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More broadly, given Europe’s slide into recession and only a slow rise in world trade volume, renewed growth and stronger import demand in Japan would support global recovery.
To be sure, there has been the normal inflation associated with large increases in import prices that always follow large devaluations, but rather than setting off a spiral of price increases, inflation rates appear to be dampening.
Import substitution takes place before your eyes: a clothing store that last year sold only imported apparel, now sells only domestically produced goods.
For we often sought to import tried and tested Western practices -- private property, the free market, competition, strict observance of human rights, the creation of civil society, representative democracy -- in diluted forms that would somehow help us maintain elements of Socialism.
Compensating for the expected diminution of guest workers on the global stage is a likely increase in outsourcing, which provides an alternative and potentially more attractive way to import labor services when globalization is tainted by terrorism.
The third mistake was to raise import duties, especially for imported cars.
Street protests against the import duties became the first serious popular uprising that Russia has seen in many years.
In particular, we believe that an international agreement on trade facilitation is the right step, as it would reduce export and import costs and restore momentum to global trade liberalization.
Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.
Moreover, one can easily imagine that import demand would soar further if the US and the European Union lifted their bans on exports of high-tech products to China.
The result is the March trade deficit, caused mainly by exceptionally high annual import growth (65%) coupled with relatively low export growth, which reached a nominally impressive 24% only because of the sharp decline recorded in the base period.
But, in contrast to other economies on the eurozone periphery, this improvement was achieved entirely through import compression.
As more countries become wary of the BRI, they will borrow and import less from China.
But this would be ethically wrong, because developed nations have largely destroyed their own primary forests and ecosystems on the path to industrial development, and continue to import large quantities of raw material extracted in developing countries.
With the import tariffs on steel just announced, the US will at least obtain some revenue.
For example, a generalized import tariff of 25% on steel products could yield almost $4 billion per year, even if imports were to fall by almost half (to $16 billion).
But the French still flock to McDonald’s and to theatres playing American movies, despite limits on their import.
Egypt’s budget deficit reached 10% of GDP, while its foreign-exchange reserves have fallen to $15 billion – barely enough to cover the country’s import bill for the next three months.
Specifically, an appreciating dollar improves the price competitiveness of European and Japanese companies in the US and other markets, while moderating some of the structural deflationary pressure in the lagging economies by causing import prices to rise.
Because Americans spend more than they produce, they must import more than they export.
If these countries liberalize their trade regimes, they will tend to import more US goods that compete with their own industries.
As exports rise, so will the foreign-exchange earnings that pay for the higher import bill.
Suppose, conversely, that the US imposes new import barriers in response to its current-account deficit.
These import barriers would pull workers and capital into import-competing sectors and away from export sectors, roughly leaving the US trade balance unchanged while lowering national income and average living standards.
The trade deficit could fall if the import barriers were in the form of trade taxes that lowered the budget deficit (thereby raising government saving) but that effect would work through the budget, not through trade policy per se.
But before that can happen, African countries need to agree on a common schedule for lowering their import barriers.
Nor do import tariffs help those left unemployed by the bankruptcy of Blockbuster Video, Borders Books, CompUSA, Circuit City, Payless, or Virgin Megastores.
Trump announced that he was doubling US import tariffs on Turkish aluminum and steel, to 20% and 50%, respectively.
But with the doubling of US import tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum, the lira plummeted by another 12% in a single day.
Despite all the rhetoric about "old" and "new" Europe, at the end of the Cold War opinion surveys showed that two-thirds of Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, and Bulgarians perceived the US as a good influence on their respective countries, but fewer than a quarter wanted to import American economic models.
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