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For starters, by increasing import prices and bolstering export sectors, a weaker renminbi would undermine the Chinese government’s goal of shifting away from export-led growth and toward a model based on higher domestic consumption.
Imposing import tariffs to shore up the old goods-producing industries ignores the dynamics of growth and does nothing to help sunrise sectors.
Instead of eliminating this system, as expected, Modi’s government has augmented subsidies for sugar exports to support higher output, raised import duties on sugar to discourage foreign competition, and increased the percentage of sugar-based ethanol that must be blended with petrol.
Israel’s government has denied that people are starving and has relaxed its import restriction regime.
With the changes in the import controls on Gaza – there is now a list of what cannot be taken in, rather than of what can – more goods should arrive.
The Phony US-China TruceBEIJING – On December 1 in Buenos Aires, US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed on a 90-day moratorium on increases in import tariffs to provide a window for negotiations.
Similarly, whereas the official White House statement asserts that China will purchase “very substantial” farm, energy, and industrial exports from the US, China’s statement says only that it will import more US goods.
Western governments aim to circumvent Russia’s pipelines and import some oil and gas directly.
Its leader rails against foreigners, erects various import barriers, and pushes for low interest rates and lots of cheap credit for favored sectors.
Such explanations included government intervention or a new sort of industrial organization, and unfair patent infringements by the new producers who copied products and then blocked off their own markets from import competition.
As a result, Cuba will continue to import a lot of food, most of it at a price that the population cannot afford.
While export expansion delivered growth in this century, import substitution and inward foreign direct investment (FDI) will lead to increasing productivity in Japan in the next.
As import barriers fall and as Japan's distribution systems become more transparent, converging to OECD standards, the import share of Japan's GDP will rise, improving domestic productivity.
Competitive pressure from such investment, like import competition, will improve productivity.
Before announcing import tariffs on more than 1,300 types of Chinese-made goods worth around $60 billion per year, in early March Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum, which he justified on the basis of national security.
Worse still, other countries whose currencies have appreciated against the renminbi can look forward to a Chinese import invasion.
MCC’s investment, which leveraged public and private funds, aimed to alleviate chronic freight bottlenecks in the port by doubling its capacity to import and export cargo.
No import tariff or border wall can do that.
An escalating trade war, with each side erecting symmetric import barriers, would fuel inflationary pressure in the US, potentially driving the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates higher and faster than it would otherwise.
The more competitive exchange rate raised the profits of Japanese exporters, but not their output, while the weaker yen also raised import prices, reducing the real incomes of most Japanese households.
Despite the violence, commercial activity has also risen, because Iraqis are now free to import the equipment and goods they need to build homes, run stores, and operate trucking companies.
Rather than deflating the economy, Nixon took America off the gold standard in 1971 and imposed wage, price, and import controls, proclaiming bluntly, “I am now a Keynesian in economics.”
After all, liberalism in Eastern Europe is a Western import.
For example, the cotton textile industry that developed in Bombay between 1857 and 1947 operated with no employment restrictions, complete security of capital, a stable and efficient legal system, no import or export controls, freedom of entry by entrepreneurs from around the world, and free access to the British market.
In this case, we should seek domestic remedies, as with safeguards against import surges.
Trump is playing with fire when he threatens to impose import tariffs in order to “make American great again.”
The speculative uncertainties associated with a “Grexit” might well threaten other eurozone economies (for example, Cyprus and Portugal), while Greece, with a devalued drachma, would find it painfully expensive to import the capital goods it needs to generate a broad base of high-wage jobs.
Previous governments sought to avoid difficult policy choices and obfuscate fundamental issues by implementing inefficient controls that grossly misallocated resources and undermined Argentina’s ability to generate the foreign-exchange earnings needed to cover its import bill, resulting in domestic shortages.
The WTO already has a safeguard system to protect firms from import surges.
Turkish policymakers see nuclear power as an almost indispensable tool for enhancing energy security and reducing the import bill.
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