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The underlying message is that ancient India had all the answers, and thus that traditional and indigenous beliefs and practices must be fundamentally superior to imported modern ideas and lifestyles.
As for the general public, low- and middle-income households should oppose the BAT, which would drive up prices of the now-cheap imported goods that these groups currently consume, though Trump’s blue-collar constituents, particularly those who work in manufacturing, may support the measure.
Europe is blocking access to a class of goods – one that is vital to people’s survival – that can be imported much more cheaply than it can be produced at home.
(Soviet communism, for all its imported Western inputs, was rooted in the traditional idea of collective property.)
Moreover, the size of China’s trade surplus with the US has been systematically overstated, because the capital-intensive components of its labor-intensive manufacturing products are primarily imported from South Korea and Taiwan.
US consumer demand for daily necessities will not change simply by raising the costs of imported products.
On the other hand, the increased cost would be offset to some extent by lower-cost imported inputs, and foreign affiliates could expect to repatriate higher profits from sales in China in terms of their own currencies.
Another major difference today is that many firms are a part of global value chains, whereby goods are assembled in countries like Mexico or China from imported components, the most sophisticated of which often come from the US.
This is a real concern, as children in Bulgaria were paralyzed only last year due to polio imported from India.
After almost a quarter-century of so-called “liberal” economic policy, everything from imported goods to bank mortgages are still far more expensive than in the West.
But the question remains: What will these countries produce and export – besides primary products – to be able to afford the imported cellphones?
Whereas China exported $506 billion worth of merchandise to the United States in 2017, it imported just $130 billion of American goods.
The “Arab awakening” is about homegrown democratic change; it is therefore a repudiation of both US complicity with local autocrats and the American paradigm, so evident in Iraq, of “democracy” imported on the wings of F-16s.
Japan depends on fossil fuels imported from abroad (especially the Middle East), so it has particularly strong incentive to minimize energy use.
To be sure, for a country that depends on imported energy, any savings are valuable.
But CPI targeting instead tells the central bank to tighten policy in response to an increase in the world price of imported commodities – exactly the opposite of accommodating the adverse shift in the terms of trade.
The pro-Brexit camp also positions itself as fighting to protect Britain from an uncontrollable influx of immigrants, from imported terrorism, and from laws formulated by foreigners who lack sufficient understanding and appreciation of British culture.
Ordinarily, a large surplus puts upward pressure on the country’s currency – making its exports less competitive and boosting demand for imported goods and services.
Trump’s Protectionist Rube Goldberg MachineWASHINGTON, DC – To avoid the Trump administration’s 25% tariff on imported steel, some countries have agreed to accept export quotas on 59 varieties of steel products.
That should surely provide more than enough time for Japanese beef ranchers to prepare themselves for foreign competition (of the 870,000 tons of beef imported annually, 520,000 tons come from Australia, the US, and New Zealand).
Delivering, say, advanced imported technologies that companies might not be able to afford on their own would be a powerful inducement for them to contribute to upgrading the skills of the local labor force.
In 2005, only 15 countries imported LNG; today, that number has tripled.
The imposition of imported institutions often creates psychological and social mismatches that tend to lead to poor outcomes.
They are not imported and cannot be fixed merely by changing the dollar's value.
This is partly because the final price of an imported good reflects numerous costs such as distribution and marketing, which are unaffected by the exchange rate.
Import tariffs for cars will be raised from their current 25% - the highest tariff - to a prohibitive 70% for imported cars older then seven years, which compete with new Russian cars.
Energy Independence in an Interdependent WorldCAMBRIDGE – When President Richard Nixon proclaimed in the early 1970’s that he wanted to secure national energy independence, the United States imported a quarter of its oil.
Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum left the US and Canada deeply divided at the Quebec summit, and their split over trade is certain to have much broader political implications.
The dilemma is that any depreciation of sterling increases the level of imported inflation that is not offset by spare capacity in the economy.
Worse still, if Bank of England Governor Mervyn King is right that above-target inflation is due to imported inflation, raising interest rates has little impact unless it induces sterling appreciation, which would reduce the cost of imports.
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