Should we be concerned about global protectionism coming in after Trump’s inauguration?


Yes, absolutely. This is a tendency that we cannot afford in a country with volumes of trade at stake. This can also contaminate other countries with a reaction of whether they should do the same thing, then it will be global and we do not even know the size it will become. The entire world has been working in recent years for an open global market and now we are going in the opposite direction.


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