Professor Jorge Sá (PhD Columbia University; MBA Drucker University; Jean Monnet Chair) just gave a talk on:
“Trade Wars as opportunities: Finding the best niches for deals”
This conference had two distinctive characteristics:
- First: it focused on trade wars as an opportunity, not a risk; and
- Second: for firms in detail: business deals.
Through a method developed by Jorge Sá, companies not only achieve higher profitability, but also contribute to freedom in world trade, thus offsetting the potential negative consequences of trade wars both on commerce and liberty.
The output of this conference’s methodology was a list with the name of the main importers / potential clients, niche by niche, country by country, regarding the best 10/15 opportunities for a company to focus on and the quantitative value of each opportunity.
And the focus was on five types of trade wars in the world at large:
- First: Trade wars between our economic block and another one (whatever it be);
- Second: Trade wars between other blocks (e.g. Brazil-Argentina, India-China escalation in several areas, Japan-South Korea semiconductors dispute, South Africa-Brazil, Australia-China steel and agricultural wars, etc.). Here our economic block is not involved;
- Third: Autarkies, that is a block exiting (even if partially) from the world market (e.g. India maintains high tariffs on various agricultural and industrial products, as well as complex licensing and regulatory requirements, and Philippines at present decouples part of its economy from the world by imposing high duties and restrictions on products like sugar, corn and automobiles);
- Fourth: Pariah states (subject to sanctions which usually include a ban – total or partial – on exports and imports, such as in the cases of Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Myanmar and Belarus, among others);
- Fifth: Our economic block fortress (if in the future our economic block was to decide at a greater or lesser extent to decouple part of its economy from world markets).
The talk was an expansion of both Professor Sá book “Trade Wars as Opportunities” and an academic article published in a blind referred/Scopus review, which used Brexit as an example (book cover, index and back cover below):
Check Professor Sá short bio at: https://www.vasconcellosesa.com/jorge-sa/
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