the company and the gov as well because of the taxes on all those jobs and products and exports, but the worker wins also just by having a job in the first place. The ones that loose are the ones that import those products because they loose the jobs on the sector from which they are importing.
1158william louie: How can you can call free trade fair! In poor countries workers are paid penny to make cheap products for export. How can other compete with that kind of wages.
1159Rich R: Long story short if you have 100% free trade too many customs people loose their jobs and other people. It is mainly about employing people. Same with income tax in the US they could generate just as much in revenue with other forms of tax and abolish at least half of the IRS but the companies that do taxes are too big in their PAC's.
1160mike griebel: The bad effects of free trade are really bad effects of other forms of protectionism. For instance, the EU subsidies production of poultry etc. Cameroon is prohibited from adding tariffs because tariffs are inconsistent with the free trade agreement. Yes, and subsidies should also be inconsistent with free trade agreements. That's the problem, so the solution is never tariffs. The solutions is real free trade, without subsidies and tariffs. Chinese bicycles, same story. This video is full of such misconceptions. Not only tariffs. Subsidies have to be considered.
1161James T Cat Cato: Do you guys ever read a book? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "FREE TRADE", any fiat transaction is subject to manipulation, UNLESS YOU REGULATE AGAINST ABUSES!
1162James Wisrik: USA had a drug problem... go after the dealers instead of the demand issue. Germany is $$$$ and crappy. LOOK at their cars! Is she willing to spend 50% more for a refrig? Made in usa!
1163Mladen Ratkovic: heheheheheheh     and again heheheheheeheheheheh
1164Sew Hun: Very good documentary, but Germany seems very touched in this regard currently?
1165David: Also ironic that America's attempt to help its economy through protectionism coincided with the longest economic depression in the nation's history 20:00
1166Cameron Moore: you're a fool. Tariffs predate commies by thousands of years. The founding fathers of america were protectionists
1167Phillip Holmes: good documentary - I have said for many many years free trade is a scam, just like privatisation of public assets. Only the top end of town benefits as those dirty swine make the rules and have the power to enforce them. Something needs to change and soon !!!
1168Harmony Reilly: Great documentary tank you
1169Jege Dem: God gave us something named "choice". Think about it. Stop telling other countries to leave your country alone. I will be doing a subject on "choice" in the near future. Stay tuned.
1170george Obasi: I dont know when AFRICANS  countries will  be free from the western world.
1171Levine Levine: @10:27, you can see where this video going: blame China for destroying jobs. The video producer slyly selected certain businessmen whose narrative are used to demonize China or scapegoat China. Among the candidate 50 States , the video producer cherry picked PA, the State whose steel production once so dominated the nation that its football team is named the Pittsburgh Steeler. Today, Pittsburgh is part of the rust belt - its steel plants demolished or left to rust away. Once upon a time, the labor unions exacted contracts that made domestic steel production too expensive. Faced with competition from abroad the PA steel plants closed just like the many domestic bike factories. Here, the PA bike shop owner is disingenuous. He concealed the real reason his bike shop sells Made-in-China bikes: the American consumers want to buy them and these Made-in-China bikes produce the maximum profit for him. In fact this video completely ignored the consumer as the driving force behind manufacturers seeking lower labor cost. The video failed to inform viewers that there are bikes made in USA and Europe that the bike shop owner decided not to distribute because of thinner profit margin and sales volume. Instead of telling the truth about his bike business which would offend the video producer's narrative, the bike shop owner plays along with the video producer's Blame-the-Chinese narrative and in the process enjoys his 15 minutes of fame.
1172samim: well researched & made documentary - thanks.
1173Balen Mars: Patrick, read the link below, it happened in 2018. there's literally no Western country that produces anything electric or computer related products other than China. Refer to DW's other documentaries, but also this documentary. Try google for their products, they're all luxury products like cheese and chocolate for the corrupt and sons and daughters of the corrupt of the world. The link below is an evidence that they don't want you to know, obviously, how their economy is running. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/swiss-bank-whistleblower-arrested-in-spain-1.3451768
1174dabi Dabbagh: basically usa is the milking cow
1175Bok Tan: When communists China say they will impose free trade. So everything CCC send to Germany are tax-free. But when Germany send goods to CCC are also tax-free. It's sound very good. But no body knows that when Germany send goods to CCC their leaders will ask the communists China Chinese not to buy the Germany goods. So the free trade are nonsense. Just to tell lies, to rob n steal and sabotage n negate your products. No matter how n what u propose the rules n law. The CCC just don't care, the communists China Chinese are the best evil in the world.
1176Bobby: From what i'm seeing here is a small minority of african farmers and german bicycle owners angry that they can't find a way to cheapen their products so consumers buy them instead of the imports
1177Bertrand James: 1) You can have "free trade" if you retrain the workers who lose jobs. But in the USA the Republicans refuse to do that. 2) You can have "free trade" if you include labor in that trade. Lose your job growing onions in Camaroon? Move to the EU and work in a car factory.
1178Ross Meldrum: The first rule I learned in economics was the old saying " No such thing as a free lunch"
1179ArmyOfAll: Successful entrepreneur = person lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time who was then able to take the surplus value of their employee's production per hour for themselves due to the top down anti democratic unstable organisation of production called capitalism. The successful entrepreneur then goes on to purchase the cheapest materials, ships them from across the world regardless of the ecological cost & jobs lost to his native steel industries, and milks even more profit per worker per hour. Law 1 of capitalism that both Karl Marx & Adam Smith agreed on: Profit seeks the lowest cost of labour and materials in order to further maximise profit. Which means: a) Employer brings cheap labour to the jobs to exploit,, but if unable b) Employer send the jobs abroad to the cheaper workers, but if unable c) Automation It also means regardless of the scenario, quality and/or longevity of products decrease over time.
1180chris Lambert: It is not Free trade, it is managed Trade
1181TheoXaris: How cute! Germans (I mean their ruling class...) who tore down all protectionist measures in other EU countries (most massive example in % of desindustrialisation : Greece back in the 1980s when it lost possibly more than 2/3rds of its industries literally overnight!) wiping out their indigenous industries and fueling their economies with debt form German banks to buy the German products, now are desperately trying to protect their industries from cheaper more competitive Chinese imports. What is most tragic is that countries like Greece or Portugal who today are left devoid of any meaningful industry would benefit from cheaper Chinese imports... but no... they still have to cling with the German imports for a still large range of industrial and even quite some consumer products. On top they have to listen to German politicians lecturing them about debt. This German professor summed it up expertly : German state wants to eat the cake and keep it all intact at the same time. Yet the elephant in the room is not trade protectinism. The elephant in the room is trade-ROUTES protectionism. Whoever gets it, gets it, the rest can keep on talking about tariffs and taxes...
1182David yu: At 6:59 it goes on to say from free trade, companies, business hnalding, then connecting it with ... "so... it's about job.." How does that sentence connect or is it a new topic?
1183tribequest9: Protectionism is what allowed Nazi Germany to be so successfull. If it hadn't been for their greed they would still be a prosperous nation.
1184indrinita: another amazing documentary from Deutsche Welle
1185Gerberger: You can't compete and play capitalism with a slave who sells his work for nothing. This is the weakness of capitalism. The buying of work for as low as possible and the selling of the created product (work) for as high as possible is exploitation and very harmful to society. (Communism is sadly right about that) Tariffs can both prevent that or make it worse. Just because slave work doesn't pay thanks of heavy import tariffs doesn't mean that it will stop in other countries, but it can still protect the value of work in your own country. But even that is not a permanent solution.
1186Wisepersonsay: A matter of fact is, those Chinese workers cannot buy export-quality products of anything. They go overseas sightseeing these days and line up at shops in Chinatown. They buy Chinese made products available only overseas to take home. They are astonished to see much higher quality products made in their own country. Many countries export the best and the producers have to settle with the least. Another negative side of globalization.
1187solomonarbc: + detroitmetro101 Competition is very important and people in general have to adapt, but we are also much closer to human-made catastrophes than ever before when disruptions occur: you can survive the winter with a fireplace, but not even a week with a modern house heating without power, burning the same wood. A factory is a building, machinery and a group of trained specialists. When all of these are gone, due to going bankrupt (land sold off, machinery going to scrap, specialists retrained or emigrated), the competitor causing all of this will set pricing and quality standards at will because there'll be no one else challenging him. A new entrant will need a load of money to build up a significant capacity to check the monopoly. You compare apples and oranges with taxis and uber: taxis pay a lot of money as taxes and licenses because the City has a rationale. First it has strict control over taxi behavior by granting licenses. Secondly, in the City-management vision, people should be using different means of public transportation, and the statistics help it fluidize the traffic. Thirdly, taxi fares are like excise taxes - it's a big source of taxation, but so are the Social Costs of such a consumption. Uber, might be more fluffy but it's a disaster not an "evolution". When public transportation will be fully autonomous we might argue about it, but until then it's pure tax evasion.
1188Alan C: It is this kind of ripping off, then change the game rule, instead of improving their own products, that make these tariff yelling countries losing in their competitions! Nobody threaten them for their improvement, they just give up and want to keep their market with their lacking behind stuffs, that threatens their own existence in the world market. One day, if the German cars loses their competitions to Tesla, wouldn't it be surprise if German put tariff on Tesla and Donald Trump would still say that it is OK for the German to put German first? Surely, the German would work hard to improve their cars now, and that's why German cars would not lose out in the market and stay competitive!
1189Joe Black: The offshore tax havens are such a problem.
1190Edoardo Titto: i love how DW just refuses the sensationalism that plagues today's media
1191Eli Rivera: How about we analyze this further by viewing free trade from the consumers' perspective, especially poor people in countries like Camaron . So the EU decreased the price of chicken for the poor and maybe allowed for someone who wouldn't of eaten meat that day to do so and the solution to this problem is what? This happens globally good intention end up with shitty consequences for poor consumers. Free Trade is the only thing that has allowed for most countries to have transportation, energy, and whatever technology they use on a daily basis.
1192David McKee Smith: Too many omissions of facts, misinformation, and cherry picked examples to mention. This piece is highly suspect of bias. There is a problem but this is not it. Dig deeper.
1193Long Horn: Good video, but a little hypocritical to agree with Trump's policies while simultaneously ditching on him. :-(
1194Timur Toirov: german way of thinking. everybody benefit from free trade except lazy people.
1195jmrdbg: free tade doesn't exist in a capitalist economy.
1196Alexander William ZALESKI: Ah. But if a Democrap, were currently in the Oval Office, would this deceptive Kraut-caster, even have such a lame documentary? Why not simply say..."Nothing is free."
1197dave evans: Shouldn't the EU should be helping the economies in Africa to develop in order to solve the current migrant crisis?
1198MrHigherplane: The chickens and cows are the biggest losers here. Rip
1199David Wratten: Our children also loss of our wildlife
1200mrwell2341: Amazing facts about tariff to protect domestic industries. Trump is right again.
1201Gicu C.: Resource Based Economy
1202urist mcary: German bike built in China finished in Taiwan, would you be the bike designer the finisher or the manufacturing operator? That's where GDP per chapita comes from.
1203Adriano Me: As soon as the US figure out what it wants, it can finally gain some track again, but, if it just want to rule the world, be everywhere, fight every war, lecture everyone what is right or wrong, it is not going to go anywhere, I see no future if ti keeps doing this. China, on the other hand does not waste what it has the best, which its its youth and its wealth on wars.
1204VityokChotkiy: the lady in Philadelphia has a web site to support things made in america, but she bought a volvo???
1205John Kennedy: what is your solution?
1206net81j: Most jobs lost in the US are lost to Automation. There are data on that. Also, You wouldn't work 70+ hours a week for less than 50 dollars, would you? Even Chinese works are losing jobs to Vietnam, Bangladesh, and others. The only "light" in the tunnel would be AI replace all workers in the world and everyone on food stamp. Though that's hardly a Utopia.
1207Lei P: Free trade for the elites.
1208Serge Sean mison: The EU needs to see the bigger picture. These predatory trade practice's are a big reason why people are risking their lives to reach your shores. I'm not against trade, I'm for more balanced trade which leads to actual fair trade.
1209Alec Soltes: +Hideo Kuze The issue you're talking about is one of manufacturing. Back in the days of mercantilism and 19th century imperialism in Africa and Asia, England was a manufacturing powerhouse and did for a while, until the likes of David Ricardo came along and blew protectionism out of the water. Notice how once poor countries are still developing rapidly under WTO tariff rules, how can you say that free trade hurts manufacturing? It's absurd. Self sufficiency gives no incentive for governments to go to war together. Imagine a war between the US and China, the costs of such a war that could happen today would be many times more destructive than if there were just military vs military. The fact is, over 05% of economists agree that free trade is a good thing, and it makes sense too once you take a look at the actual arguments put forward by Ricardo, Bastiat.and others. I'd also recommend you take a look at the concept of comparative advantage. Free trade is a win win situation for everyone..
1210Manuel Jose: This has to be *the* documentary on the year. DW is as balanced as it can get.
1211Commander Shepard: So Donald Trump was right?
1212baronvonbowel: Did I just hear a German say that Donald Trump has a point?
1213Cj Lagos: While European countries DON"T like what China is doing to its economies, in terms of open market, free trade, yet these European countries want African countries to open up their (market) economies for free trade! That is very ironic, at best, and at worse, very suspicious and evil by the Europeans!
1214Dick Martino: German insistence on tariffs via the EU on solar panels is not fair to the rest of the EU who have to pay more for them than they would otherwise. This is an example of protectionism that harms the efforts on global warming and gives the EU a bad name.
1215Ross Eion Tought: What is not being told here is that our domestic manufacturers expect a high mark-up on their product, where China doesn't..! Worse still, the retailer in almost all cases expect to mark all products up at least 100%; I know this from my own experience as a manufacturer in the past but, you can check this out for yourself e.g. when an item is discounted 50%, in order to make a profit on that item they would have had to initially, mark it up more than 100%. (wholesale price = $40, markup = 100% $40 Retail $80; Discount 50% of $80 = $40 (break-even, no profit) There would normally have to be some profit to cover costs. This is why our products end up being too expensive..! An Indian man told me once, "I would sooner make 50% of a little than, 100% of nothing." And that is what has happened to our market..., we are getting 100% of nothing...!!!
1216popcorn909ful: Fair trade Germany my ass. How many Germany product are subsided by the German government！
1217Dennis Eaton: Eric Bowman Why's that?
1218Hayden Philbert: The US owe over 21trillion that can never be paid,so whats next?
1219jaw hdi: Good job Dw as always
1220Alex Durdan: I think you missed the point... government regulations force multinational corporations stay competitive.. stop throwing gas over the fire.
1221Marxist Hedonist Secular Demon: The United States gov should impose a tariff on all imports into the United States
1222Kuma Chen: This video is so wrong that where was hundreds steel mills closed in our country and more then ten thousand of steel workers lose their good paid jobs because Chain and other countries dumping steels in our country. I did not know that until studies economy. Our country is way too open while countries protect themselves.
1223Abdulai Bah: Another amazing documentary by DW. What an unfair system.
1224DW Documentary: Hi @James Earwood, Thanks for taking the time to comment, we appreciate the feedback. Best, The DW Documentary Team
1225Si Señor: Learn a lot.
1226Grant Rostig: Good information, conclusions are difficult though, but it does seem at least food should have some protection, especially if the exporter is likely to enforce sanctions on a whim.
1227Max Banner: local food security most imortant
1228Richard Sci: Germany's trade surplus is going to pay for welfare for refugees.
1229Chimezie Uzoigwe: The report is so unbiased. Thank you for such a good report.
1230Joseph Marton: Trump is making America great again. I am so happy that he is shutting down canada ! the tariffs on canadian products will destroy the canadian financing of muslim terrorists and canada's welcoming of black terrorist migrants and mexican criminals !! the United States will turtle and will export, oil, gas, products, they will manufacture , wheel and deal . America will be great again. yes other countries will not benefit. canada for example should have focused on trade prior as this could be seen ahead . rather canada voted for homosexuality and free marijuana, they got what they wanted.
1231Soo Tuck Choong: Buy American! Did u know in future, there'll be another big problem? More people will become jobless, not just in US but almost every country because more jobs are gonna be taken away ... by robots! The whole world will only wake up when that happens, can be in next 100, 50, 25 or even just 10 years time! New technology is only killing us, not really making things better.
1232Melody: It is all about bringing America down !
1233shapeoperator: Dream A I'm sorry, having more money does not constitute "bargaining". It certainly is an advantage, but it is not bargaining, which is defined as negotiations to set the price. Just having more money does not lower the price. Anyway this is semantics. Your reply is self defeating because if "money talks" is a bargaining principle, then the simplest models DO include bargaining, contrary to your claims. Your response regarding psychology is incoherent. First you complain that theory does not consider psychology, which is false. Now you say that it does, but people do not take this into account in their decision process. So what was your complaint?
1234Azizbek Gaybullaev: Investment matters... Developed countries should invest more in developing countires where they can earn profits at the same time making poor people richer in those poor countires. In that African small village if wealthy investor invested 100k USD and built modern chicken factory then he weould turn his 100k into 200k. But life of that poor village residents would change to more meaningful life standard. They would have more cleaner environment, higher salary and their children wouldn`t have to spend their time on those dirty fileds but get education at schools. I am from Uzbeksitan where life in villages is poor. I am studying in Europe now and working on investment projects to increase life standards of villagers in Uzbekistan. Everyone in this life has a RIGHT to live good life!!!
1235w reed: Then send your paycheck to Cameron if your so damn smart!
1236C Wen: While the developed countries are determined to bring back low-skilled manufacturing jobs, China is more than eager to get rid of them. The environmental consequences of being the world's factory are murderous, and millions of Chinese citizens die prematurely every year as a result. In addition, low-skilled manufacturing yields very little profit to the labor providers on a unit basis. For example, Chinese labor only costs Apple $4.2 on a $1,000 iPhone X, and the total profit in assembling an iPhone X for the Chinese is less than 6% (about $55), and more than 90% of the profits go to the designer and retailers. The Chinese would be more than happy to make expensive Rolls-Royce jet engines instead of your cheap bikes or cellphones...that's if they had a choice. The rising income inequality in the developed world is likely an issue in redistribution and not production.
1237healthyamerican: no one should do business with communist china..they seek to undermine every economy, to crush all competition, and their human rights are non existent
1238Moses Jonson: ??DW
1239TrelosGreek: FLAWED DOCO!!!!!!!!!!! Even though the doco is full of great facts ... @19:50 shows the purpose of this propaganda film.... the whole doco was produced to attempt to "slip one past the goal keeper" with a slight twisting of facts and blatant lie against Nationalism. It claims that WW2 was caused due to "protectionism" in trade ..... you got to be kidding me! Hate brainwashing like this.. call it out!
1240NolaanPIMP: It's so funny when the documentary is stopped for an ad from Wish, a Chinese company selling cheap stuff ? ?
1241Pincer88: So basically, free trade is a zero sum game, a race to the bottom, in which employees - and they are ultimately the consumers - lose. Karl Marx was not very much off the mark. Time to re-evaluate Marxism?
1242Thomas Rones: Read How Asia Works; it's a good one.
1243Denise Proxima: TheOerdin In westeurope the flatprice increase, the wages decrase and inflation. So the benefit is small.It's good when you have a high paying job and a sole heir.
1244James Earwood: Great documentary. Unbiased and fair. Well done!
1245David Clegg: Why is everything made in China on all items and the EU says trading in europe,go Brexit.
1246Gunpowder & Lace: Oh. A hand-to-mouth existence with localized famine and disease when there’s crop failure? We, as humans, did that already. For millennia. There’s a reason we don’t do it anymore. You’re welcome to try it for yourself though. You can go back to blaming witchcraft when you get sick too. That’ll be fun.
1247Jo Howard: 20:25 Oh DW your Neo Liberal is showing again, I just love that logic ( Protectionism lead to the horrors of WW2 ) never mind all those industrial billionaires like Henry Ford who help fund Hilter, Hess and Rosenberg. Also helping to fund the distribution of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just forget that right Francis Fukuyama..... oops I mean DW ?
1248Compact: Thank you for this insight! We need more news organisations providing complete information like this so we can understand the bigger issue! Well done again DW!
1249bj0rn: Everybody opposes protectionism in a western civilization seeking to exploit foreign markets and natural resources, except when China seek to turn the exploitation around.
1250Jdor D: Very good unbiased and informative video, keep up the great work..."Yeshua(Jesus Christ) is the way"
1251Kr4zYm0f0: mikkel thybo I got some bad news for you, thats already happening
1252Roger Onslow: Free trade is not always good and they explained why. It destroys local industries and thus jobs.
12530Clewi0: And waste tons on moving that shit, I live in a country that exports celulose but import paper.
1254Larry Fredericks: You cannot talk about free movement of goods without free movement of labour. For a fair agreement Cameroon should simply insist that if goods are to move freely, labour should be able to do so too.
1255siva: Who migrated to camaroon? I think its Karl Marx !
1256Andrii Muliar: The planet is under siege by the populist and corrupt governments. We are, who get most benefits in our lives from corporate culture have to put constraints on government power. Let corporation rule and change the world!
1257INTJ-Scorpio-Sigma-Male: 4 european countries who "colonized the whole world" does not represent the whole continent (54 european countries), you know this or you're an idiot? Germany didn't colonize other countries; they barely invaded other countries in world wars and they lost everything at the end of those 2 wars.
1258Afagha Emmanuel: Africa is always the loser! Everyone else preys on her.
1259Xavier: Socialism/Communism at work. Business is anarchy for a good reason, if you're not selling a good product you get surpassed by someone else. Progress.
1260Samme Samme-nlar: It's about time RT AND DW replace all the other so called mainstream medias.
1261Tyler Oakley: Until people start to care that the things they buy are cheap because of slave labor it wont change. Having cheap luxuries are worth it to turn a blind eye to horrible human rights violations to most people however.
1262Self-cucking Whiteman, FAKE NOOSE: This is actually talked about in academics. Take away china's drop in poverty from thr statistics and u might get a different pciture
1263GANGA SINGH Rathore: Excellent Documentary cant be made better than this
1264Moonglow: This is biased nonsense, sorry..
1265Dave Parsons: For protectionism to work in Cameroon you would need to have honest government officials who won't take a bribe and look the other way when cheap imports are brought in.
1266cubecube bean: Globalists are not elected by you so they don't work for you.
1267Admin: Cimon, LOW price same quality? That can't be done. What if the customer doesn't care about quality but want to go for cheap? I thought the western culture is the pioneer in free trade? Now the TRUE color is out. Hahaha.....
1268Tuaman: one of the best unbiased docu ever
1269Nana Nana: It seems Africa is not benefiting from anything here.. in all Chinese trade is a big treat to every country since they have cheap labor and fake products
1270Ireti Rotimi: Who Me tell that to trump.
1271AtomicLegion: Made in the USA doesn't mean it's made in the USA. Still made in china, it's just a label.
1272Santiago Bron: you're not entitled to my business.
1273S Main: 20:50 Did he, a German, just blame the USA for WW2? lmao!!
1274Markus Patients: Slavery worked well for free trade in America. back towards it's beginnings,as well as other oppressive nations. China's population of factory workers earn little compared next to more affluent populations around the world. This is still akin to slavery, whereas workers make far less than do their masters that own the land the factories and the goods being produced for worker consumption, for the most part.. So why do we the workers of the world need masters? All we want is stuff. Who makes the stuff? Who consumes the stuff? Who transports the stuff? Who fixes the stuff when it breaks? WHO ARE WE ?_____________ No man should want for labor. No woman should want for a home and no child should go hungry for food and an education to go towards the benefit of all mankind. Africa continues to be raped by white European nations backed by military forces and money lenders.
1275Willy Wonka: Interesting perspective. As a german I would really like to know where the money from the 250bn trade surplus is going. I can assure you my wage is not even increasing at the same rate as the inflation.
1276Hona Wikeepa: The Native Indian must feel cheated by these foreign pale face fork tongue white trash. Trump will end up in hell with all the other pale face fork tongue white trash.
1277quercus: Protectionism and subsidies are just government handouts paid for by consumers. A few people lose their jobs and millions of U.S. consumers save money when buying the products. U.S. made bike 1500.00 bucks chinese made bike 800.00. Where is the ( fair ) line.
1278Futures: the pride you have when you make something that can be purchased locally - really - hand made by robots is what we have - press a few buttons, pack the boxes - what is to be proud of there? most jobs are empty of meaning and purpose and harm people on mass - we need a major change to develop a sharing economy
1279M Jallow: More reason to get rid of the IMF and WTO..... the only nightmare is a begger has no choice. If your donors /creditors tighten the rope, then your backyard becomes the playing ground for these wolves
1280Good Lover: True! EU kills farmers of other countries..
1281Victor Martinez: That is a myth. Free trade works because it's beneficial for both parties involved.
1282enviro1001: Whining Americans! Always wanting to have it their way... Do you really want to pay more for stuff when salaries and wages are so low! World economy will collapse and we will all lose. Protectionism doesn't work!
1283Clinton Raubenheimer: How is it that China can produce a product at a fraction of the cost, when their currency is 10 times weaker? The only thing that makes sense to me is that manufacturers in the west are overcharging on their products possibly as far as the raw materials. If it really has to do with the scale of operations then wouldn't it suffice to say the solution then is to increase your output? Yet in the back of my mind, I think of things like environmental protection taxes and legislation, wage gaps, populations and unemployment rates, corruption, middle men, trade restrictions and global trade agreements, and so on. I'm pretty sure annalists with far more experience than the average person like myself have looked at the stats and already have a clear idea of how to solve the problem. I ultimately think it boils down to corporate power and trade that has its eyes set on share values rather than on product value, thereby keeping the money and power within a small collective.
1284Christopher Seidemann: Sad that German taxpayers have to subsidize this socialist propaganda.
1285Dwight Looi: Free Trade = Suicide for developed and affluent countries. Free Trade benefits developing countries with low wages, little regulations and no environmental standards at the expense of affluent nations via the outflow of wealth from one country to another due to trade imbalances which will always exist unless wealth is equalized. The gains in services and retail from Free Trade will NEVER make up for the losses from Free Trade. Free Trade is the global wealth redistributionist's wet dream. Free Trade destroys industries, infrastructure, jobs, security, power and independence. For their own interests, affluent countries should practice Mercantilism. Developing Countries should seek free trade. Multinational corporations seek only to maximize trade volume and participation irrespective of the rise and fall of nations. Politicians beholden to the support, donations and lobbying of globalist corporations will always clamor for Free Trade. But, if you care about the power and wealth of your nation, as well as your freedoms and prosperity you will REJECT Free Trade.
1286Victor Petrov: Protectionism never works, it only enables outdated and inefficient industries to keep agonizing. It also raises taxes on the consumers and enlarges corrupt domestic governments and special interests. Strangely enough nobody asked the consumer if protectionism is good, they only asked the local enterprises, which of course like protectionism. Even that fat American woman, who was bragging that she was buying American products, was driving a Volvo, NOT a Chevy.
1287Michelle mobakeng: 41:02 "...The current model is fundamentally flawed...". Has there ever been a fair model? The colonialist then the imperialist, followed by the neo-colonialist (coined by Ghanaian politician, Kwame Nkrumah) and now the hegemonic industrialised globalist powers have never implemented a fair trading model with the countries they conquered. Actually, many of them went as far as not only destroying the nations they encountered but engaged in deporting, trading and enslaving Africans with the promises of personal gains (riches, fame and power over people and things as promised by Satan to Jesus, that which He refused) which in turn propulsed these nations into the leagues of industrialised countries. They then organised themselves more efficiently with the setting up of world, incl. European, organisations. They self-proclaimed rulers of the world, presiding over nations' sovereignties, "solving" conflicts, setting up courts, defining the people of the world's their rights: [Universal Declaration of] human rights, children's rights, trading rights, .... It appears they work for the betterment of the world but their fruits are for all to see: they favour the rich and powerful and deprive the poor and innocent of their food and opportunities. The armed conflicts serve their own purposes in the continuous re-ordering of the world started with the First World War. They engineered structural unemployment and exploitation of the workforce and immigrants on a worldwide scale as a result of their one-sided economic and trading policies. Unless something radical is done, human despair will grow in dismal and abysmal proportions never seen before. Will the rich and powerful heed the warnings before it's to late to save their souls from utter destruction? We can be grateful for those watchful organisations who tirelessly fight for more justice around the world.
1288Craig Castanet, D.C.: Idiot is a nationalist, but denies it. Nationalism is as good as the nuclear family, and self-interest, but she is an irrational denier.
1289Jim: The few bribe crooked politicians to implement 'free' trade and then make fortunes importing and selling, while the many go hungry as factories are closed and industries die.
1290Siddharth Singh: Thank you DW.
1291AfterHoursBartender: End the Fed
1292Drāno drain cleaner: So this free trade thing is for the rich to get richer smh
1293Minh Duc Pham: There is no solution from the documentary. Open economies will benefit consumers but cost jobs. Closed econmies will hurt consumers but will retain jobs. I guess there should be some balanced approach between free trade and protectionism.
1294D Zuke: Shoot, I thought this was about the deceptive promise of FAIR trade. But yeah, nothing in the world is truly free.
1295moiseman: 3deep5me
1296gerson auguste: When rhe jobs are gone, where do people ind the money to buy those "cheap" goods?
1297Alan C: The worst is countries have been advocating for free trade when they are doing well, and suddenly, when they aren't as efficient, they move the goals after earning so much and reverse the free trade philosophy!
1298petitpapillon: products made in China are more affordable allowing low income people to live decent
1299Sunset Cliff: 9:00 since basically all the production factories are made in China, why do I need a middle man? Why is one middle man better then the other middle man? If you own a factory in China, I want to buy my widgets directly from you- and not include the middle man.
1300Chad Simmons: Hey Bris china imports 50% of all recycled plastic from the whole planet! (true-fact) its not trash!
1301Gwill: Farming is a very sensitive issue. If you think American steel is a national security concern, then you should definitely think food is a security concern. If a country can't sustain itself with food it will collapse the moment its imported food stops. Thats why Canada subsidizes certain food products.
1302Boban Joseph: Ish bin herr Boban Joseph von Kerala,India watching DW(English). Danke Shön, DW TV.
1303tillallareoneluv: Everybody opposes protectionism... except for themselves.
1304bboyjunyor: While they are right with what they mention... it's funny how they say close to nothing about how the US does the same thing (they accidentally even confirmed that when the bike shop guy said Specialized and Trek bikes are also made in China and the subsidized farming; many products are made in the US and not in China but are purchased by all Asian countries; there is a balance and the problem with the US is that Americans just buy a lot, even if they don't use - that is a lot when it comes to thrown away food, clothes, short-term used cars .. etc ). So it is mostly a documentary backing up Trump's decision by throwing dirt on China and Germany without also telling the same story about the US!
1305adam kimber: the problem isnt globalisation, the problem is that tech is moving too fast for people and there education. here is the perfect example from Milton Friedman “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: "You don't understand. This is a jobs program." thin on that one an bit.
1306Wayne Teachman: All countries have to do is stop buying from China
1307jewel rana: great coverage. thanks a lot.
1308solomonarbc: Yes, and those consumers get their money from being able to sell to someone else ...
1309Alexandre Andrejow: The documentary is interesting but it's also biased. It's too Eurocentric and nationalist. With too much protectionism people would complain that everything is too expensive.
1310Wakili Njogu: Chinese create better and cheaper
1311Brian Warner: Oh Jesus Christ, I know it's not a video I want to watch when right at the start they have a brand new batch of regular words with "ism" thrown on the ends. So I'm out of here is less than 1 minute.
1312fleamarketmutt: Materialistic twat.
1313Kaze: China doesn't have to be anti-democracy if the West doesn't have to force it upon others with a gun. The concept of democracy is fairly new around a century ago. Whether it's a good system is yet to be determine. United States is also anti-democracy, it is establish as a Constitutional Republic. As Benjamin Franklin once said "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner." Our Founding fathers rejected democracy because it's mob rule and the 51% can vote to take the rights of 49% away. That's wrong so they establish a Bill of Rights that protects every individual's liberty. Here's an article that summarize why the Founding Fathers rejected democracy. http://libertyunderfire.org/2010/06/the-founding-fathers-rejected-democracy/ Regarding China's human rights abuse, which is worst, human rights getting abuse or innocent women and children getting killed by drone strikes all over Middle East for their oil? Ever wonder why you don't complain these atrocity *cough murders * while you complaint about some silly human rights even the chinese people themselves don't care about and the Chinese Government has one of the highest approval ratings by their people? It's because of something call US propaganda. You are yet to understand the scope of your brainwashing.
1314Nishant Mistry: Superb !! Now you are worried that 3rd world countries are gaining back their status..  LoL
1315john Ajax: I personally have been in Canadian factories it goes in a carton stamped made in U.S.A.
1316GaslitWorld f. Melissa B: She explained that we make choices as consumers. So, not everything has to be made here, but consciously make specific choices. It's not an all or nothing call. Jeez.
1317876beauty: There are no consumers with no jobs...
1318Honfy Lam: $400 for a bike with gears equals cheap?
1319Claudia Garcia Mera: Excellent documentary. You guys at DW are making top content. Way to go!
1320mishap00: If you want free trade it must go both ways. Not that it will ever happen, but I always thought that reciprocal tariffs(i.e. if you have 10% tax on imported widgets then so should we for your country) and if you want to sell here than you must pay your employees at least the equivalent to our minimum wage(no sweat shops) the third thing if you subsidize an industry then we hike our tariffs to compensate. It would level the playing field and quality and value would be where the competition is, but again just a pipe dream. Almost impossible to enforce and the bureaucracy would be hideous.
1321Sokami Mashibe: I Know that this is a lengthy post, but for anyone who is concerned, I wanted to be as thorough as possible to inform about how these issues, such as trade policies that negatively affect poor countries around the world, are not nearly as straight-forward as they appear. I want to present to the fullest extent possible that there are very sinister Political and Economic reasons behind why poor countries around the world are abused to such a degree by Western Policy, and that it's not just any isolated trade policy, political party or political leader pushing for it. Instead it is the natural result of a system that has evolved only the most desperate means systemically to sustain itself. The short version is this: That Western powers (specifically the EU and USA) exploit countries around the world to sustain the Capitalist system, that the System itself is unsustainable and maintained only through constant Financial and Political manipulation, that these issues are inherent to the system and cannot be fixed simply through reform or regulations, that if not abolished in due time it will ultimately lead to fascist dystopia's during the next major financial collapse, and that the only way to 'fix' it is to abolish it entirely through revolutionary action. Such revolutionary action can eventually transform global society to one based on Mutual Aid between countries, and a Political system which puts political and economic power into the hands of the people through various participatory democracies, not a relatively small elite of major power players. The only viable way to solve these issues in the long term, is to revolt against the predatory system that is Global Capitalism and to abolish it. Only through struggle can the people of the third world obtain their political and economic independence from the Imperialistic, Hegemonic trade policies that are designed to exploit poorer countries of the world for western benefit. Capitalism is not a sustainable nor an ethical system for global human civilization. Even right now the Banking and Financial system which fuels Capitalism is only operating on an unaccountable run-away debt and private corporations creating money out of thin air to "fuel" themselves and to keep investors happy. The main thing that has been upholding Capitalism for the past ten years alone has unironically been massive loans in the form of US treasury bonds being sold to China which in turn were used to bail out major banks in the USA in the trillions. These issues are not an accident nor an aberration of the Capitalist system, but a natural end result of its evolution in the west and around the world as a globalized system. If these more recent issues Aren't enough, An in depth examination of Global Capitalism only leads to the conclusion that ever since the end of World War 2, Capitalism has only sustained itself through the extreme exploitation of other countries labor, natural resources, industry and farmland. The truth behind so many wars and so much instability around the world can be found through a lengthy history of Western Intervention. The fabrication of wars against sovereign countries (through the media and in-bedded journalist), CIA Interventions (such as School of the Americas) around the world, and extensive western corporate take-overs in other countries, has been purposed for the ultimate aim to expand the Western control of economic resources, in the aim to compensate for a system that is highly unsustainable, a system which requires constantly tapping into new sources of cheap labor and cheap natural resources to combat the declining rate of profit of corporations. The Capitalist system, which has long been based on globalized exploitation, financial and political manipulation and run-away debt is deeply unsustainable. Eventually, this will lead Global Capitalist System into a Financial Collapse which it simply cannot recover from by using the same manipulative schemes that it relied upon before - all of the known Financial and Political work-arounds will have been exhausted. When Capitalism is on the verge of Collapse, The major capitalist within society will do exactly what they did the last time Capitalism was about to collapse in on itself, such as during the great depression: They will fund major fascist as a means to 'save' the system - by creating a slave economy (look up the documentary: Hitlers American Business Partners). If one wants to lay back and think the system will somehow solve itself or fix these issues that are inherent to itself or that these severe issues can be 'regulated away', then they will be in for a massive surprise when a major and irreversible financial collapse happens and Fascist are put in power all around the western world to save the system. The point is that we must organize very strong revolutionary movements against such a system that relies on perpetual war and exploitation of other countries to sustain itself. This does not mean that innocent people should be targeted or that people should go around doing pointless riots that would only be used as fuel to demonize the movement. On the contrary, Such a movement would focus on getting as many people as possible very conscious about how the system works. As Well, such a movement must focus on helping the most down-trodden people in society anywhere in the world. Imagine training farmers threatened with corporate or government take-over all around the world on how to defend their land, and what little they resources they have available to them. Imagine training people from the most down-trodden countries to take back the land, industry and factories that their own people have lost as a result of corporate take-over and wars of imperialism. The best revolutionary movements are always rooted among the down-trodden of society, help the down-trodden to the best of their ability, and have a general appeal to organize against the deep injustices of the system. The mid-term aim of Revolutionary Movements would be to transform Societies around the world to ones Where the people of those societies hold Political and Economic control over their own Society through Participatory Democracy, and that as successful revolutions develop, revolutionary nations can be aligned with each other in solidarity. It is important that successful revolutionary movements have reasonable Working Class State Apparatus' overlaid as an extension of Participatory Democracy, such that it is not its own entity separate from the people, but one with direct proportional representation and recall by the people of every community. This allows the people of revolutionary nations to make decisions concerning the security and development of the whole nation by drawing all political will from communities of people rather than a relatively small and powerful economic and political elite. This form of State Apparatus controlled so closely by communities, can protect the newly found transitional revolutionary society from Imperialist invasions, trade manipulations, and other forms of aggression. Further, a Revolutionary State Apparatus that is effectively controlled proportionally by communities and held accountable through Constitutional participatory democracy, can provide a framework which allows for national scale projects and equalized development within a nation as determined by regular people, rather than a political elite. Ultimately, it is an extremely useful tool for Revolutionary Peoples to better secure the independence and dignity of their respective Revolutionary Nations. With a world of nations built on this form of Political System, Political nor Economic Power would be concentrated to a few people who can pull strings to fuel their own wealth and position in society. Such a world would be built on Mutual Aid between countries - where the most developed countries would provide the poorest countries all the technical and material aid they need to be developed without being exploited, and as a result a lengthy period of peaceful and mutual development can finally ensue. This is in stark contrast to the world of the present that is driven by run-away debt, loans from China, Corporate conglomerates fueling themselves by creating their own money with the federal reserve, Economic Imperialism and finally Imperialist Wars around the world. Conclusion: If we are to develop a sustainable and peaceful future for humanity, then we must organize Revolutionary and Constructive action which can eventually result in the total transformation of Global Society. This would occur over a substantial period of time as various revolutionary movements would lead their country to Independence and liberty for their own people and as revolutionary nations align in solidarity to the broader revolutionary movement. If humanity does not organize powerful and successful revolutionary movements in a reasonable time frame, we will only witness the World degrade into various forms of fascist dystopia's. Yet still, even as the world Degrades, many people will still continue to be so short-sighted in their analysis, that they will still only blame one particular elected official or one particular policy or one particular political party for the deep-crisis that inevitably emerges from the machinations of capitalist society. As a result of a complete lack of Political Self-Awareness and Stubbornness, so much of humanity - especially in the west - will still fail to recognize that it is the entire system itself that is causing these issues and crisis, that this is a natural result of the evolution of Capitalism as a system, that these issues cannot simply be reformed or regulated away, and ultimately - that the only way to be rid of such overwhelmingly severe issues is by Societal Transformation, a Transformation which can only be achieved through large-scale revolutionary action emerging from the masses
1322Trams Am: Boycott - made in China. Buy made here in America.
1323Hayden Philbert: We need to cut off China,they'll destroy the world market eventually.
1324Samuel Kim: It really is the BEST of the bunch out there!
1325Rafael Valero: Great job. I think there is plenty of room to expand too: A) If the EU wants to trade with Cameroon I guess agriculture is the easiest for Cameroon to trade with the EU. The EU has better industrial manufacturers and Cameroon no, so it looks logic for Cameroon to trade with the EU in terms of food. So if you want to help to develop Cameroon trading food could be good for Cameroon, but we have the opposite. B) there is problems with the tariffs but also in terms of quality and so on. Why Cameroon is not importing car or similar inside the EU?. It looks that those countries should be very cheap to produce cars and computers too, why they are not doing that apparently?. C) Intelectual Property and SERVICES. It looks like easier to produce designs, patterns, and services (data, banking, education...) in rich countries and products in poorer countries (were the labor is cheaper). bw
1326Garett Backe: Those cows look really happy. I'm always impressed by the Swiss.
1327Justin White: Glad to see this documentary shows both sides of protectionism from different countries. American media unfortunately rarely does this, it just one sided propaganda. :(
1328Gaurav Dudi: At this point one can not ignore China, it's has to be dealed with
1329Artemirr Lazaris: Free trade jsutmeant no tarrifs. However, with income tax, and asai markets under mining nad imposing strange values and assimilating. What are the jobs in which one protects? destroying teh 1.3 billion populace would alleviateand allow restructuring ad allow these pr firms that lie ot women its the main force that keeps teh system draining is females in power that love cheap labour and trade as for numbers and they are backed by the migrants for votes nad mreove fudning, So.... Removign china down to the Korean peninsula would protect the ecnomic range, and allow products produced within reason, sadly, chinas ability of one company to produce 100 mil, of bikes alone can supply the entire world pop with all its manufacturing, in 15 years twice over. So the nteh educational theft and the oppressive nonsense, I don't know these people, so what is work and what is money its a market of money worship, and not allowed to develop, while the governing system constantly depletes ones resoruces andjustify killing other people and udenrmining education and sound projects of structures, so rather then intelligent structure of study we have this shit hole forming, I don't like any of it, it really has nothign to do with money, but works and of those works, if one is not allowed to do those works then they need an outlet to function else where, so in this regard, all Asians re an enemy of the earth, they have stolen so much like india in teh fall of rome or other venues, so what do we hve now, well peace, but the robust populace andretarded doctrine of the state is doing what asia has always done, squash and kill teh seeds of other people and o logical person will breed with such crazy women, and so its a fuckery of state and society, all created by liars and peope lthat teach unsound doctrine.... new thigns are alright ,but the use of this manner is obtuse.. so if asia never existed if each nation had their own location and planet of isolation, works would be inpeace, but when yo uahve opposing values and inflated structures and then acutal workshops and pr attacking peoepl. So al lteh black Pr all the asia smart pr, I want to kill the mall wipe teh earth, keep fuckign lying and want identity products then you should all be killed without impunity, because it is a violation of works, and so the stigma of the state is ocmpeltely taken over and traded. So asia is a piece of shit. The baseline of the traits of all Asians isn't intelligence, because of their past, they carry scavenger traits mostly. Peace.. war.. sure we forgive, but they seem to nto care and never stop and that non empathetic measure and the weird peope lpaid in teh states teach people to laugh at empathy as a weakenss so its the art of war form a sick book making it s a very disgusting measure and it would seem the measure ot kill britis hor traditional way of western world is by the means of its only threat as they would perceive, but without ever a violation except in their first violations oftreatise of trade, and so its paparent they are like much the Mongolians, thieves, hogs, and terriests. Then they are like ,see be with us, look at all teh treasures we make, but they don't make them, they buy, copy, undermine and steal, there is nothing in that, because ist not where the source is from, and so I would pick the other, and I would not consider or want of such a pact until it changes muchly, but hey then its racist, or is it? Seen massive destruction -.- and the in aibltiy to fucntion because of th nearly 4 billion slave net work asia controls.
1330Jodiann Walker: Let me tell you something. There was always a trade war going on. Those in the States hold on to the things related to hygiene, health, sanitation, cleanliness and water. So, the rest of us just hold back things related to food. Of course, global trade, for the most part, was fair. What was not fair was that the US dollar was placed as the trade currency.
1331John Smith: The US still makes stuff?
1332azuratic: Let's think about this hypothetical situation. Trade within EU, Portugal is able to produce bikes at much lower costs than Germany. Should there be any tariff within EU? How about, California is able to produce bikes at much lower costs than Washington, should there be any tariff within America? The problem is your national border, not trade.
1333Mike Varga: All i know is since china took ovrr manufacturing, quality has gone Way down. No one can convince me consumers mainly want cheap and poor quality
1334Mark Stouffer: Sure. They're taught in all the schools, and hugely influential. "We have to apply protectionism, because the markets are distorted." This is what we have heard from the Old World since Metternich tried to preserve the monarchy and Kant tried to preserve "faith". It is what Trump is doing now. I hope you are happy with the outcome of the ideals you promote.
1335TACKLEBERRY: American made = expensive junk
1336Bertrand James: The problem is after destroying her job growing onions Holland refuses to let her come to Holland to work on an onion farm there. Holland also refuses to retrain her so she can stay in Camaroon and earn a different livelihood there.
1337Joanne Mercader: Interesting and informative
1338thehALomolov2: Let's say 2 businesses produce the same product, the local buisness produces it for $10 and sell it for $20, the foreign buisness produces it and can undercut the local or sell for same price. Either way the foreign buisness has an advantage, more sales by being the cheaper option, or larger profit margin when matching market price. So penalizing the foreign buisness has a few outcomes, they keep undercutting at an even smaller profit margin, they keep selling at market price for a penalized profit margin, or they can increase their price to deal with the penalty fees. The problem is, none of these actually help. The first two just gets the country a larger share of the imports profits while not helping the local buisness. Forcing the foreign businesses price up makes the local buisness be the ones undercut the rest of the market. This natural makes the local buisness increase their price to get more profits, which gets the local buisness and forign buisness into the exact same scenario. so at the end of the day it's the consumer harmed by import tariffs, having to pay more for less.
1339Patrick: Funny 98% of the gdp in switzerland comes from Electric,computer,chemical companys and other industrys.Also the swiss bank secret is histroy since 2009(sadly idiots like you still claim it exist).
1340Angus Adolphus: As a consumer, I look for a label that indicates that the product is not made in the united states. In that way, I can be assured that the products are made by workers who didn't vote for Donald Trump.
1341Dipankar Singh: I have seen an interview of jack ma, he concludes that, if China makes a product worth 8 dollars, that very same product is sold be American and European enterprises at least 5 times the manufacturing cost in China, and beside that, Europe and USA remains free form any pollution emissions which happens in China on a large scale due to manufacturing, which has affected the environment in China and health of Chinese people to a large extent. But what USA does with all those profits earned by selling Chinese products at five times the cost.?, USA expends that money in Manufacturing military equipment and war fundings, USA uses its trade money in military R and D and technology and sell defence products to countries like in Middle East. Does that make any sense.? China is a very nice country and their people are very helpful and hard working, they have also initiated single community railway network for trade from Beijing to Rotterdam, which will cut down every trade barriers and will promote easy trade.
1342Christopher Fortineux: Why do Americans always think Nationalism and Protectiveness is a bad thing ffs. Stupid.
1343fredocorleone: China steals $550 billion a year from the U.S. in intellectual property rights - tech they copy and sell in their products. If they paid that, the trade deficit the U.S. has with them would be gone. #patents
1344Lord Shanghai: Philippe Rouchy It seems that you failed basic trade course. A simple question will prove you wrong: Are resources limited or unlimited?
1345Peter Jachmann: it used to be Japan now China
1346tom foolery: labor is obviously cheapest in africa, but good luck starting a business there without bribery and violence.
1347fergal farrelly: Canadas lumber industry was built on 19th century tariffs.
1348sentido kumon: These globalist 'free-trade' policies are a race to the bottom. There's a reason why international trade rules prohibits the sales of subsidized goods to other countries. The Chinese gov't subsidizes the nation's export goods to the gills. Eg, the country's steel industry. They got cash grants, equity infusions, gov't mandated mergers and acquisitions, they get preferential loans, they get directed credits, they get subsidies for land use, they get subsidies for utilities particularly energy, they get price controls on their raw materials, they get preferential t@x policies & state mandated benefits, they get beneficial currency policies, etc etc etc Nobody can compete with that. American (& other 3rd world sh-- holes) steel companies are not competing with some free/private enterprises from China, they're competing against the Chinese gov't who can print free money and do what ever the h e l l they want. If this isn't cheating, then I don't know what is. Just stop all subsidies. No country should provide any and if they do we should stop trading with them! If the free market won't pay to cover the price of production then raise your prices or go out of business. That's what's wrong with the whole fu**** world!
1349malnatik9@Gmail.com: Oh, please! Yet another foreigner, crapping on the US. Quell Suprise! Where do you get off, telling us that we wouldn't touch a manufacturing job? We WERE manufacturing jobs, until all this outsourcing happened! I know, I worked in Manufacturing for decades, and I would have had no problem letting my children work in manufacturing, as well. That's not an option anymore, and we're worse off for it. As to us importing foreign workers to do manual labor - THAT is absolute Hogwash! NO American is Importing foreigners to do work for us - with the possible exception of Washington's Overlords! We are being INVADED, and the vast majority of us are BEGGING to stop it!! How exactly do you explain the election of Trump, if you believe Americans Want the cheap foreign labor imported? WE DON"T!!! Only the Ruling class wants that, and the rest of us are willing to pay through the nose to build a wall to STOP IT! You can see how well the Overlords listen to us, and how much they represent our wishes! Pull YOUR head out! The good old days were the days BEFORE Teddy Kennedy et al decided that cheap foreign labor, and cheap foreign manufacturing was the answer to all our (read THEIR) problems! America was greater then, with well paying jobs, and low crime, and a lot less whining! You snobs from outside the US are so self righteous and smug. Have you ever even Met an actual American? Or do you just drink the CNN Kool-aid, and believe all the lies that they spread without ever bothering to check any other source? No one in the US listens to CNN, because they've been caught LYING so many times, only the morons you claim to detest listen to them at all. What does that make YOU?
1350lou: +gerson auguste Exactly right. Which is why the department stores are carrying a lot of cheap stuff instead of better made and attractive goods like they used to. And that may be why the stores that used to serve a lot of middle class people are fading, and the Walmarts and Dollar stores are springing up. None of the household appliances now last as long as the old ones did. Even a child could figure out that if a lot of people in the U.S. lost their jobs when the industries went to foreign countries where the standard of living was much lower, then they can't afford things they used to be able to buy. Can't prove it, but I think those left behind in the rush to foreign countries with cheap labor are many of the opioid addiction cases. And the Chinese are subsidizing those industries so it is definitely not a level playing field, even with tariffs. Years ago my relatives saw what was happening to farmers in the midwest. The farms got bigger or they went under, the animals they kept disappeared. Now we have megafarms and factory pigs and cows. This is not a better world. The trouble with Trump is that he does not have the brains to understand the situation, it is too complex for him, so this protectionism is being poorly handled.
1351Kevin Oduor: good feature.we need such kind of information.
1352SuperLewisRoberts: There's no free trade as long as there's economic power imbalance. That simple.
1353Alex: 16:38 That woman doesn't understand how business are run.
1354ninuxy: The lesson is, if you work harder and cheaper, you need to be taxed. So much for being fair.
1355Stephen Cotton: The US subsidise the corn industry in the US - so the farmers overproduce corn - and this drives down the corn price - and the US government pays the difference. So even though the global corn price is low the US farmers can survive - due to the US government giving them money. Then the US flood other markets with cheap US corn - which drives out corn farmers in other countries. So in Mexico they stop growing corn and moved to producing other crops at a cheaper rate than the US (because of low wages). So the US farmers will loose for non-corn products - but win for corn. The US cannot subsidise all crops :-)
1356jacob edwards: They are using slave children to build their products and exploiting the people all over the globe. Now they pay no money in tax for Wars they start! These inbred retards are digging holes in a fucking bubble full of water and hot ass fucking combustible gas spinning around a giant ball of fore so big you could stick billions of earths inside it! Talking about dead Jews coming to save us! You are all dust but just didn't know it! Wake up.
1357Jodonho: Next time, make video about the people who pay the tariffs. They're called consumers. You should have no trouble finding them.
1358Abu Finanzwissenschaft: Interesting
1359Andrew Lively: So the government is making it more expensive for their own citizens. In order to allow businesses to catch up to industrialized countries? Don't they know that the pace of technology is INCREASING. They will never catch up. Having lower prices increases the quality of life for all the citizens. Tariffs sacrifice this quality is life to benefit the local industry which is much more inefficient than other countries. It's a waste of money and hurting their own people.
1360Jason Cummings: This documentary seems bias in favor of EU protectionist system. They can impose trade tariffs on goods from other countries to protect their local manufacturing. But when the US attempts to do it its considered a threat to global free trade. How can one justify such blatant double standard. However some of the information was good and I do appreciate it. Thanks for sharing....
1361Ed Wo: He's not an entrepreneur, he's just an importer. It doesn't take any business skill to be an importer.
1362Enzo Rocha: It used to be Multi-National Corporations would go into a country and monopolize a product or service. Now, they just dump stuff onto LDC (Less Developed Countries) and kill off jobs and productivity potentials. Capitalism really has a jet black dark side throughout history.
1363Will Power: Freedoms only hope: LFTR is John G.A.L.T.. Freedom (spirit of light)'s product and only fortification from terror (spirit of dark) is advancement. Heart of advancement is energy. Life is light.
1364Ben H: They fail to mention that countries with the least tariffs, and protectionist policies do better economically. Singapore, Hong Kong, and Luxembourg are the top countries regarding free trade, also happen to be in the top 10 for GDP per capita. And unlike Qatar and the UAE don't have natural resources. They also where extremely poor before they became open countries. Protectionism doesn't help countries while they are growing. Example not shown in the documentary. France has held protectionist policies for the last 60 years. They use to have companies like Renault, Airbus, and Schneider Electric, that competed well on the global market. They now have extremely few companies that can compete with out subsidies, and even with billions of euros coming in from the EU every year their GDP and standard of living have been falling for the last 10 years. Fact is protectionist policy is a trade off, but not between jobs in different countries but rather the producers in a country verses the consumers and taxpayers in that same country. Duties, tariffs, and subsidies, may protect a few jobs but unavoidably make the cost of living in that country rise. If I lived in Africa I would thank the EU for subsidizing chicken and vegetables and use the money saved by those lower prices to improve my standard of living. If you have read this far I thank you and will leave you with this. If you had a country riddled with extreme poverty, would you protect a few thousand farmers by forcing food prices up, knowing that higher prices will cause more of your poorest people to starve?
1365Yury Vorobyov: Protectionism = Socialism = Free Money, so I have to say "Where the fu*k is my fair share of Free Money you are throwing around?" Europeans enjoy elevated prices and they like inflation since 1929. And stupid africans screwed their economies, ofc they blame everyone else.
1366Eloy Gutz: Just like guitars.....
1367bboucharde: NAFTA ruined many small farmers in Mexico.
1368Ken Brownfield: Very good documentary. Very comprehensive
1369I COME FROM SUN: *If you have: Brains, Good Traditions and No Corruption/No Tribalism, only then you will succeed as a nation. The most valuable commodity is not oil, gold or slaves but A HUMAN BRAIN. South Korea has absolutely zero resources but is a world leader in all industries. Africa has resources but not much Brain*
1370D Sun: Job lost in America ? totally non-sense. there are more job opens than job seekers today in US, just go to any major news media to see the fact. and US unemployment rate is at ALL TIME low.
1371Merritt Olsen: Everyone has tariffs except the US. Now when we add them everyone has a hissy fit.
1372Kazuyo Leue: Swiss is like Japan for agriculture.
1373Robert Berger: 40 years ago when the russian complained that they can not sel their product the american and europan told the Russian it is your fault start to make better quality products
1374Monaleenian: me myself Are you joking? That is the way humans lived for the majority of history. They were dirt poor and spent their entire day grinding out a pathetic existence. You can go back to living that way right now. Go and purchase a small field, and grow all your own food, using tools which you made by hand from materials you found on that land. You can respond to this comment in a few years time when you've built your own computer.
1375S Freeman: Eye Opening Documentery, Thanks DW.
1376Georgios Tsirtsidis: Import/Export taxes only benefit importers and exporters. Also the reason that we have to outsource so much of our production is the minimum wage. Protectionism is socialism for businesses (some of them!) People should fight for free trade. Best of luck!
1377Graeme Brown: Not good. too many arguments glossed over.
1378Bwana Sibu: five hours a week for ten years, you got royally fucked over there, my son.
1379Arnold Davis: It works unless its one sided like Germany
1380Bob George Malem: There's a flaw in your take. I am an entrepreneur, and I believe in free trade. Right now Trump wants free trade, but at the moment he is setting up the table to be able to win world leaders to be agree with him that high trade tariffs will only lead to more costs to the consumer. The reason why you want free trade is because in the end, all entrepreneurs will have to capitalize by utilizing the best place for the place product, anywhere in the world. Entrepreneurs will figure it out. This means that future entrepreneurs will learn to become global in their mindsets. You can be an American or a European and still capitalize on a company far away as long as you are willing to go that far in your dreams. The main reason to have free trade is because you don't want to get stuck protecting me as an entrepreneur. You always want to protect the end user, which is usually the consumer. That's how you can manage to leverage anything good around the world to the entire world population, without any political interest in the way between the producer and the user.
1381RUHappyATM: Is the EU really a free market when it subsidizes its farmers? Hypocrites.
1382DRS_ au: There is a big difference between free trade and fair trade. With free trade you always have a looser. Fair trade is a two way street and at least somewhat equal for both parties.
1383s3xyScorp: gsmd770 Why does Apple phone cost 1000$ when it cost about 20$ to make.. Bc people are stupid to pay it
1384Real_Sgt_Tom: The real criminals have the been the EU and the Chinese monopoly that have been running wild in double standards for decades...
1385Doublescoop BS: Tariffs subsidizes inefficiencies and punishes efficiencies.
1386Cousin Vinny: This video eloquently attests to the old saying, "Never learn your economics from a utube video."
1387ppns2726: Get the .government to retrain the people before a crisis. Oh that's right. It's the government
1388Anoir Ben Tanfous: Terrorists? Territories
1389dragosholariu: And who forced the US corporations to move production to China?
1390Craig Tucker: I can't be bothered to watch the whole thing, but I made it to 4 minutes in and it's really funny to see the two ladies checking all the merchandise while also doing absolutely none of the physical work. They even got a man following them around so that they don't have to push the trolley they use as a table... I wonder if frauleins complain as much as the average american fat-ass about getting paid 80% of the salary for doing 20% of the work.
1391zakariye Abdirahman: Dw thanks for sharing valuable insights information. From somalia
1392Henry K.: The price of tariffs will ultimately fall on the consumer.
1393NoLongerHuman: Its called capitalism and the workers need to organize and band together to destroy it
1394sundiii99OWS: See how capitalism ("you must buy and sell something or starve") the wage system is insane? All people should have a guaranteed income, and not be forced to work for a wage or starve. Entrepreneurship is mostly a lie. Ending the wage would mean we'd have to stop making excess stuff. Just say "we just got 400 orders for bicycles so let's make 400 in a micro factory and stop". Micro factories should only be in Tower cities connected to maglev Trains (T&T). Eliminate all vehicles.
1395anonymous nameless: You are a good Story teller friend. Love from Rwanda.
1396thahoasje: Bit unfair to say that protectionism and nationalism are responsible for WWII. There where ALOT of factors leading up to that war
1397Mike Varga: How does a small % benefit from local farming. U said it yourself everyone needs to eat. It's vital. A country giving another country the control of it's food is potentially disastrous. A country that can't feed itself (grow its own) will fail.
1398William Burkenroad: "Free Trade is a Myth" - that's right, Free Trade is very expensive for the consumer. Get it? Free - Expensive All one has to do is follow the money trail and you get a better understanding of the human species. Very Good German doc thanks
1399Loaded4th: This documentary has a narrow focus on tariffs, but does not mention Germany's stiff regulatory and special tax laws.
1400circusboy90210: wow volvo is off my list now.
1401TerraTN: The difference in prices is due to differences in worker pay. China is notorious for their child labor & underpaid work force. This is the reason we shouldn't support buying from China unless we know that company treats their workers fairly.
1402Eric Bowman: depends on the quality. ive bought headphones, watches, shoes, clothing etc. that was cheap and some would call that affordable, but it wouldnt last more than a few months or a year. when i laid down a bit more money i would get better quality and it would last a couple years. but i could also lay down a lot of money and have it last a decade. for the cheap headphones of 2.99 dollars i found that they break almost always after 1 month. the more expensive headphones were 23 dollars and it would last more than a year before the cable messes up or i drop it and it breaks etc. i.e. 12x 3dollars = 36 dollars so its would be 13 dollars more to enjoy headphones for a year than when i buy the more expensive ones.
1403JonesJr876: Click the subtitles button on the video for subtitles to show.
1404tuzrune issik: When it begins to hurt European and American hypocrites, free trade suddenly becomes evil. :D
1405dolo gore: couldnt believe that lady has a Volvo, theres lots of American Cars,I have a Jeep and I live in Eastern Europe so Im sure she could find an American car.
1406Bmw EM: there is a reason smartphones are not taxed, because it's about controlling the population, a car or your jacket has nothing to do with controlling you, smart phone is, if you have a smart phone you are under control, so it's not taxed to make it easier available for masses,
1407Kusho Kame: china should have never been permitted to joint the WTO, china is a cheat, opportunistic parasite, and that is the eternal sin of bill clinton.
1408VoiceForJustice AndProportionalResponse: I love the way U.S. media works. Years ago, while countries around the world faced significant damage to their industries, you couldn't hear enough praise about free trade in the U.S. media. Now that the U.S. faces world wide pressure just like other countries did before, suddenly U.S. is against free trade. ...
1409Hao Tran: good video for leaning english and world business . thanks alot
1410Andre D.: Everytime you need "protection" you want to say - but dont have the balls to do it - you can't figure out a way to do a better product in order to justify your price.
1411Self-cucking Whiteman, FAKE NOOSE: "I love capitalism, it works UNLIKE those filthy socialists". "DEY STEELING MUH JAWBS. HELP GUBAMUNT, I CAN'T COMPETE! IT'S ALMOST CAPITALISTI.... Oh uh capitalism is good, socialism baaaaad
1412CHIMEX O.: Love this network, comprehensive analysis of how free-trade is both beneficial and at the same time , disastrous for weak nations unable to compete in this globalized world.
1413Atipat12: Great article ???????
1414jmitterii2: The type of trade we have going on is abused governments by an oligarchy worldwide to push for subsidized tax payer protected goods, and more often race to the bottom abusing impoverished often totalitarian nations extreme cheap labor, than those nations become abandoned for other cheaper labor elsewhere. This "globalization" phenomena is not new. Since recorded history; from the late bronze age collapse that saw the end of the Egyptian New Kingdom fall into the intermediate kingdom, Mycenaean kingdoms, of the Kassite dynasty of Babylonia, of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia and the Levant, all collapsed completely 1200 and 1150. Mycenaean (Greek) kingdoms lost the technology of writing. We see this through various other empires as their trade becomes so interconnected the system becomes unstable via labor that becomes extremely cheap dropping ability to demand so a vicious demand cycle occurs, sometimes propped up by available credit made to fall even harder and often more severe. Trade only works well if an authentic comparative advantage exists: resource can only be found, or is more abundant, technological or know how skills provide better quality. But when its simply based on cheap labor, lack of external cost such as no regulation on companies polluting, poor labor practices such as no safety oversight, lack of benefits, etc. and when quality actually worse than from other markets, its no longer authentic advantage, but a short term in-authentic advantage that in the long run will drive a vicious demand destruction producing poorer quality goods and services with fewer capable of buying them over time. Making nations poorer, and even leaving the exporting exploited nations left with nobody to sell their stuff since their domestic economy isn't strong enough to support sufficient demand either. The effect then causes nations to immediately protect its failing industries as it expose their economies to extortion from high exporting nations. The entire system is unstable. And seems to always occur under the same premise that its somehow new. It's not. Its the natural result of markets becoming interconnected based on the aforementioned bad motives. So often from ancient periods dating to late bronze age, to classical Greece, to Ancient Rome to Spanish Conquest of the new world, to the French empire, to British Empire, onward as early as 1920's just before the economic collapse. Always promoting the economy is different because we're not in a global economy. Then after 100, 50, 20, and as technology increases the pace just after a decade of such a repeated declaration that we're now in a new global economy, it crumbles as it did in 1929. Trade should chiefly be on comparative advantages: better quality, abundance in a resource unable in one's own country, and main ingredient often not taken in account; they must have similar enforced laws protecting externality costs such as pollution, safety, etc. as well as labor right protections such as universal healthcare, paid vacation days, sick days, comparative labor wages and salaries, and other comparable benefits; exploitation where labor has substandard benefits is harmful to everyone in the long run, and only provides a short term to mid term sugar rush of temp low prices for one country while long term job loss and poorer pay and benefits; while temp job gain and wage increase until that nation is no longer a serf cheap nation, then their economy sinks back to where it came from without a strong domestic demand which doesn't tend to happen in totalitarian nations nor even in most republics since they're mostly oligarchies anyways. Major piece of trade is insurance of similar laws and enforcement of such laws to protect the workers and consumers alike. Otherwise globalization is global exploitation as it always has been and always collapses in breakdown in economies around the world, often civil wars and wars among other nations.
1415Bob Greene: Here is the hypocritical history and practice of "free trade" doctrine, around the world-- (1) free trade only when there is trade advantage by the exporter, but (2) protectionism at home for industries threatened by the same policy. The World Trade Organization (OMC) has turned a blind eye to protectionism when practiced by powerful US and EU exporters, with the result native industry in the third world has been flatttened, and locals cannot afford to grow food for even their own villages. To survive under the WTO regime, the PRC decided on the only policy available for its own industry-- compete by paying workers literal "coolie wages", in return for capturing factories, technology and contracts from greedy US and EU industrialists who care only about their own profit-- not whether they decimate industry in their native countries. The WTO is dominated by multinationals which do not recognize national interests, only their own. A more perfect definition of anti-social plunder, piracy and modern colonialism cannot be found. DW is an outstanding, world-class documentarian, and I have watched much of its treasury of 30-minute and 60-minute videos on television's Deutsche Welle network. After finding access to the same library on YouTube, I subscribed without hesitation.
1416Chibi_Undercover: Dylfen  "their"
1417Peter Pan: when theres anything with FREE its never free
1418Guan Sim Teh: Volvo has a factory in America and employs Americans to manufacture its cars.
1419TRAFFICKING IMAGINATION: even now they still wont let africa develope.... still pulling strings to keep people 20 years behind and walking to work and with no tools or factories... the dominant western countries make me sick china is going to be the next super power soon they be making the most power moves in the shadows.......
1420Bastiat in the Andes: Does free trade sound bad? Then try the alternative. And that is applicable not only to international trade.
1421Krisztián Kőrösi: So as a consumer everyone wants quality and affordable goods, as an employee a lot of jobs and high wages. Is it just me who can feel the two clashing? One can not produce cheap goods while getting high wages and a lot of jobs for it.
1422complicatedjason: So funny how europeans used to export their cheap industrial goods into china during the Qing dynasty and forcibly open china's market using opium war and force chinese to absorb their overproduction.
1423Spaniard SRK: you'd have a point if not for more people now than ever have risen over the line of poverty. People are wealthier now more than ever, because of capitalism
1424jgronin: Trump Doesn't Know what it is to WORK so you just stay with him till he crashes your job...LOL
1425peter dollins: Subsidies here mean dumping and destructions of peoples elsewhere, as shown. Taxes on imports need to be set to how much extra pollution Poorer world factories produce, subsidies on rail and transport and the pollution transport, so sky high on aeroplane imports. What presses on local people ever more is housing prices as it also hurts the free movement of Labour. Tax haves dump money into property so Banks and others will not invest in other sectors et al. Capitalism has become dysfunctional. Again. Peter L. Dollins.
1426Denise Proxima: Staremperor You must protect your food chain. You can't trust your neighbor with food. The time can change.
1427Denise Proxima: zerillimassimo You mean the immigration and the lower wages.
1428Trey S: I wonder what would happen if there were no tariffs anywhwere...
1429KAESowicz: I like to say that I like freedom and because of that I like to have someone to constrict those who would want to take it from me.
1430Circumpolar Bear Cult: 876beauty The subsidies of USA Gov. on Dried Powdered Milk made dried powdered milk imported from USA cheaper than Jamaican domestic milk. You were drinking reconstituted dried powdered milk packaged as 'liquid' milk. This made me angry even though I have dairy farmer relatives here in Wisconsin. My dairy farmer relatives have about 300 milk cows, and have hired Mexican workers . Mexican workers because the local people will not work the brutal hours for the little pay my relatives offer. It is a family owned business. I hope your domestic dairy industry can recover...Global trade is a complex 'being' with very, very 'dark' and evil aspects...someone prospers and others are ruined. Respect.
1431John Smith: If it was not for millions of factory workers making $3 an hour in China and India do you know how much more things would cost?
1432pkScary: This channel is a treasure. So glad I found an interesting, unbiased source with which to educate myself.
1433Jo Howard: 12:38 ???"One country's loss is another country's gain" well those Milton Friedman worshippers ? must hate you guys, with your "Red Marxist Propaganda" ????
1434consulting insultant: If only exports are the strongest point of Germany, then German business are still immature. Give and take balance, and balancing it in a wide spread is the mature way. SLAM Germany, great that Chinese undercut germany, great that volgswagon is known for totally outdated car models who got fined for cheating on pollution control in America so nobody feels it is cool, only jerries harp on such outdated concepts such lasting quality in this use and discard age.AND BESIDES A NEW PARADIGM of environmental pollution due to ocean shipping and long haul lorry transport NEEDS TO BE INJECTED to the psyche and local & simple manufacturing locally be made fashionable, then the flip flop chappals and cloth sneakers fashion shall pay for its worth
1435Martim Martim: It's sad and cruel that pretty much the only basic things those people from Africa can produce are food/livestock and yet big corporations from wealthy countries send their surplus cheap subsidised commodities there and f*** local producers...Obviously africans politicians are also the ones to blame for signing such disadvantageous treaties for their people.
1436declo bawak: Key statement. '' A few times'' .
1437Alfredo Ubungen: so.....Trump was right?
1438Hhgf Jnbb: Why is Angela Merkel in favor of free trade. Shouldnt the Germans be fine with the US applying tariffs on European products?
1439hellrzr1966: Really? German man wants to import cheapest possible parts from China to resell at max in Germany. If you're buying Chinese, why would you pay extra for it in Germany anyway?
1440Joe Pierre: Stop globalization it's evil to America let's make everybody pay hard for what they done to this country and how much they've used it to be protected and cured of all their diseases and dirty countries like Germany should not exist if we're going to have a socialist agenda in the world my first one would be to take away the power from those who stole it from others Japan and Germany by the thieves
1441Pat H: Is the voiceover by Asia Kate Dillon of Billions and Orange is the new Black??
1442SuperLimerick: power and money talk
1443Mame A: This is very true! American is not always high-quality :/
1444Ludivine Witenberg: ????very truthfull documentary????
1445Choy Sum: Tariffs are like grading on a curve because the American students are too dumb to keep up.
1446408Magenta: The ladies in Philly don't like Donald Trump but he appears to be taking steps to try and shift production back in their country. Would they agree????????? Making a pretense to buy American-made but they buy a Volvo. Wooptee-doo!! Hypocrites.
1447Tyler Shrouder: The lady with the friggin saber peeling onions in the background all casual like.
1448John Smith: EU has trade alright. Africa gives them millions of uneducated poor young males and the EU gives them welfare. RIP Europe.
1449WindMaker KC: Now that I know, I'm having a second thought about Trump... Maybe he was right all along.. he is indeed stirring up the world.. Nationalism comes before everything... I was born to protect my people, my country.. And maybe trade is indeed a war.. A silent war.
1450Pyar Squared: Free trade destroys livelihoods? Stop right there. This is just a twisted propaganda video.
1451EvilMonkey7818: This was very eye opening. It has me looking at free trade differently, for real.
1452david githu: Thank you DW, very informative.
145332 Yr Old Casual Food Industry Worker: More great work from DW.
1454Ivan Drago: We want proctionism
1455Stephen Brackin: I only took one Economics course, the lowest-level introductory one, while I was an undergraduate at MIT, but I learned something in that course that Trump and his supporters don't seem to know: Whenever the relative costs of production for different products are DIFFERENT for two countries, then BOTH countries can profit from trading these products. For example, if in the US, 1 widget has the same production cost as 5 wodgets, while in China, 1 widget has the same production cost as only 3 wodgets, then the US can produce 5 wodgets while China produces 1 widget,and if the US then trades 4 wodgets for 1 widget that leaves both countries 1 wodget better off than they'd be if they hadn't traded with each other, and simply produced the products they wound up with themselves;The gains come from the increased efficiency of producing things where they're cheapest. Trump's letting the whining by US widget producers about "unfair" competition -- as if there were any such thing in business -- deprive consumers in both the US and China. His trade war will result in less total production and less total consumption for both countries. if it's severe enough, that's called a depression. Of course, if you replace "widget" with something like "home electronics" and "wodget" with something like "corn", both in appropriate units, and put in the ratios of real production costs in the two countries, and realistic amounts of traded products, then the simple example becomes a description of how things actually are. Obama understood all this, and there was nothing "hurtful to America" in his trade agreements; Clinton was a coward, a fool, and probably a liar, for going along with Trump's attacks on these trade agreements during the 2016 campaign. The nation and world will suffer for it.:-(
1456gustaf3 333: Without tariffs the global economy becomes a rat race to the bottom.
1457Top Ranked: JUrtans channel just like free healthcare is a myth I suppose? Only dumbasses think that free trade is ever gonna work. Every country protects their indurstrie
1458RaisedByWolves79: Educating and enlightening. Many thanks for this!
1459Alejandro Aparicio: Only the tag was made in the usa.lol
1460IB Diallo: DW have d best Documentary?
1461Ash Dixson: I'm impressed with the impartiality and quality of DW. Subscribed.
1462Paul cock: I think Trump came just in time for the middle class of the USA.
1463Justus Shwafati: Great video to watch!!!
1464northofyou33: The planet is under siege by the multinational corporations. We have to put constraints on them, and we have to do it now.
1465Syntax!: So Germany prospers while other places get more shit? Modern world is a service economy and those who can produce are going to outproduce you. As a developing nation you aren't going to beat china ever so you should take advantage of the only thing you have, locallity.
1466Atipat12: Great DW ???????
1467Maeu Daou: Hi Fedor, I don't speak for Europe, but I can speak for USA. Without immigrants, this country wouldn't be where it is today. Immigrants have contributed so much to the US economy. Have you ever worked with an American born? They are lazy. If they deicde work hard, they want to take all the credits to themselves. As an immigrant, I accept my place, and not even bother to speak up. It's a benefit to both. So don't act like immigrants came to steal your money. Which government can be that stupid? Definitely not USA.
1468T: From the thumbnail, i thought it's about shemales and transvestites.
1469peter tuann: I am so impressed with German honesty. Bravo.
1470Emma Pardino: That s why we have so many homeless and jobless people in the USA thanks to China!!!!
1471Akin Khoo: this video made a critical mistake. it implies Germany is taking advantage of a weak euro, but the weak euro is not the result of Germany, or more precisely, the USD is unnatually strong because of the unfair dominance of USD in world trade, especially in oil trade hence the term petrodollar. it is US policy that cause it currency to be in high demand that made the rest of the economy suffer. if the US doesn't like this, the US can approve of policy in the IMF to moderate and increase the weight and trade in euro and RMB, and give them more voting power in IMF, but US has so far refuse and are even dragging out the return of gold to foreign countries that would help increase those country's currency value. so in reality, it is US that is trying to dominate the financial system that cause it pain this pain. and the reason why US does this is to allow itself to commit to unsustainable is because US is addicted to debt. if US really want to end trade deficit, all they have to do is to end their budget deficit and discourage spending.
1472Contact Info: The EU structured as a socialist system with hidden cheats to favor china. Russia isn't in this criminalization.
1473Ellsworth M. Toohey: When a chinese engineer earns less than a african american hamburger flipper, you need "protectionism" !
1474Crypto Boss: This stupid proteccionism only helps germany! and fucks hard countrys like greece, protugal... if you tax 50% bikes on chinese who pays the fucking 50%? THE CONSUMER. Portuguese could buy from chinese and save 50% ! but no...they have to pay double to the fucking germans!
1475Rove Monteux: Everything I import from Asia gets double taxed. In Asia, and then here in the EU. And I, the consumer, pay the double tax. And have to go to hell and back with customs. Presumably to demotivate me from buying from abroad, and buy from the EU instead. Where's the free trade?
1476Wayne Plaisted: It's all about the Rich . we get to work harder for less .
1477Munyiri Maina: Say NO to free trade agreements meant to stiffle domestic industries. Looks like francophone Africa is the biggest looser in this game of deception.
1478Gunpowder & Lace: Hello. Actual American farmer here. Please be aware that virtually ALL grain crops in the US are subsidized. This wasn’t started for trade purposes. The program’s main purpose is to keep US food prices low. This means that even in bad crop years, the cost of things like bread and noodles doesn’t double or triple. Fruit and vegetable crops are not subsidized, which is why you see significant price increases in bad years. Many subsidies, like PLC, don’t kick in until commodity prices drop below the cost of production. The farmer isn’t making any more money than he would have if he had marketed his grain at a higher price mark in the current trading year. They don’t want farmers to be able to use collective bargaining to set the prices for their own crop. That used to happen before subsidies were introduced. We’re also required to purchase federal crop insurance, to the tune of $53,000 just for this growing season. Nobody GIVES us anything sweetheart. It’s not like welfare. We actually have to work for it. You don’t get subsidies for producing nothing. You can make a claim to get rid of them, but then the corporate farms will just take over and you can bet that they will certainly set their own prices. If a $10 loaf of bread sounds fine to you, then yeah, keep blaming subsidies for the problems of the world.
1479Angel Cinelli: Excellent Documentary. !!!. . Unfortunately big interests will prevent real change to happend... But soon or later humanity as whole will suffer the consequences..... The gap between rich and poor countries has the potential not only to collapse world economies, but the fabric of the political and social balance in the world.... even if most people don't want to see this now....
1480Lisa Catkin: The thing to realize in globalization is you are being F__ed slowly - those bicycles selling for $400 makes greatly more profit for the global inverters - you dont think Germany could produce them for $200? wholesale ? - that comb you buy at Walmart cost $.20 to make in China and they sell it Walmart for $2.00 but told you to think Walmart is bargain prices - that comb could be made in America for $.40 and sold for $1.20 but the global inverters would make less - it is the same with everything - the savings made getting goods made n China is eaten up and not passed on to you. When Walmart started they had MADE IN AMERICA signs on every isle - that was intended "come on" to capture the market - now Walmart prices are relatively high - even Family Dollar is much cheaper. You are being F___ed by the globalist inverters - do you think they care about your local businesses ?.
1481avib369: China has state subsidies,western countries on the whole don’t. Trump was right.
1482Charles Ramsey: who wrote this shit. Killing free trade didn't lead to world war two. It lead the richest time in US history. If this was written as a joke its pretty funny. Otherwise y'all need to study history and stop spreading lies.
1483daw dawiskid: Big ups to the small farmers god bless your businesses ONE LOVE..
1484Training IHM: 23:00 of course Chinese are better in making tiles..; they are the one who invented it
1485TWO CENTS ARMY: wto is a joke china fake copy everything but don't buy fakes.
1486Honeysuckle Blossom: It's a pity idiot trump doesn't know or understand so much about trade before he opens his gutter spewing mouth! I don't know much about trade, hence, I'm watching this. I wouldn't open my mouth or make important decisions before I took expert advice, knew all the prop and cons. He, on the other hand knows nothing, doesn't understand anything, doesn't want to know and won't take advice. Yet, he thinks he's so clever he knows everything and can make important decisions.
1487Geronimo: so you support chinese workers making cents and hour, basically slavery??? Good for you left minded thinker
1488Aerwynn Stormwind: It makes sense to slap tariff on imported products to protect your domestic industry, what doesn't make sense is to 1) do it with a fit of anger, 2) do it to many countries all at the same time and 3) escalate everything until it becomes the third trade world war.
1489curtis shaw: China is the root of all evil.
1490Peter Holák: The documentary completely forgets to mention why countries sign trade agreements that are supposedly so terrible for them. If they agreed to limit tariffs on imports, surely they must have done that for a reason? What are they getting in return? Not a word on this anywhere in the video...
1491Ghastly Grinner: Africans have no right to invade Europe and The US
1492Al.Mo.: What China is doing is not Free Market or Trade, China is abusing and cheating the game rules. Not that I blame China, but the capitalist companies are really to blame because they pushed in the 90's for open western trade with China, knowingly that they will be able to transfer production to the cheaper labor market. and now all of us have to suffer, with no one able to stop the expansion ambitions of the Anti-Democracy, Human rights abuser regime in China.
1493gospod dinchev: yes everybody is here to get america i like this video everydody is bad and americans is the victims hahaha PROPAGANDA
1494Pat H: haha sure, you should get her to dub parts of the shows for a laugh, i bet you'd be hard pressed to tell which is the original.
1495lundilar: What an eye-opener! My God, can Donald Trump, as much as I despise him,  be right about the trade imbalance?! And look how it's all connected: if you force other countries into poverty, then of course they will send immigrants to Europe.
1496Joseph Russel Timpug Ison: If the world becomes protectionist then China for one will suffer the most as its economy largely relies on international/free trade ? . So trade agreements are basically just a facade/lie? ?
1497Wolny Słowianin: It sounds like Europe is already doing all the things they said would destroy the world economy if Donald Trump were to implement them in the US as well as denying poor countries the right to protect themselves that way.
1498Monaleenian: The guilt-tripping in this video is absolutely outrageous. "Europeans are denying Africans what they need most; the right to institute measures to protect their, still vulnerable, agriculture sector." Is that a joke? Africans can do whatever they want with their own countries, including implementing the kind of idiotic measures advocated in this video.
1499Sam Sheikh: ?
1500Peter Magro: Free trade have brought enormous wealth. We are today richer than ever before. What we do with it, that way to much goes to a small group of corporations/people/nations, is another issue… Naturally greed and short term gains often is tempting so I want to have 10% tariffs but only pay 5% exporting to you...
1501Greg Belcher: Think about the purpose of imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Nation states built incredible wealth conquering the globe for free labour and cheap raw materials. Now that emerging markets are charging a fair price, now they need ‘protection’ because prices are too low? ? What a joke.
1502Ghastly Grinner: Real simple fix Outlaw robots all it take is the political will of a party to say No and that party remains in power for 100 years
1503Richard Opheim: Tariffs ultimately result in more input for the same or less output = impoverishment.
1504Colin Aulds: Sophistry and propaganda. Almost no economist doubts the superiority of free trade
1505Mike Varga: Chinese gvt can't subsidize forever. China's fall is going to hurt. And is definitely going to occur
1506George Maratos: you point out problems and then say there is no real solution. why even bother?
1507Nolom Ebal: I hate "Made in China" products.  Absolute crap!  I'd much rather pay more for "Made in America" or made in "Germany" or made in "Japan". Chinese products fall apart, have a very short life, are toxic,  they are just crap.
1508shad hasan: Western are good in destroying someone image and use bad word against them. Ultimately hatred is useful for them. This channel is not an exception. seems like i am wrong.
1509Calys Agora: Nonsense, what you just described is statism and socialism. Their ideology goes like this: "I want your money for doing nothing, and I'll use the force of government to get it." In free trade both parties are better off, mutual benefit, or the trade would not occur. Not so with taxation and other kinds of theft and coercion from governments.
1510hurd hatfield: Ricardos model anyone?
1511islandbee: We don't have free trade because we have government meddling in private individuals to have free trade.
1512André Laubscher: 2:26 lol.... In my country zoll is a nice big fat joint.
1513Philippe Colin: Pro globalist propaganda
1514wayne gummer: I would say this video is about as unbiased as a far right recruitment video... oh hang on... So let me just help you along with some basic economics, while not an expert I still appear to know more than the video producer. Now the lovely lady in Cameroon who grows onions, she can't because of these nasty cheap imports. That means that the cost of onions is 1/3 cheaper than her onions.. What does that actually mean? Well as she said the people use a LOT of onions, so this means the people of Cameroon have a considerable amount of extra cash. So a win for the people of Cameroon but a loss for her is your argument? Well she still has 2 choices. Either there is enough of a market in Cameroon for specialist onions grown in Cameroon that are willing to pay the extra premium. Or she can grow something else instead.... Which she was doing. Therefore not only do the people of Cameroon get cheaper onions, but they now have more access to this new vegetable she has started growing. The people of Cameroon win twice over and this lady just has to change her business model just like every other business. Your Swiss farmer also seems a little confused in thinking that price is the only driving factor. I am pretty sure that Switzerland for example is not the cheapest place to make watches... and yet they still do. so maybe they just need to specialise a bit more and move into the premium markets. Free trade brings down prices, making goods cheaper. This WILL of course kill local businesses that will just be replaced by other businesses, because the people will have a higher disposable income and will therefore start to spend more money on other goods and services that they would not have done before. You could of course have pointed to the fact that the EU the US and many other 'free trade' countries don't have free trade anyway because of how heavily they subsidise the farming industry. And actually rather than trying to stop onions being imported into Cameroon, we could remove the subsidies of the EU onion farms to make it fair. Because at the moment the people of the EU are effectively subsidising lower costs of onions to the people of Cameroon. (If I lived in Cameroon I would be quite happy for a European to pay for part of my shopping). And finally you try to make out that 'Free trade' is a contested idea. It is not in any way contested. EVERY serious economist will tell you that free trade is best and that everyone benefits, however as video's like this show, it would be a death sentence for any government to actually implement free trade because even though people would be richer and have more options, people don't realise the benefits and just complain about the thing they haven't used for the last 30 years not being there.
1515Tom in Puerto Rico: Trade with rules is not and never will be free trade.
1516manu de hanoi: at 28:30 "the european should give us time to build our own markets" as if the onion market was new in africa.....
1517MassDynamic: protectionism is ok so long as all other details are equal, such as quality and how much pollution was produced to provide the product or service. you can't just blindly purchase a product because it was made in a certain country. so i guess the main problem here is the consumer isn't given all the details involving the product or service. We Need Blockchain tech PS. WHERE SHAPIRO?
1518Kevin Brown: FAIR not Free Trade
1519Bolivian Billionaire: +Ghastly Grinner another JFK scenario for anyone with the balls to try that route, I'd imagine......
1520Cleezy: It’s comical how most of these countries are so opposed to tariffs when regarding to things they’re trying to sell but they themselves refuse to not impose tariffs in the country they represent
1521Citizenthirteen: Yep. i stopped watching after that. Nothing cheesier than a hypocrite.
1522UighurKnight: Opinion Engineering? This film is nothing but a preparation for a trade war.
1523GaslitWorld f. Melissa B: Exactly. And we can generally make luxury goods locally too or have a neighbor sell it to us if our land doesn't have the resources. Then we should trade with that in mind. If Egypt needs trees, why not get a limited supply from Lebanon, but make sure that Lebanese can get it first. Sell the surplus. If Egypt has myrrh, them myrrh for so much wood or something viewed as desirable to your trade partner. Millions go malnourished in S. America despite its vast export of food. That's nonsense and immoral.
1524Robert Hospodar: Seems like China is the entire problem, Letting China into the WTO was another pay to play mess the Clinton's got the US into. This decision has affected the entire world in a negative way. The people in China work for slave wages and there government uses the money to spread influence and propaganda.
1525lance ringquist: The ability of companies to allocate jobs globally changes the nature of the discussion about the “gains from trade.” In fact, there are no longer guaranteed “gains,” even in the long run, to those countries that export technology and jobs."
1526Marc St.james: i see lots of robots........
1527Sea Hag π: The quick history lesson implocating Protectionism causing the depression is bunk! The US went into the Great Depression from loans Defaulted in Europe! Guess they have to throw their propaganda in somehow! Gernamy can be very hypocritical.
1528Sandeep Kumar: amazingly clear soothing voice of the narrator
1529wanelly: Sew Hun had there been no WTO and IMF, there wouldn’t be any influx of immigrants. EU (or collectively the West) creates the immigrants.
1530Self-cucking Whiteman, FAKE NOOSE: You do realize most countries ip laws enter public domain after a certain time right?
1531Kiranjit Singh: Very informative... i also recommend BREXIT The Movie.... to understand cartels in disguise
1532Abdallah Biri: This documentary is truly eye-opening, I have never looked at this matter from the point of view that you presented.
1533Tyler Kropp: I think it's important to note that if not for free trade, those poor countries would not have clothes or cars or building parts or tools or anything. They would have to make everything themselves, which is bad, because they aren't good at making everything. Additionally, when someone makes a trade, both sides win, because the purchaser wants the good more than the money, and the producer wants the money more than the good. Protectionism prevents consenting individuals from conducting trade. You guys have to have some perspective. A few hundred years ago, literally everyone except a fraction of the top 1% were poor as dirt. Those poor people did not invent factories or new products; it was those with capital.
1534Dean Baumgartner: Sara, you have interviews you never took a part in they are just snips from someone else. Give us a report on how banks set up WW1 and WW2. Show us how Henry Ford set up manufacturing in Germany, almost interest free from the bankers. Demand and supply is what runs the world economy. I live in a country that encouraged farmers to plant a certain crop. I took these farmers to a supplier, she showed me a three year supply of the product. What was she to do?? Buy a product she did not need, just to support a government project. Do your research, than put a voice to it. D
1535Dick Plummer: Only the consumer can make the correct choice in buying local. It may cost more, but you are not giving your money to communists, and you are providing work for yourself and others.
1536Mar-Works: A form of control
1537ettekamba6969: Produce locally and and consume locally.
1538lou: The trouble is that more of us are joining the lower middle class because of economic policies and practice. I would rather have a bunch of medium sized industries in country and have more good paying jobs than have minimum wage jobs and a lot of cheap imports.
1539Philippe Rouchy: It is a lot cliché as analysis. The win of one country is the loss of another!? Basic trade course in economy will contradict this cliché. The lower prices of traded products allow better productivity of the buyer - which is not accounted in import export rate. Change of industry is a constant and accelerating process of adaptation. Firms in the US like Ford stop to make European-like models because the us market for them is trucks and suv. There is a self distribution of market efficiency relative to demand unless, as underlined by the report, cartel and trade monopoly are erected by states who wants to garanted vested interest of some. That vested interest (like the agriculture policy in Europe) is a political struggle, not an economic one.
1540Tejas Shelar: No surprises here.
1541jacob edwards: All that stealing our American money days are over!
1542Wulf Wulf: Trump for the Americans ! Trump for life !
1543James Sitati: chokkan, whats your point, even the USA provides subsidies to its farmers and large corporation are given government bail outs.
1544Tamuno-Opubo Cookey-Gam: I think German is the next language I'll learn.
1545Kitty Genovese: 20:57 " WWII can be traced to protectionist policy put in place by USA" DW Doc. your not a propaganda arm of Germany.
1546Craig Jeffrey: ..and our Govt in New Zealand is blindly following everything free trade like it's the gift from God.....
1547HD93: Free trade will only work if it is 100% free, NO exception whatsoever. The same idea is with Communism - everyone will work equally/ try hard with the SAME paid.
1548Kazuyo Leue: Fuji in Taiwan is related to Japan. China wants to get into Taiwan but thank god not possible yet. Free trade is hard and not possible because every country has different situations, different skill offers and different value, We need to negotiate and protect our country from free evil traders like China.
1549JUrtans channel: Trade that is truly free is a myth, well said!
1550B.C Drisk: so tariffs are great for Africa and Europe but not America? LOL nice try
1551hyou zan ren: When you make shitload of profit you demand(often with gun point!) Free trade and open market! But when you lost money you add tariff and close the door? Hyporite indeed!
1552ivan date: 38:40 .... that is meritocratic fact , that is human nature fact
1553Michael Gfroerer: Think about it: everything in your home is "Made in China" and people are wondering why they're unemployed? This is solely the fault of government for not protecting jobs at home. "Communist" China is the most dishonest trade partner you could find-they pay workers to create cheap items which put regional businesses out of business. In addition, China has one of the most horrific histories of human rights abuses. Now China is becoming a world military leader and is threatening democracy and freedom of speech (in Hollywood movies, for one) and to top it off, China owns the foreign debt of many nations, which makes them subservient to Chinese interference. The only solution would be to isolate China.
1554Vatsek: Good info.
1555Patrik Banek: We need to keep free trade and remove tariffs. It helps us live better and be more efficient, healthy growth of economy.
1556Branson Man: Grow food and be free...
1557Roger K: CHIMEX O. Who is it bennificial to then? Only to big corperations, everyone else suffers from it.
1558Abcd efgh: Most of the world's Brand like apple , levis , Gucci , Armani , reebok , nike etc . import their products from countries like Bangladesh , vietnam , Indonesia at a very cheap price and then put their tag and sell them all over the world at very high range price . and make money by basically doing nothing .
1559Upgrayedd: It's simple, as long as workers don't have the same laws and rights in different countries, free trade will result in economic imbalance which can only be slightly corrected with import/export duties. Globalism benefits the rich, while driving down the working class to the lowest bidder.
1560Denise Proxima: scottab140 Adam Smith is 1800 century. It's a other world now.
1561Jah'net M: Informative. Very sad indeed for the poor..
1562Derick Lewis: Free trade is simply making normal every day people poorer
1563Alexander Somm: It isn't the Germany's fault for producing better quality. The US like German cars, who can blame them? Trump does, so he slaps tariffs...
1564luiskp: 17:00 What that lady doesn´t know is that most american flags made in the U.S. are made by prisoners who get paid 30-40 CENTS per hour. Talk about fair trade.
1565darryl hall: buy local....
1566Team Americana: Fair trade>free trade
1567cujoe Mblakka: The cooperatives in third world countries should target the export markets of the countries importing to their markets, if they are blocked, then, they will know what to do. For the price in the developed countries is a lot more, even with tariffs. Africa have an advantage because their labour cost is cheap, while they are centrally located in relation to the markets.
1568Luigi LI: I agree. Entrepreneurs from Germany also makes profits.
1569Bruce Liu: We need a full rethink of labor and economics. Similar to the Lincoln days.
1570Ronald Schultenover: Don't shop Target buy made in USA you can find it if you look
1571No Hope Equals no fear: Boycott everything. Stop spending money
1572INTJ-Scorpio-Sigma-Male: Stupid for destroying the planet over.. survival?
1573Rankin' TushiY: The reason why the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer
1574ste woolf: WTO should promote fair trade instead of free trade. Ideally, fair means mutually beneficial to both sides, economic and environmental sustainable, quality employment and products, and improving productivity.
1575DAT TAPE: what's with the ending. "always be winners & losers" ???? Are business transactions & trade benefiting both sides even if it's not equal benefits? that's what free market is. the ones who are smarter, work harder, or just lucky are the ones who "win" more in the exchange. Let's face it. If it wasnt a win win situation for both parties, there would be NO trading.
1576blusky9: Free Trades only benefit the rich and developed countries! The poor and underdeveloped have No chance to compete And get screwed... resulted in inequalities . The gap keeps widening! Is this what we call democracy or capitalism?
1577Ricardo: "seemingly unaware the damage free trade does". As a reporter you should be sacked for biasing a story.
1578Love4pizza: thank you!
1579J A: The Free trade access the EU insists on in African countries would remain one-sided until Chinese bicycle manufacturers move to Africa.
1580Sunny Quackers: free trade pollutes our world terribly.
1581DW Documentary: Hi Yon S, what exactly are you (not) talking about and would you make us understand, please? Thanks
1582Inter Vest Com: Good and fair report!
1583Leander Barreto: Fix the system.Tax havens should be banned
1584Kilpatrick Kirksimmons: Donald Trump isn't right about much but his instincts on trade are pretty accurate. There's a high cost to low prices, and fewer people in the West are willing to bear that cost. I'm surprised it took this long for people to realize there are more important considerations in an economy than simply buying cheaper shit, but better late than never.
1585Denise Proxima: novelaviator immigration. Europe is overpopulated.
1586eden terra: Free trade really means slave wages trade. Sickening.
1587DoubtUnites: 39:26 ah this is where you're heading. Global Taxation. Government wants a piece of the pie as well. greedy statist scum.
1588Youtube Comment Troll Regulator: hello i like the background music. please provide the name of the first background music. thank you!
1589Paula: I wish DW would provide some sources from where they get the data.
1590Tiago Blanch: The main point here is the idea of tariffs is to even the board, especially when you are competing with developing nations (dumping). The difference between Trump's tariff is that he wants to create an artificial advantage to US companies.
1591Paul Wilson: Buy your own country's products because the free trade is destroying the world and China and Germany are doing the best
1592robert stevens: Importing cheap goods is short sighted
1593Akbar, Allard Freichmann: Flags and pride cannot be eaten. Use a bike sell the car.
1594james ohara: There's no such animal as free trade, it's subsidized trade, if those who are subsidized would play the game there wouldn't be a problem, but when you bite the hand that feeds you, Fuck You!.
1595Warner Bauer: The Great Depression was not caused by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. This has already been debunked. The Depression was caused when the Federal Reserve tightened liquidity. It was the lack of funds that caused a collapse in consumption which caused a fall in trade. So it was not the trade tariffs.
1596James Campbell: In September 11, 2009, President Obama imposed a 35 percent tariff on tires imported from China, in an effort to boost the domestic tire industry, which was being overrun by less expensive Chinese tires. MAY 17, 2012 - The United States hit Chinese solar companies with punitive import tariffs of 30 percent or more on Thursday, ruling they had dumped cut-price solar panels into the U.S. market. Funny, when Obama imposes tariff's it's to boost American jobs etc, etc. but when Trump imposes a tariff less then double the percentage he's an isolationist and it's a trade war? Really? Complete bias view point. Ask any German or Japanese person how much an American made car costs in their country. It's nearly double the price in American dollars.
1597Bonzi Buddy: Good info to ill inform people. Think these commies will ever do a documentary on communism or marxist policies?
1598Matt Obermiller: Don't forget, if you make more than $34,000 a year in the US, you are in the wealthiest 1% in the world.
1599Jack Lee: World trade rules are designed to please the West, whose countries alone determine the rules and how they should be implemented (for their own benefit).
1600Danny Llerena: Meanwhile here in the US people are complaining because they can't afford houses and cars as easily anymore and want to tax their rich more giving back to their lower classes. How about we apply that same logic to all countries? How much are the rich giants like USA, Germany, China,..; going to get taxed extra for their exports? And how much for destroying poor countries economy? Yeah the rich countries and all their people would be off so much worse... Hating on the rich in here all the while not realizing how much you are also benefiting thanks to them. No logic or understanding of economics in here. It's sad but only the richest countries win in the long run.
1601FATBINK: Of course it's all Trumps fault.
1602Wisepersonsay: Consumer awareness is the key solution. Buy local products. Buy healthy products. Boycott products containing harmful ingredients and made by modern slavery. Boycott cheap and nasty ''Made in China'' products. We can do more with less. Consumerism must be revised. We need quality of life in quantity.
1603Nitin Kumar: Many products are not made in Germany anymore, because many products create water, land and air pollution which Germany or many developed countries won't allow anymore, that's why European cities looks clean. The employees in developed countries are not exposed to toxic environment. So it is not only about wages which this program seems to emphasizing. Anyway, excellent documentary that hit on many topics.
1604Per Holmgren: The entire point of the EU, and the at-a-glance insane agricultural policies, was to allow Europe to maintain dominance of its colonies while avoiding the horrible pr colonialism brought. The EU pours money into the agricultural sector to ensure a surplus is always maintained, thereby keeping primitive economies like that found in the former colonies from developing by selling their food cheap.
1605solomonarbc: Hating on the rich means they get, proportionally, taxed less for the same type of tax, have better borrowing conditions and even government subsidies as public contracts, and can go bankrupt anytime without having their kids thrown into the streets. Grow up!
1606Mike Smith: Good to see, I have been wanting an environmental tax on all third world non safety/environmental standard cuntries. . As it still is our world so who is most likely to fix it, the developed stable countries. So it is just an evironmental fix levy in advance for all the shit they dump in rivers, pollute air and contaminate soil. Level playing field currently....wtf suck my dick, no way. They not have safety or wage standards we have and yet we have to compete, look how many miners are killed in Ameica v's China 24deaths to 5,000 deaths every year.
1607holycrapchris: Protectionism: "protects" consumers from low prices. Chinese bike imports destroy jobs.... in one industry. This documentary completely overlooks the benefits to the consumers of the importing country. If consumers pay 10% less by purchasing imported goods, that 10% doesn't just disappear. It is injected into the economy, either through spending or investment. That bike seller in Philadelphia has a business _because of_ imported bikes. If they were domestically-produced and therefore more expensive, he would sell fewer bikes. Maybe he'd only have one bike shop instead of two. Yes, there are some people whose businesses will be interrupted by competition. That's the nature of business. The onion growers pivoted to another crop; that's how it's supposed to happen. And the onion purchasers? They're all paying _massively_ less for their food, freeing up budget perhaps to pay tuition fees for their kids. The poor don't need to be protected from free trade. Trade (and a shift toward capitalism) has brought a billion poor Chinese and Indians out of poverty in a generation. That's _staggering_ , and can't be ignored.
1608Pixie aka: ytrew poiujhujyunhbgvfcd also steel being sent to U.S. made in China U.S. dont buy China steel. China steal tech from U.S. Canada 270% on milk to U.S. theres lots of issue with unfair tariffs
1609deathdeathdeath4516: Great documentary thank you
1610Boris S: Very biased by DW. Criticising US trade protection and glorifying EU trade protection.
1611ecobra169: Oppressionand and Their Oppressors
1612jim parsit: Good doc. the solution is simple if the poor can get together Harmony and self-reliance, stop shopping at corporate stores, create your own house, food, clothes and etc. the rich will go out of business. It is the poor make the rich richer, so change yourself first. But the poor keeping kills themselves, and cannot form it as a strong organization, so remains poor and depended on the corporation products.
1613Alexander T: Yes you are free to buy made in china products and undermine the german economy. Do you want the state to force you not to? Or can we be responsible with our money power and support the local industry? We still have a choice. Until its all taken from us by force.
1614starmanskye: The post-ww2 Bretton Woods agreement madating global US Dollar reserve-currency status based on predatory fiat-money debt-finance capitalism is the biggest, most corrupt, destabilizing, unjust and diabolically dangerous ponzi-scheme ever devised. It has enabled praetorian-corporate globalization to devastate local and regionally-integrated based economics of shared prosperity and citizen-rule democratic autonomy, sabotaging self-sufficient community/national development, trade, manufacturing and productivity as multi-national corporate-profits outweigh the invisible costs of serious environmental, social and geopolitical degradation, damage and instability ~ resulting in 70 years of manufactured crises and wars, extortion and protection-racket syndicates ~ thanks to the offshoring and outsourcing of Reagan-era license-to-plunder-and-pillage neoliberal laize faire policies as per Trotskyite corporatism and neocon dominionism. Standards for internationally-guaranteed and consistent price/cost currency-parity would have been the most fair, intelligent, prudent, just and equitable policy to stimulate the highest degree of development, productivity, standards-of-living, manufacturing, wise-use, efficiency and shared prosperity around the world, eliminating much or most of the causes for dislocations, exploitation, corruption, misrule and instability that characterizes the last 70 years of western-imposed globalization and Cold War/GWOT opportunism. It AIN'T rocket-science. ~ ; )
1615S. Gillespie: It's ridiculous to want fairness for "your" country ( Germany) but not for "others" (Cameron in Africa)! There's nothing fair about it. Seems the EU wants to dump all their produce into Africa! They want protectionism for their countries but denies protectionism to others...Not giving Africa the chance to grow and develop!
1616Hayden Philbert: Bikes are much cheaper at the moment.
1617subhadip ojha: ??? frm India ??
1618Paul and Ancila: This documentary is either biased or just poorly researched. Let's start with some basic facts on global trade and tarriffs. It's by no means a level playing field when it comes to the three largest economies (USA, China and EU). The US has very low (even zero in many cases) import tariffs on foreign goods, whilst China and the EU have very high (20% + import duty = 28-30% import tax on most goods) and China has selective tariffs which again are very high and designed to protect their domestic economy from competition. For example, car imports into China attract a 25% import tax. Then there's the another issue often overlooked in global trade...state sponsorship of industries. In Europe, this is common with France subsidising car manufacturing, in China many would be shocked to know China State owns outright or State-sponsors 30-50% of manufacturing capacity in many areas of their economy and taxes foreign manufacturers on Chinese soil higher than domestic manufacturers (meaning foreign goods made in China are going to be more expensive than Chinese factories). Then there's the question of currency manipulation. All Chinese exports are done in US dollars and their domestic currency is not floated and traded on the open market, despite them being the 2nd largest economy. They have the best of both worlds..the ability to trade with the largest economy on earth (US) with very little or no tariffs, and their domestic currency is shielded from market exposure and trading pressures. Then there's the very poor countries (who often make very high quality food commodity products, like sugar, coffee, tea, chocolate etc), who are getting a raw deal exploited by central cooperatives/governments and Western corps pressuring them on price, with no clear international fair trade agreements in force. Global trade is by no means a level playing field at present. But the USA, being the largest economy on earth has been exploited for a long long time, especially by China. It's right that Trump should be adopting an America First policy on trade. A strong American economy is a strong global economy. If America's economy fails or their markets decline, we all suffer. Again, Trump is right to be very critical of the EU's approach to trade, the single market and common tariff system. It's unfair to foreign businesses, and it's unfair to small businesses in the EU that are put a global disadvantage if they have to import goods for export.
1619Pixie aka: So everyone dump china lol
1620nikolasthethief: By far my favorite broadcaster. Far and wide.
1621Vizfactimus Maximus: Cheers to Donald Trump!
1622Telluwide: Bored Affluent American Housewife starts a website "Buy American" yet one of the biggest purchases a consumer makes is their car. What does she buy? A Volvo! Hypocrite......
1623ThereIs Afountain: Great Documentary
1624bing li: Paul Drake here in China, high costing of living and lower wage, bubble housing price maximized that not one can afford. The economy is weird.
1625Lawney Malbrough: Every nation should have the fredom to engage in trade as it sees fit for the benefit if it's own people not the peole of the world! Chins has no interest in the wlefare of American ciitzens and neither does germany or England or France. And don't get me started on Cananda. We know what they think of American! As for Mexico they want to take this land back! The TWO is not interested in the welfare of any peole on earth they work for the wealthy and only the wealthy. The WTO is runing the lives of people in Camaroon. They care nothng for those peoples lives. What's behind this effort to destroy the lives of peole? I can't really say, but I know it's evil! anyone talkng about free trade is evil! Unlimited free trade is a dngerous thng it destroys lives! To protect the lives of those who's lives are already more than good enough.
1626tillallareoneluv: Sounds good. Looks bad. Taste terrible.
1627odetomy: America got screwed in this whole mess. I wish America would wake up and create new or bring back a lot of manufacturing jobs. Americans need more jobs!! We need a variety of jobs too (manufacturing, office, retail, technology, food, etc., etc.). Instead of all the babble, people in power need to actually DO SOMETHING and get Americans back on our feet and back to good jobs!! I'm so sick of what I have seen over the last 20 years! I'm so glad something is finally being done to try to protect our jobs. I'm all for global trade. I have nothing against doing business with other countries, but it has to be fair and American jobs should always be protected.
1628perry reasch: USA paid companies to move to other countries
1629Alfred Fiawornu: Europe is Africa's problems.
1630SUCK MY BALLS DRY YEEEAh SUCK, SUCK IT DRY: Just boycott china products .
1631Moonglow: Stupid video.
1632V H: So it turns out that President Trump didn’t start a trade war. It’s always been on but of course the socialist media wanted to depict it that way so that they can keep on demonizing him!
1633Junior Colada: Its easy... Why you buy 1 dollar for egg when you can buy 0.8 dollar for same egg?
1634Sampath K: DW, Please do a documentary about Palm oil and rain forests.
1635circusboy90210: there is no reason to take jobs away from a nation over labor. it's usuallly a tax issue.
1636Morph Verse: Can you imagine what full on automation could do to all of this?.
1637Lisa nelson: Europeans are not denying Africans of anything Africans are denying Africans of their own future. If very African rich or poor thought clearly of things they do before they do it they can create a better country . To tell me they are no longer owned by Europe but still speak french,spanish or any other European language and not their native langue is not a sign of growth or change its a joke to tell me that places in Africa still have names after the Europeans is even a bigger joke. Growth starts with simple changes and to let Africa be Africa it should be treated like Africa from decisions to names to languages to trade wealth distributions and these things needs to happen fast not tumble pace.cause if the rest of the world moves quicker than Africa then the rest of the world will own Africa have their way with Africa.
1638D. N.: And the US doesn't exploit other countries too? How about all Latin America and the Middle East? Hasn't the US/CIA put dictatorships in democratic countries just to make it easier for its multinationals to exploit the natural resources in other countries? Yes, the EU has its issues, no doubt, but don't play it innocent when it comes to the US, please.
1639albedoshader: @rick santos >All nations should seek to be heavily self-sufficient on key goods and services... All nations should have the same natural resources and the same population densities. Oh, it doesn’t work this way? Now... that sucks. I guess we trade with other countries to get stuff we can’t produce ourselves, then. Oh, wait... that’s bad, right?
1640T Hyslop: Debt creation and contrived wars are manufactured to illicit a reaction, with the solution being overreactionary organizations like the WTO, which establishes even more control.
1641Mame A: Bankers are the easy way to wealth... Learned that back from Oregon Trail video game in school ;D
1642Tech Gents: I doubt this 45min documentary is enough to cover everything about free trade but it is a good starting point for one to do further research should one be inclined. Greed is the inherent Achilles Heel of any nation especially when it comes to trade.
1643detroitmetro101: bike making monopolies, sure ill roll the dice. there is more consumer variety today than there ever was before. if an industry has overcapacity, monopolies are the result, shout out to marx. think of monopolies like state departments, or ministries, that provide basic goods and services, which is what they become, like utility companies. anyway, if there is a market for innovation and competition, then we will have innovation and competition, think also about all the old industries that are being challenged by online companies, like taxis by uber, a lot of the old industries will go bankrupt, including the monopolies. point being, disruptions in the market are scary, historically they've led to economic upheaval and wars, but they've also led to great leaps forward, so if we can reduce upheaval and prevent the war parts, progress is inevitable, and we may prevent the former with universal incomes, or whatever else we can come up with. like i said before, we now have the time to think about these things.
1644Osman Jerry: Wages is the most important aspect. When the products come out cheap, they are going to mop the market. So the US and the west must find their comparative advantage. How can you fight with China and Bangladash if you were to produce the same products they make.
1645jacob edwards: They ship your tax here and our tax there! That is how they steal on a global basis daily!
1646G Money: My trek has made in the USA on it...is it true
1647Fatehjot Singh: Only if you are vegan you really care about animals
1648Monaleenian: Protectionism will not help Africans. It might benefit a few Africans at the expense of the vast majority of Africans. If every African country has to do everything itself, down to building every motorbike that is used in its country, they will be even poorer than they are now. Protectionism is often motivated by the same thinking that results in people favouring self-sufficieny. This kind of thinking leads to extreme poverty. The "Consumer Rights Activist" at 28:18 is calling for policies that will worsen the lives of Cameroonian consumers.
1649H0LDENSUX: What a hypocrite, the second most expensive consumer item is a car and she goes off and buys one made in China. Booo Hooo.
1650Marianatassa: If governements in the EU lowered the taxes we can produce also cheaper goods, most of our money now goes to housing and taxations.
1651PaiN ExoTiC: Nothing is fair in life.
1652Denise Proxima: Krisztián Kőrösi Reduce the people. The problem is to much people and the grow.
1653Cenks Narrative Translator: Great Documentary!! As for the "Buy American" Women, if they don't like Trump, fine. Buying a Volvo however = Hypocrite!!
1654Milton Waddams: 18:45 Yes, you can buy an American made toaster -- you just have to buy it used. But that woman doesn't care about the environment, only about geography. She probably thinks of herself as a good person, lol.
1655Linda: I thought this was a bad documentary because there were not enough experts, and those experts that are proponents of free trade were not heard. 90%-99% of economists agree that free trade is good, yet they were not given a voice. That's why I think this documentary is not neutral.
1656parmbir dhaliwal: Trade has only one definition. I want your money ,no matter what.
1657John King: Everybody on the planet is going to suffer for Trump's stupidiyt. Not least the american people.
1658LIBERTY for humanity: Germany good luck if one of these days you find out how wrong is for Germany to allow Chinese companies government buy your companies and the whole future for your country. i believe Chinese government is a NIGHTMARE FOR HUMANITY they are so so corrupted and greedy and violators of humanity and stealing everything from the whole world even from very poor people ?
1659Ancor Dorta: the problem is that UE subsidizes agricultural export while making huge entrey tariffs... there is no free trade... thats "dumping"
1660Mimi Jeff: YES YES AND YES!!! You should have been interviewed for this documentary. I fear some of this documentary though NOT ALL of it was pushing propaganda.. BUT WHAT YOU SAID IS THE BOTTOM LINE.
1661Cris Yorke: Germany will be like the U.S. not long after. Many companies in Germany are being offshore and the German officials aren't doing much about it.
1662John Boy: Had to stop when that lady was driving a Volvo which ford sold off to avoid government bail out that's the major thing she screwed us over on then gonna complian about shit that cost $5 what an idiot
1663Eric Richter: What happens when there are no protective tariffs on bicycles? Bike riders pay less for their bikes.
1664Bob Saturday: 1:07 intriguing lookin woman
1665circusboy90210: nothing wrong with camaroon banning the import of onions , as they should. same thing in the usa, ban the sale of foreign steel here. nothing wrong with that.
1666Ray Lee: Haven't I been reading from the media that the West has been bashing China for helping the African farm.
1667Pietro Jenkins: And the biggest trader in the evil trade of importing arms is India. Why does India trade so much in the business of human slaughter?
1668rolldeepNASA: whining about the evils of free trade is basically admitting to the shitty quality of your product _ but really... it's about the disconnect between the powers that be and the worker
1669milkybar06: Come to Australia. back in the 50s,60s,70s, and 80s we made everything now we make virtually nothing. There are only 4 petrol refineries left. Most of our oil products come via Singapore. We don't even make cars anymore. We cannot compete with Germany, China, America and France, just to name a few. Even our ports are being sold to China. Like the port of Darwin. Even worse we have so much coal yet most of it is being exported or left in the ground. We are relying more and more on solar wind other forms of renewable energy, so electricity prices have sky rocketed and industries cannot compete with cheap imports. Some people cannot even afford to turn the heater during winter. The problem with renewable s is that its not always available if the wind doesn't blow or sun doesn't shine out go the lights. They are also not good for base load power.
1670DK Knight: What the Chinese are doing is blatant economic warfare. There is no other country doing this to spam levels. All for the promise of rat infested ghost towns for their citizens. 30% cheaper should not have made the onion industry tank in Cameroon. People just don't pay attention to the decisions they make. They only see cheapest price point. Not only do I try to buy American but I try to buy locally whenever possible. In electronics it could get a little steep. I am looking at Japanese product and a cheap Chinese knockoff costing 80% less.(or the Japanese product costing 5 times as much or more) !!! Youtube is a product Alphabet controlled by globalists ------ Flickerpedia
1671Doug T: Very well done.
1672PUERTOrico FORMER/usaMARINE: china is the number one world enemy no doubt
1673Po-Hsuan Huang: For each iphone sold in the world, Chinese workers get 2% of the revenue, while Apple get more than 60%, and people blame Chinese steal their money. I bet you think free trade is Chinese invention and western companies gained nothing from it.
1674J Silva: Buy America and she bought a Volvo??
1675PotatoRun: so basically protectionism basically benefit the few business owners by making the consumers pay more overall?
1676Tusk: china this china that but you you didnt mention the Canadian jobs that have been destroyed by the Tarifs that trump did on aluminium and steel thanks to that idiot we have been forced to retaliate with our own tarifs which have caused the loss of american jobs in the food industry thus starting a trade war and if this keeps up Canada will be forced to cancel its alliance with the US and join the Russian and Chinese side and then go to war with the US you dont believe me? well its these trade wars that started WWI in the first place
1677Wyborg Law: brilliant doc.
1678Richard Hannay: Damn...
1679Ryan: Again they're being biased and somewhat propagandic. They keep choosing interesting topics though.
1680Les Mylo: The stock market crash and great depression happened because of 10% margin was only necessary for purchase of stock, and when the speed bump happened...it was fake markets. Fake economies exist today...but not in America. Everything we see was destined to be best for America if issues came forward with people we did business with. Ability for making highest levels of technology reigns supreme ...and always will... You cannot pay people to make stuff if the company is closing and there is nobody to sell to.
1681Abraham Shekelbergstien: J A Caro lol look at iPhones. The X is $1100 and it’s made in China !
1682Daniel Briones: The title of the documentary is deceptive and the argument is flawed. Your documentary is full with examples of how protectionism creates inefficiencies, from the agricultural market in Europe to the chicken farms in Africa. It is true that free trade shifts jobs from less efficient to more competitive places, but that benefits the consumer by providing him with a high quality product at a lower cost. With protectionist policies you may save some jobs, but that would also mean that consumers would have to pay a higher price for the same products and would end up with less money to buy other products.
1683Thecontrodude proversial: Irene Austin she didn’t say it did
1684Tuppoo94: Every country should at least produce its own food, unless it's absolutely impossible. In fact, every country should strive to be as self-sufficient as possible. That would bring clarity into the trade disputes of the world. Countries would only import goods which they're unable to produce by themselves. Of course, this kind of thinking is instantly labeled as "laughably idealistic and naive thinking".
1685Aleksandar Kolev: The West, impose tariffs and protectionism, and then complain about illegal immigrants. Free market and individual property and right must be at global scale, not only in Europe and USA, otherwise unstable immigration with clash the world. Can someone imagine if African nations imposing protectionism of their resources? It would be bad for many western manufactures. Only unproductive companies would beg for protectionism, because can't compete worldwide. DW is the most biased socialist medium. Why don't mention the other perspective, that at global scale the poverty is decreased thanks to globalism and free markets. Overproduction !? Really?
1686James Suhr: New Zealand is currently talking to Europe about trade in agriculture .We have no farm subsidies ,so we will see how that goes.
1687Vaughan: How is everyone claiming that this is unbiased? This is extremely one sided, throughout the whole documentary. This documentary conveniently forgets about the consumer and focuses with tunnel vision on producers. Constantly mentioning the negative effects of free trade for producers, but not the positive effects for consumers. Why? Because it doesn't fit the narrative. Thumbs down.
1688solomonarbc: If those small local farmers can't grow the crops you have two problems: increased reliance on imports and an army of unemployed/migrants. You tell me how the EU farmers are a part of the world trade when they were given subsidies because they complained like the a bunch of ******* in the first place. EU citizens aren't paying them money to go abroad and bankrupt small local farmers! EU food exports must be taxed to get the subsidies back. It was about internal food security, not world wars on other farmers.
1689ettekamba6969: Africa shd shut them all out.
1690kerryphillips1: The complaint about imported onions and other produce is flawed. A poor low-income country should be grateful for low cost imported food. Cheap food = less starvation, but nothing is mentioned about that country's exports...
1691JonesJr876: Allow her some things.
1692Ricardo: Protectionism was part of the Prussian Empire and greater Germany.
1693Tsar Pushkin: ofcourse ! only the governments nag about Trump, the common people agree with Trump especially on immigration
1694lissa leggs: Globalism is peace, Nationalism only leads to war. https://assets-bwbx-io.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOg_PnUt6iqQ/v1/-1x-1.png Globalism isn't dead, it hit a speedbump end of GW Bush term. Not even Trump can stop Globalism. He is better off in jail do he stay out of the way. He is headed to bankrupt anyway and is a nobody in comparison to that chart, Putin can go fist himself and die.
1695Balen Mars: why people of Switzerland work?! most of the stolen money from Africa and the ME go to the Swiss banks and the government there protect the world's thieves by strict laws, just recently they demanded the extradition of a whistleblower. Why then work?! You can afford golden cars, villas and luxury life for each and everyone there without producing a grain of rice!
1696Hussain Mirahmadi: 17:29 , it looked awesome though :(
1697Mankindfails: This trade bs is only possible because oil is available for cheap for certain countries. Otherwise anyone with two working brain-cells understand its very stupid to import cheap goods from another continent... This may be a huge problem but its a short time huge problem, lets see in 20 years if we'll still get 1$ crap imported from China all the way to America on ships bigger that some cities...
1698BADGUY 1: "Free Trade" is what China, Germany, Canada, Japan tells US to follow. "Free Trade" is what the THEY would NEVER be dumb enough to follow!
1699lou: +anderson Well, maybe people in the U.S. were employing Mexican labor because our U.S. guys were trying to get rich quick. Of course, what happened is that the greedy boss brought them in so he could make more money. It didn't get down to the workers, and it didn't reduce the price to the consumer. Try and find a plumber who will do a good job and charge a reasonable price now. Or about any other trade that doesn't use foreign workers. I think the greed in the financial world that nearly brought down the economy showed the average person that crime paid. No one went to jail for that one in 2008.
1700WHO TOLD YOU THAT!?: 408Magenta I haven’t even gotten to that part of the video but absolutely can testify to that Fact Philadelphia is a consumerism wasteland! No production just purchasing it’s horrible here
1701Francoise Loffler: Products from Germany are excellent quality..the best in the world...
1702kongming2005: Those of you complain about foreign companies opening at your country and pay less, please use your brain to think deeper, or you actually prefer no one comes in? Perhaps it is better without them, you can just hang around and eat grass
1703Ann Onymous: Trade increases prosperity. It also makes peace likelier: peoples who do business with each other are less likely to blow each other up. Looking at You Germany. It's like you forgot all about the EU. This video is a comically horrible sop to the SPD with it's usal leftist lies/stupidity not knowing whats good for ordinary people. But hey discredit DW entirely in the eyes of any serious economist or jurist.
1704ybet1000: Importing alot of Jihadies and welfare recipients... is there any import tariffs on these trade items? Is this trade beneficial to the importing country?
1705Nobody4president: It is the slave wages in China, the lack of worker's benefits, combined with Government subsidies, and lax to non-existent environmental protection, that entices foreign companies to offshore to China, maximizing their profits. Yet the person who opposes so-called free-trade is smeared as being xenophobic, isolationist, and a nativist, by globalist neoliberals and their media outlets. Never are the tables turned to where the neoliberal "free-traders" must defend their position on free-trade from the perspective of China's abysmal human rights record, little to no workers rights, and China's environmental disaster. That free-trade is perceived as the moral high-ground is a propaganda coup of epic proportions. This is not to mention that China has done what all nations do with their economic might; they have converted it into military power the like of which has never been seen before. When Lenin said that “the Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them," he didn't realize it would have a tag that read MADE IN CHINA.
1706Kevin Branton: HUY PHAM Those toilet seats are all made in China dummy. Do some homework next time.
1707User USER: Change your diet.
1708Wisepersonsay: Despite the fact we all need to eat to survive, agriculture is least regarded. There is a future for this essential business sector - alternative farming to aim self-sustainability. No nations is secure if it relies heavily on food import. Awareness will change the wrong shift.
1709Iguana Pete: Ban the Bankers...
1710Devesh Saxena: Who Me yes it's commie propaganda. That people should not kill traders from distant lands selling things which the locals also sell. Welcome the Robber in the name of Free Trade.
1711Lok Tom: You mean they work hard and smart while the rest were slack and lay back living from the success of the PAST. Remember the famous fable? " The Hare and The Turtle". If you cannot realize who's the hare and whose the turtle that wins the race then let it be.
1712Ishan Bansal: Be like chino million cameras coming in years to follow kepp both immigrants and competition out
1713teebone 21: Everything can't be made in America. It would cost to much and half the country is poor
1714fred gillespie: rick santos - Where are all the men? - Off to Europe.
1715Alex Durdan: democratic policies for the past 2 decades... vote Bernie lol
1716Maximilian Jehuda Ewert: Little political incorrect mention that destroys anti-mondial trade (we need a new word) and debunks so-called globalism: Goods arrive by ship and plane in general between continent.Usually they are not transported by nuclear powered submarines nor are there solar panels moving transport planes.To uphold tourism, even the participants of the global warming conference in Nairobi came by planes that are driven by fusillade fuel.Petrol.Petrol is subventionated e.g. to support tourism.Interestingly a Holland onion makes tourism in Kameroun and a chinese underwear makes tourism in europe, so that the price of the fuel has less (or almost no) impact.So international trade depends on petrol-subvention, which stimulates petrol import.Who sales petrol.NOpe -not we jews, Israel has no petrol.Also not Nigeria, because petrol funding supports that raw oil gets rained outside of Nigeria and comes back more expensive.Think...don't answer - or you are racist towards an set of ideas...and it's not Trump, flight fuel is subventions long before --2016.To-- treble eagle and Nazi epoch.HItler shut down international stock market 1935, before some big money bonds based on other bonds that are based on other bonds and other bonds...that were invented.Without computer HItler simply jumped of the wagon, before german stockmarket fraud could be uncovered.Huge contract were done with for example Ford in exchange to produce a high demand on weaponry world wide - for armament.WWII was a business of HItler, who was -like Stalin- an illegal immigrant with criminal record in the country he became leader of.He was austrian, Stalin was Georgian.Stockmarket fraud, hostile fusion of small businesses into big state business, killing low income population and than as a distraction some chooses minorities (jews, roma, sinti etc.), banks forced to buy state bonds by kill squads - well, let's say those practices aren't globalism, or protectionism, nor capitalism and done by a socialist leadership under Stalin, and a national socialist leadership under Hitler, and a socialist in a national sense leadership (yeah, they changed simply the order of words) of Pol Pot and Ho Chi Min.Is there any other culture thinking of itself as the best of people (like in Surat 3 verse 111)?Jews are chosen for an obligation to uphold 613 duties based on 10 commandments.It's actually less special, if you get the opportunity to fail 613 times from the beginning, before counting something.Even Christians are born with inherited default of the "first sin".At this moment, don't think about petrol!!!
1717Lawney Malbrough: Widening the gap between the rich and the poor is the real reason for free trade.
1718Karl Whalls: Good, cheap, or fast. Pick 2
1719Jailton Nascimento: Excellent piece! I never understood the meaning of "Free Trade", since tariffs and protectionism always existed. This documentary tells the real truth about it.
1720le goog: I wish the producer of this documentary had made it clear that many products though made in China are made for American companies either through contract manufacturers or by their own plants in China and other foreign countries.
1721DW Documentary: Hi Balen, thx for your...unusual compliment! Stay tuned & enjoy!