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Similarly, it led Bush to his declared objective of cutting imports from the region by 75% over the next two decades.
The US uses about 21 million barrels of oil a day, and imports about 2.5 million of it from the Persian Gulf.
Even before new technologies produce that amount of fuel, the US could switch to imports from Nigeria, Venezuela, and other countries.
What matters is the total amount of oil a country imports, not where it comes from.
Even if he cuts imports from the Middle East, America will not enjoy energy security unless it curbs its overall thirst for oil.
But more imports and a lower surplus would also drive up interest rates, which is bad for highly indebted countries.
While some US politicians call for tariffs against Mexico, the National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that about 40% of the value of Mexican imports to the US is actually added within the US itself.
Unlike the West, Russia imports from China not so much consumer goods as engineering products.
Moreover, successful monetary stimulus would raise income through domestic channels, thereby boosting imports, so the net effect on the trade balance could go either way.
High Tariffs on Chinese Imports Would Weaken AmericaBEIJING – Until the 1970s, the United States’ foreign trade was largely balanced.
Because the dollar is no longer pegged to gold and is an international reserve currency, the US can sustain its trade deficit by printing more dollars to support imports.
As its wage levels rose, the US began importing consumer goods from Japan; then it shifted to importing these goods from the four “Asian tigers” – Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan – before finally sourcing most of these imports from China.
This implies that US consumers will bear the costs of the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports.
However, because prices of goods from these economies are higher, a shift in US imports would cut the bilateral deficit with China, but cause its deficits with these countries to rise.
The politically motivated imposition of high US tariffs on imports from China would fly in the face of reciprocity, contradict the win-win principle of trade, and jeopardize the interests of US voters.
China can take some measures to fight back, such as raising tariffs on imports of selected US products; but it should prevent trade disputes from escalating into a trade war.
Whereas the US imports tens of thousands of Chinese products, China imports a narrow range of products from the US, such as soybeans, corn, computer chips, and aircraft.
China’s imposition of higher tariffs on imports from the US would thus have a bigger impact on US producers than vice versa.
But the fact that all these payoffs are made means that shops are opening, imports are coming , and joint ventures are starting at an unprecedented pace.
There would be much less corruption if say, local government officials did not have the right to approve the opening of shops, if customs officials could not keep imports at the border for months, and if joints ventures did not require numerous approvals.
Now it hints that it may resume enrichment, and recent press reports about the imports from Pakistan suggest Iran failed to disclose everything to the IAEA.
New tariffs that made imports more costly and that shifted demand toward domestic goods would require offsetting effects in a near-full-employment economy in order to shift demand back to foreign sources.
Working in the other direction is the fact that some of the dollar-supportive measures that observers expected Trump to adopt, such as tariffs on steel imports, are now coming, like it or not.
The initial waves of US tariffs on Chinese imports are aimed mainly at intermediate goods that are processed by low-cost China-centric GVCs.
These tariffs will raise the prices of about half of Chinese goods imports, which totaled $506 billion in 2017, by 10% today and 25% in 2019.
Moreover, a looser fiscal policy would stimulate German domestic demand, resulting in higher imports and a smaller current-account surplus.
And, finally, because Germany’s starting fiscal position is fundamentally strong, an increase in German imports would have positive spillover effects for the region.
Similarly, as large mining projects stalled, India had to resort to higher imports of coal and scrap iron, while its exports of iron ore dwindled.
An increase in gold imports placed further pressure on the current-account balance.
Ironically, had they bought Apple shares, rather than a commodity (no matter how fungible, liquid, and investible it is), their purchases would have been treated as a foreign investment rather than as imports that add to the external deficit.
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