increase import tariff to payoff the medicare?

   I don’t think it is a long-term efficient plan to higher import tariff pay for medicare and get the U.S. out of debt. Because when America increases certain products import tariff, the selling price of product will increase and even though it maybe will bring some profit for the local producer of that certain products, it is not good for customers. Customers need to pay more to buy what they used to get. Also it will affect the trading relationship between two countries, because if America increases some countries’ import tariff for a long time, they will increase their import tariff that direct against to American’s products.

   On the other hand, America could slightly increase the import tariff for some certain products of certain countries, but it shouldn’t be last so long. Increasing the import tariff it will accelerate customers to buy the local producers’ products and improve the local economy to payoff the debt. For Medicare problem, American government should come out some active policies, for example they need to improve the management of the health insurance program for the elderly and disabled people. In addition, the government may try to talk to the drug makers or some healthcare providers to reduce the expense of Medicare.

unavoidable trading barrier between China and Japan

   The world is becoming flat and different countries are more willing to expand their business in a new area. Countries share resources and benefit people for their countries, but there still have some trade barriers that is hard to avoid. For example, war on terror, questions left over by history, nature disaster.

   There is typical example like China and Japan. Right now China is the biggest trading partner of Japan. Even though these years both countries are trying to build friendly cooperation relationship on international business, this relationship is really frail and maybe it just stay on the surface level. It is easy to break when some political events happen, like Japanese politics visit yasukuni shrine，Japanese textbook deny start the aggression war against China during 1930s-1940s, and territorial issues etc. There is no certain period time or how often it will happen once, it just because of the relationship of these two countries is so sensitive especially related to some historical issues. Sometimes those trade barriers were created unintentionally, but just because it is too sencitive, therefore maybe it is just a piece of flame can cause big fire.

     It is hard for Chinese people to forget that there were 300,000 Chinese people killed by invading Japanese troops in the Nanjing Massacre.Also during that war Japanese army use Chinese people to do poison gas test. No one can change the history fact. Under the global economy environment, the questions left over by historical issue are an unavoidably trading barriers between two countries.