40 Years After Plaza Accord, Global Trade Imbalances Still a Tough Issue for Nations to Address

By Akihiro Okada
18:09 JST,
October 10, 2025
Forty years after the Plaza Accord, the United States, which once led the creation of postwar international economic rules, has now become a country destabilizing the global economic order through U.S. President Donald Trump’s high tariff policies and other measures.
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