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Like China and Germany, Britain exports much more to America than it imports from the US.
With austerity, imports have crashed everywhere in the periphery, while exports – helped by falling labor costs – are increasing (except in Greece).
By contrast, America maintained a trade embargo against Vietnam until 1994, established diplomatic relations only in 1995, and did not provide most-favored nation treatment to Vietnamese imports for years after that.
And, while the US has many engineers of its own (and imports others, despite restrictive immigration policies), many other countries do not, exacerbating the challenges smaller start-ups there face in getting qualified people.
The consumer price index dropped to 0.8%; the producer price index fell by 4.3%; exports contracted by 3.3%; imports were down by 19.9%; and growth of broad money (M2) slowed by 1.4%.
To offset this, Paul Ryan, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, has proposed adding a tax on net imports (imports minus exports).
Because net imports lead to job destruction, they should be discouraged.
At the same time, so long as US net imports are as high as they are now, the tax would raise enormous revenues.
If Trump really did keep his campaign promises to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement and impose tariffs on many Chinese imports, he could tip the world economy from subpar growth to outright depression.
But a pragmatic version of “America first,” focused on achieving re-election in 2020, is more likely to mean some largely symbolic measures (such as antidumping tariffs on some Chinese steel imports) and abandonment of further trade liberalization initiatives such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Those price declines would reduce incomes and spending in other countries, with the impact spread globally through reduced imports and exports.
Although growing, China’s trade with Latin America and the Caribbean remains small, representing less than 2% of both exports and imports in 2002.
Brazil and Argentina have, for example, significantly increased agricultural exports to China, while Central America and Mexico have seen their imports from China increase dramatically.
This is important because it illustrates the dissimilar regional impact that trade with China has on Latin America and the Carribean, owing to the export of South America’s basic goods, coupled with the growth of Chinese imports into Mexico.
In the 10 years between 1993 and 2003, China’s and Hong Kong’s exports to Mexico rose from 1.12% of total Mexican imports to 5.8%.
Even as China raises tariffs on US imports, it is lowering tariffs for other countries, in order to fulfill its promise to increase overall imports and bolster domestic consumption.
As a result Argentina, once a thriving gas exporter, had to seek imports to overcome domestic shortages.
With imports still growing strongly and commodity prices beginning to fall as a result of the world slowdown, Argentina’s large trade surplus is disappearing quickly.
With limited, if any, hard-currency (US dollar or gold) reserves on hand, and little prospect for acquiring dollars through export earnings, European economies attempted to shrink their current-account deficits by compressing imports from other (mostly) European countries.
The expectation was that import compression would permit them to accumulate sufficient dollars to purchase capital imports from the US.
Of far greater urgency is that dollar shortages have become food shortages in countries such as Egypt and Venezuela, as well as much of Sub-Saharan Africa, which rely heavily on food imports.
First, sea-borne trade routes, which account for nearly 85% of the European Union’s total exports and imports, must be kept free and safe.
When US President Donald Trump’s administration imposes tariffs on China, it is raising the cost of imports that domestic small businesses desperately need to keep operating.
Services were the first to recover after the 2008 financial crisis; and, as of late 2017, the UK’s services exports were roughly double its services imports.
The US announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, while ostensibly aimed at China, was also the latest signal to Europe that the Trump administration’s “America First” rhetoric must be taken seriously.
Imports could fall, as they did during the crisis, but that was due to declining demand, not to a shift in demand in favor of domestic producers.
If growth in the trade sector boosts that of domestic non-trade sectors, then a fixed exchange rate will not put pressure on the external balance of payments as demand for imports rises.
He had argued that prevailing economic conditions implied that wider budget deficits would result in higher interest rates and a stronger dollar, making it harder for US manufacturers to compete with imports.
Countries like to keep their reserves growing in tandem with growth in imports and other foreign liabilities.
A country with reserves of the new global money could exchange it for hard currencies to sustain needed food imports or other goods.
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