On The System Of United States Policies For Trade In Goods With Major Industrial Competitiveness

Trade policies can decide tariff policies, non-tariff policies, export and import policies and country policies. Trade policy has significant influence on the competitiveness of various industries. United States has developed from an underdeveloped colony into today's big trade country. Trade policy has played an important role in its history.Agriculture Dept. has got the most subsidies. U.S. has a series of programmes supporting exports of agriculture products. In the process of framing and executing the supporting policies, government behaviour has shown its important function by coalescing into market and agricultural associations. U.S. agricultural trade policy has great effects. It has enhanced export and at the same time, helped the nation's agricultural development.For the textile industry part, although U.S. has tried to restrict the imports of textile products through tariff, quota and all kinds of safeguards policies, it makes little difference. The main reason is because of the relatively cheap labour force in developing countries.Neither does the restriction policies in steel area. Trade policies in steel haven't enhance the competitiveness of steel in international market. On the contrary, a great deal of steel enterprises went bankruptcy.For the textile and steel industries, though various trade restriction policies have heightened the threshold of export to U.S. and set great impediment, they haven't actually increased the industrial competitiveness of textile and steel. This kind of trade policy is destined to be ineffective in the long-run. If enterprises just rely on the subsidies or protection from government rather than struggle to grow competitive, their only fate will be downfall.