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These higher wage costs are not showing up yet in overall inflation because of the countervailing impact of energy prices and import costs.
And, before the Iran shock had been absorbed, the US threatened a 25% import tariff on cars, which would shave at least $5 billion annually from German exporters’ revenues.
Nor should we forget Trump’s pledge to bring millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs back to the US by imposing import tariffs and canceling trade agreements.
Congress has authorized the President to impose import duties on Chinese products if China remains unwilling to increase the value of its currency substantially against the dollar.
Indeed, the Fed decided to delay raising interest rates partly because US policymakers expect dollar appreciation, by lowering import prices, to undermine their ability to meet their 2% inflation target.
In this environment, the pass-through of dollar movements into non-fuel US import prices is one of the lowest in the world, in both the short term (one quarter out) and the longer term (two years out), for three key reasons.
Second, because most exporters also import intermediate inputs that are priced in dollars, exchange-rate fluctuations have a limited impact on their costs and thus on their incentive to change dollar prices.
What little impact import price shocks have on US inflation is highly transitory, with most of the effect tapering off after just two quarters.
And that is likely to be an upper bound, because it assumes that US retailers will pass through to consumers the full amount of any increase in import prices.
Because the dollar prices of most of these countries’ imports are not very responsive to exchange-rate movements, the pass-through of those movements into import prices denominated in their home currencies is close to 100%.
Second, Macri’s government reduced taxes on commodity exports, which had been important to Kirchner’s administration, and removed a number of import controls.
But this rather innocuous meeting did not go off without problems as, until the very last moment, the customs office at Moscow's international airport refused to approve the import of electronic equipment for the televised transmission.
The policies of central planning, dirigisme , and import substitution, which many newly independent countries adopted in the 1950's and 1960's, could be labeled as the ideas of communists, Fabian socialists, and nationalists, not trained economists.
Governments, they believe, are run by crooks, so tie their hands; bureaucrats are beholden to rent-seeking private agents, so ensure non-discretion and apply uniform taxes and incentives; domestic political systems cannot be trusted, so import laws and institutions from abroad; external influences are always more benign than domestic ones, so ensure maximum openness to international trade and investment; reformers have a limited "honeymoon period," so implement reforms fast.
Moreover, Trump has launched a trade war by imposing import tariffs on America’s major trading partners.
Exchange-rate flexibility is not particularly useful when a country has no export capacity, and establishing import or foreign-exchange controls would only generate corruption and rent-seeking.
If the real trade-weighted value of the dollar falls by 25% over the coming decade, and the full effect of that dollar decline is reflected in import prices, the increased cost of imports would reduce the growth of US real incomes by about 0.4% a year.
These concerns are of little import for today’s populists and demagogues, who count on the average citizen’s knee-jerk approval of the idea of "free" education.
Some have no particular resources and build thermal power plants or import expensive liquid fuels to meet their needs.
Historically, the US has been able to conclude trade agreements only when a coalition of actors that would benefit from better export opportunities secured more votes than those who were vulnerable to import competition.
The increase in America’s oil import bill over the past year alone is estimated to be some $75 billion.
Stronger growth in high-income economies will also create opportunities for developing countries – for example, through increased import demand and new sources of investment.
A stronger renminbi would reduce the import bill, including prices for oil and other production inputs, while making Chinese goods more expensive for foreign buyers and foreign goods more attractive to Chinese consumers.
Is Europe Ready for a Trade War?PARIS – US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum is surprising neither for its expression of protectionist ideology nor for its sheer economic irrationality.
The European response to Trump’s import tariffs should thus be twofold.
The US would press the Nuclear Supplier Group to issue a waiver to Pakistan, as it has already done for India, so that Pakistan could import the technology, parts, and components needed to build nuclear power plants.
America’s trading partners will have little choice but to respond to US import restrictions by imposing their own tariffs on US exports.
Trump has already shown his willingness to target firms’ foreign operations with the threat of import levies, public accusations of price gouging, and immigration restrictions (which make it harder to attract talent).
But water is extremely difficult – and prohibitively expensive – to import.
Moreover, Trump’s decision to subject the EU (as well as other US allies such as Canada and Mexico) to import tariffs on steel and aluminum has unified European leaders in outrage and disgust.
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