International Business.

Presentations to be made in class on Friday, June 9

Each presentation must last a MAXIMUM of 3 minutes. It is more difficult to present well in 3
minutes than in 30 minutes.

Each presentation should provide a rough overall understanding, not myriad detailed facts.

The slides are not your presentation. Do not make fancy slides. Use slides that support your
presentation.

Work group Topic (usually an industry or an issue affected by the trade war)
Cambodia Introduction
Indonesia Automobile
Laos Semiconductors
Malaysia Solar
Myanmar Steel and aluminum
Philippines Unfair trade practices
Singapore Intellectual property
Thailand Results (Fajgelbaum (sections 1 & 7)

Sources

Introduction (all materials attached in the materials directory)

 Fajgelbaum (First two paragraphs and section 2 only),

 Trump-trade- war-timeline
 excerpt from Macdonald 2022 (all 3 sources attached).

Automobile

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_the_United_States [Especially last

two paragraphs of the introduction and the section on international trade -just 2 graphs.]
 https://www.ft.com/content/18709830-82c8-11e9-a7f0-77d3101896ec
 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/trump-s-trade-war-drives-some-auto-jobs-
china-n1237865
 https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/anatomy-flop-why-
trumps-us-china-phase-one-trade-deal-fell (Don’t get distracted. Focus on automobiles.
See Figure 3b and the paragraph beginning with the words “The US auto sector...”)
 https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2019/april/ties-bind-auto-industry-economy

Semiconductors:

 https://www.hitachi-hightech.com/global/products/device/semiconductor/history.html
  https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/semiconductors/our-insights/strategies-to-lead-in-
the-semiconductor-world [Only the section "Understanding the semiconductor
industry".]
 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/semiconductors/our-insights/the-semiconductor-
decade-a-trillion-dollar-industry
 https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/are-semiconductors-a-national-security-issue/ I attach a
PDF in the Materials directory because I was unable to confirm this link with Chrome,
Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera or Safari (MacOS 13.01). Tor does provide access. Edge
did access after a few hours… I guess the article irritates the American CSIS as well as
the big tech companies in the US. :D

Solar

 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/why-the-us-doesnt-really-make-
solar-panels-anymore-industrial-policy/619213/
 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/climate/solar-industry-imports.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-china-is-dominating-the-solar-industry/
 https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/the-solar-industry-provides-a-cautionary-
tale-for-americas-clean-energy-future/

Steel and aluminum

 https://theconversation.com/winners-and-losers-in-the-us-china-trade-war-119320
(Section “Steel wars” only)
 https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=118328 (Abstract only)
 https://econofact.org/steel-tariffs-and-u-s-jobs-revisited
 https://trendsresearch.org/insight/economic-impact-of-us-tariffs-on-steel-and-aluminum-
import/

Unfair trade practices

 https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/Section%20301%20FINAL.PDF (Mostly the section

summaries on pages 17-18; perhaps more detail on one of these sections)
 https://itif.org/publications/2021/07/26/false-promises-ii-continuing-gap-between-chinas-
wto- commitments-and-its/ (Just the section “Discriminatory Standards and Practices”.)

Intellectual property

 https://www.gardner-linn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/285/2015/10/Intellectual-
Property-Primer.pdf (JUST A REFERENCE; DO NOT READ)
 https://www.austriancenter.com/why-we-need-patents/ [However, remember Lazurus]
 https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/IF10033.pdf (just the section called "Background")
 https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2021/june/intellectual-property-rights-
become-key-part-trade-deals
  https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/Section%20301%20FINAL.PDF (Just the last two
bullets on page 18; perhaps more detail on one of these sections)

Results:

 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/08/07/more-pain-than-gain-how-
the-us-china-trade-war-hurt-america/
 https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/did-trumps-tariffs-benefit-american-
workers-and-national-security/
 https://unctad.org/webflyer/trade-and-trade-diversion-effects-united-states-tariffs-china
(Use the “highlight” summary to get started, but download the complete document and
read these sections: abstract, introduction, conclusion; try to understand at least one
example of a detailed effect in section 5.)
 https://www.nber.org/digest-202204/how-us-china-trade-war-affected-rest-world (No
need to read the actual paper. This description is sufficient)
 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/trade-war-6-charts-comparing-us-china-economies-
and-markets-in-2019.html
 https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/anatomy-flop-why-
trumps-us-china-phase-one-trade-deal-fell