imf members set aside trade split
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IMF members set aside trade split

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IMF chief Christine Lagarde
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) members on Saturday dropped a pledge to fight protectionism amid a split over trade policy and turned their attention to another looming threat to global economic integration: The first round of France’s presidential election.
“There was a clear recognition in the room that we have probably moved from high financial and economic risks to more geopolitical risks,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told a news conference.
Lagarde, a former French finance minister who has warned that a Le Pen presidency could lead to political and economic upheaval, added that a policy shift from “growth momentum to more sharing and inclusive growth” was now needed.
A communique from the IMF’s steering committee on Saturday dropped an anti-protectionism pledge, adopting language that the Trump administration sought last month in Germany as it develops its strategy to reduce US trade deficits.
Earlier in the week, the IMF had warned that protectionist policies that restrict trade could choke off improving global growth.
Instead, the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) statement pledged that members would “work together” to reduce global trade and current account imbalances “through appropriate policies.”
“We are working to strengthen the contribution of trade to our economies,” the IMFC said, repeating language adopted by the G-20 nations last month in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Mexican central bank chief Agustin Carstens, the IMFC chair, described protectionism as a “relative term” and “ambiguous,” and said it had been replaced in the communique with something more useful.
“There is no country that does not have any proviso or restriction on trade,” Carstens said in a news conference. “Instead of dwelling on what that concept means, we managed to put it in a more positive, more constructive framework.”
The French election presents free-trade advocates with a third potential blow in less than a year after Britain’s vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump’s election on a platform to restrict imports and protect US jobs.

Source: Arab News

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