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The US, which at the time needed annual capital imports of $800 billion in order to offset the near total cessation of private savings, received the lion’s share of this capital.
Imports of inexpensive Chinese products freed up capital and labor in the US for a dramatic expansion of the housing stock – which led to a sharp rise in the American standard of living.
Such companies bring technologically advanced imports and new management techniques that foster growth in domestic firms, while spurring industrial modernization.
Just as the dollar is often the unit of account in debt contracts, even when neither the borrower nor the lender is a US entity, the dollar’s share in invoicing for international trade is around 4.5 times America’s share of world imports, and three times its share of world exports.
The prices of some 93% of US imports are set in dollars.
A sharp 10% appreciation of the US dollar, for example, would reduce inflation for non-fuel imports by 4.4% cumulatively over the next 2-3 quarters, but would have only a negligible impact on inflation after that point.
If one accounts for consumer goods expenditure on imports, that 10% appreciation would lower inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), by just 0.5 percentage points in the first two quarters.
The estimated price pass-through for imported manufactured goods, which would better represent what enters the consumption bundle, is even lower than that for all non-fuel imports.
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, the increase in oil revenue heightened Iran’s reliance on imports, which the government encouraged in order to fight domestic inflation.
According to the Iranian Council of Trade, Mining, and Agriculture, the value of imported goods totaled more than $56 billion in 2010, meaning that roughly 70% of total oil revenue was spent on imports.
But as dollars became less accessible, while domestic production fell and imports rose, rial devaluation became inevitable.
A tariff-induced reduction in US imports can be offset in a number of ways.
Mozambique, for example, imports 60% of its wheat consumption, and Egypt imports 50% of its food supplies.
Fourth, many cash-strapped developing countries fear that social safety nets, once put in place, may become fiscally unsustainable, owing to a sudden loss of export revenue, poor harvests, or sharp increases in prices for food imports.
Whether the UK can maintain its access to the European market – which accounted for 45% of its exports and 53% of its imports in 2014 – remains an open question.
If the trade deficit is reduced by 3% of GDP between now and the end of the decade, the implied rise in exports and decline in imports would reduce output available for US consumption and investment by about 0.3% per year.
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.
During those years, the rise in the volume of net imports just balanced the effect of the dollar’s fall on the total cost of imports.
Imports (purchases) are seen as bad, and exports (sales) are considered good.
Protectionism merely reduces international trade overall, by making it harder for importers to buy what they need from exporters; it doesn’t change the balance of imports and exports.
More people would be connected, exporting countries could generate more revenue, and imports would become less expensive, more reliable, and cleaner.
Nigeria is the most likely source; another is imports of inexpensive Liquefied Natural Gas.
But the potential for a free-trade agreement isn’t the point; what matters is the end to the escalation of tit-for-tat measures, set in motion by Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on US imports of European steel.
A tariff on imports to the US has a much greater impact if Chinese exporters are the only ones to encounter it.
And a substantial share of China’s output goes abroad, with exports exceeding imports by enough to create a current-account surplus of more than $350 billion over the past year.
The best one can expect is that India continues to act at the margin – for example, by reducing dependence on Iranian oil while increasing imports from Saudi Arabia, already its largest supplier of crude.
Mexico tried to solve the problem by imposing a state-administered price ceiling for maize tortillas, combined with duty-free maize imports.
As they come out of their cyclical recessions, incomes will rise, leading to increased imports and even larger current-account deficits.
If Italy, Spain, and France were not part of the eurozone, they could allow their currencies to devalue; weaker exchange rates would increase exports and reduce imports, eliminating their current-account deficits.
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