I guess these are the services she is talking about:
“The top services were in professional and management services, intellectual property, travel and education.”
If this is not part of the standard way to calculate trade, I don’t see the point in starting now.
If one talks of the services industry, it includes: advertising, accounting, cleaning, funerals, education, entertainment, fashion, healthcare, nursing, insurance, IT services, financial and loan services, media, investigative services, law, online services, sex industry, sports business services, travel, tourism, visual arts, wedding industry, language training industry, etc.
The problem she has in bringing this up...is that there are no tariffs in this type of industry...there are visa-control numbers. Virtually every nation that I know of (especially Europe)...requires you to have a work-visa and there are various rules to this.
If you were to open up a MAJOR bucket of worms, just go and include this industry into the chatter, and ask how ‘fairness’ would be measured and monitored.
Trump’s comeback on this would probably be: ...so the German chancellor wants to German hookers, American actors, and Mexican cleaning ladies into the trade talks?
How about we add in other services. Such in a permanent army? How much does the security we provide Germany cost each year?