Credit Suisse did the research and reported the chart+numbers.
From Global Trade Alert's website: 'Global Trade Alert provides real-time information on <i>state measures</i> taken during the current global downturn that are likely to affect foreign commerce.' It is not a list of petitions by companies.
Here's the original report from CS: https://doc.research-and-analytics.csfb.com/docView?document... appears on page 20)
And Trump is all about protectionism. If America wasn't the most protectionist country before, it certainly will be very soon.
It's also widely regarded as one of the least corrupt nations. [2] Transparency and low-corruption are two things that very frequently go hand-in-hand.
[1] http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/transparency-full-...
"Denmark [the US came in #11] is the most transparent country, according to more than 8,000 informed elites from four different regions who filled out surveys for the 2016 Best Countries rankings. The rankings, formed in partnership with brand strategy firm BAV Consulting and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, aim to gauge global perceptions of the world's biggest economies in terms of specific attributes associated with countries."
On corruption the US is listed at #16 by transparency international, ahead of France and Japan, but behind Australia and the UK:
Mentioning Trump is just FUD and indirection. You can mention him if he's elected and if he manages to enact protectionist policies.
You are attacking a straw man. Find me another data source that refutes GTA and Credit Suisse.
Peace.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
Rallying the crowd for up-votes (even for another user's post) falls pretty much in the same ballpark.
The fact that America, with its very transparent political/legislative/corporate-grievances system would be recorded more often by this aggregator, is not surprising. In other words, this aggregator is going to be biased to record more trade-related events coming from more transparent nations that have more corporations located inside of them, and whose corporations will tend to try to resolve their trade disputes in the courts.
But I guess you couldn't be bothered to investigate the numbers when you could just cite BusinessInsider.