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Right now, consumer goods account for only 2.3% of China’s imports, as they are subject to relatively high tariffs and value-added or sales taxes at customs, where procedures are complicated and slow.
Lowering the tariffs on consumer goods and simplifying customs procedures would improve consumer welfare while causing no significant harm to domestic industry.
Unlike exports, higher imports of consumer goods would thus help China combat inflation.
The Dollar Wars ReturnFaced by uncertain re-election prospects, and worried about job losses, US President George W. Bush has begun to blame other countries, sending his Treasury Secretary to demand that they raise their exchange rates in order to make foreign goods more expensive for American consumers.
Amid such uncertainty, our future depends on a UN that brings together the countries of the world not only to talk and debate, but also to agree and to act; that mobilizes civil society, business, philanthropists, and ordinary citizens to help the world’s governments solve current problems; and that delivers peace, development, human rights, and global public goods – in a word, hope – to people around the world every day.
Private companies are often well positioned to deliver goods more quickly and less expensively than public institutions, allowing the latter to focus their efforts elsewhere.
Sustainable growth can be achieved only if Italy’s economy regains its competitiveness, and within the eurozone there is only one way to accomplish this: by reducing the prices of its goods relative to those of its eurozone competitors.
Or else they can wait until the overhang of excess capacity diminishes, capital goods become obsolete, and the economy’s internal restorative forces work their gradual magic.
Sub-Saharan Africa has paths for diversified growth that many of the trailblazers did not: value-added agriculture and agro industry, the processing of mineral resources, petrochemical complexes, manufacturing of durable and consumer goods, tourism and entertainment, and an emerging information-technology sector.
In 2013, African goods and services accounted for just 16% of trade within the continent, and just over 3% of world trade.
Policymakers must encourage greater specialization; differentiated goods and services will add value and volume to trade.
Policymakers must make it easier to move goods across borders, by improving connectivity between countries and reducing bureaucratic hurdles and administrative costs.
For such a state, all imports would truly be foreign goods, and its trade defenses would consequently be directed only against foreign interests.
We have global supply lines in which goods are developed in one country, manufactured in another, and assembled in a third.
Sectors with a higher human capital content – electronic consumer goods, for example – have much higher R&D costs than the shoe sector, so manufacturing these goods on an assembly line in a low-cost country is probably not very costly in comparison to R&D and other intangible costs.
For more advanced goods, the EU value added (if the intangible part of the production process is in Europe) is quite high.
Imposing trade defense against such goods, even if legally warranted, is likely to create problems for globalized European companies.
Beyond disrupting existing economic sectors and activities, these technologies ended up producing new demand for the altogether new goods and services that they enabled.
The TPP would improve Japan’s trade prospects considerably, including in sensitive sectors like agriculture, where exports of fast-moving consumer goods like flowers and vegetables would benefit.
And, indeed, Russia’s state corporations are supposedly focused on advancing the public interest or creating public goods.
What China lacked was not demand for consumption goods, but a supply of high-quality financial assets.
Different products and categories enter the “hot zone” at different moments: those with low price points, such as snacks and beverages, typically take off relatively early; beauty products somewhat later; and luxury goods, such as branded fashion, later still.
Few, if any, goods are priced in Bitcoin, it is very rarely used in transactions, and the costs of doing so are prohibitive.
For example, segmented production for global supply chains has stimulated trade in intermediate goods and promoted foreign direct investment.
Africa still imports about one-third of the food, beverages, and similar processed goods it consumes, whereas the Association of Southeast Asian Nations imports about 20%, and South America’s Mercosur trade bloc imports just 10%.
Together with the fact that worldwide production of goods and services has been rising by more than 3%, this means that the trade-to-GDP ratio has been falling, in contrast to its steady upward march in earlier years.
Investment spending is trade-intensive, because countries rely disproportionately on a relatively small handful of producers, like Germany, for technologically sophisticated capital goods.
Its exports of goods comprise mainly fruits, olive oil, raw cotton, tobacco, and some refined petroleum products.
Germany, which many argue should spend more, imports just 0.2% of its goods from Greece.
Traditionally, “awash with liquidity” would suggest that the world’s central banks are expanding the money supply too much, causing too much money chasing too few goods.
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