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2024 Corden Public Lecture
Presented by Dr Mary Amiti, Head of Labor and Product Market Studies within the Monetary Policy Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Winners and Losers in the US-China Trade War
The U.S. applied tariffs of 10 to 50 percent on $362 billion of imports from China in 2018-2019. In response, China retaliated by imposing tariffs of similar magnitude on $107 billion dollars of U.S. exports. This type of behavior is commonly referred to as a “trade war’. The U.S.-China trade war resulted in a tripling of the average U.S. duty on imports, rising from 1.6 percent to 5.5.
The Trump administration’s main stated objectives of imposing such tariffs were to preserve value of U.S. intellectual property and to create jobs at home, with assurances that this would happen without any cost to U.S. firms or consumers.
In this lecture, Dr Amiti will examine the consequences of the U.S.-China trade war on the U.S. economy, and show that the Trump administration’s objectives were not met, instead, the trade-war imposed very large losses on U.S. consumers and firms.
Background: Corden Lecture Series
The Corden Public Lecture Series is named after Professor Max Corden, one of Australia’s most famous economists, Professor Corden has contributed to the field of economics, not only through his own work, but also through his long and extensive teaching career, during which he shaped the thinking of many of today’s great economists. Professor Corden is mostly known for his work on the theory of trade protection, including the development of the Dutch disease model of international trade. He has also been active in the fields of international monetary systems, macroeconomic policies of developing countries and Australian economics.
The lecture will be delivered in-person.
The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Engineering and IT and VCA Practice Lab celebrates their collaboration with the late Bardi Jawi artist Dr Ngardarb (Francine) Riches on an activation project at Melbourne Connect.
Partake in an insightful talk and guided tour of Francine’s artwork and supporting environmental graphics by VCA Practice Lab which tells the story of The Seven Sisters across the building. The Seven Sisters Dreamtime story is widely known by First Nations Peoples across Australia, and the story guided the collaboration, opening an understanding of storytelling as a framework for meaning making and knowledge sharing across disciplines and generations.
Curator and historian Dr Richard Gillespie from the faculty will speak on Indigenous engineering and knowledge within Melbourne Connect and the VCA Practice Lab team will discuss the design process of their environmental graphics, drawing reference from the Australian technological artefacts curated by Dr Gillespie, and the flora and fauna of the Kimberly Region that Francine grew up in.
Presented By: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne, VCA Practice Lab and Melbourne Connect.