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Moreover, in the past, southern African countries put their faith in protectionism and import substitution policies.
Import tariffs tend to be higher in developing countries, making it more difficult to gain access to them.
Suddenly, good Russian products are everywhere, while Moscow used to import 80% of the goods it consumed daily.
In addition to this difference in the relative magnitude of imports, the benign price effect of low-cost import competition is much larger in Germany’s competitive retail landscape than in the more traditional, and uncompetitive, retail systems of Italy or Greece.
Among the depicted countries, a larger Chinese import share was clearly associated with a much higher inflation rate.
They will remain an important source of import demand, especially for high technology and industrial goods.
Lacking in domestic savings and wanting to grow, the US must import surplus savings from abroad, and run massive current-account deficits to attract the foreign capital.
On the contrary, through its low tariffs and general lack of import restrictions, the US has turned itself into an international shopping theme park.
And this is not to mention emerging market politicians’ failure to grasp that unilaterally reducing their excessive import restrictions would be a good idea even if rich countries sat on their hands.
Outside Africa, the people who will suffer the most are those in countries like Brazil, India, China, and Mexico, whose leaders rightly took on rich-country farm subsidies, but wrongly failed to recognize the profound costs of the developing world’s own import restrictions.
When Americans finally decide to go on an import diet, as they will someday, the world’s hypocrisy over the failed global trade talks will become apparent to all.
These are just a few examples of the vast misuse of the country’s resources, owing to the marked preference of Senegal’s elite to use import licenses to build up their own fortunes rather than develop import-substitution industries.
But any import boom creates a misleading impression of the local economy’s productive capacity.
An import boom thus also leads to higher measured GDP growth.
But the opposite is also true: when an import boom ends, measured GDP must drop considerably, because much less intermediation is needed.
The import boom in the United States was much smaller than that on the EU periphery, but the recent downward revision of US GDP can be seen through the same lens.
An import boom creates only the illusion of economic strength.
Post-unification Germany experienced an import and construction boom that was similar to that of the EU periphery.
The country’s poor immediately hit the streets, already angry because their corrupt and incompetent government has been unable to repair state-owned refineries, thereby forcing Africa’s largest oil producer to import petroleum products.
The following propositions garnered support from at least 90% of economists: import tariffs and quotas reduce general economic welfare; rent controls reduce the supply of housing; floating exchange rates provide an effective international monetary system; the US should not restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries; and fiscal policy stimulates the economy when there is less than full employment.
Phasing out tariffs and import quotas for poor countries’ exports – and phasing out subsidies for their own producers of agricultural products – would have a dramatic effect on the lives of hundreds of millions of people in Africa and elsewhere.
Indeed, just as it is often mutually beneficial to import computers from China, IT services from India, and investment-banking services from Americans, it can also make sense to import Filipino care workers, Congolese cleaners, and Brazilian bar staff.
Some argue that gas might be a better alternative to hydro or coal, but for countries that must import much of their gas the benefits of a stable and reliable source of cheap fuel in the form of coal present a very strong counter-argument to the capital costs of a gas plant.
Antioxidants, which are believed to help protect us against both cancer and heart disease, are one such element that must import into our bodies.
In 2014, the price of oil fell sharply, making the previous import level unsustainable and triggering a much deeper collapse.
The World Trade Organization recently reported that in response to US tariffs, G20 countries have imposed around 40 new import restrictions, affecting $481 billion in global trade – a sixfold increase from the year before.
The EU currently imports half of its energy supplies – in 20 years, the import share will be 70%.
And China had abruptly devalued the renminbi, potentially contributing to lower import prices – and therefore lower inflation – for the US.
China’s import demand is slowing in line with its economic structure’s shift away from industry and toward services and household consumption.
Even more relevant, the decline of the renminbi and other currencies in the past year has had very little impact on US import prices, because Chinese and other exporters price their goods in dollars and do not adjust them when the exchange rate changes.
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