Sentences with phrase «bilateral trade imbalances»

A country's trade balance consisted of the sum of all its various bilateral trade imbalances, and net flows of capital were primarily driven by trade finance.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A U.S. trade delegation wants China to cut a bilateral trade imbalance immediately and to stop subsidizing advanced technology, a Wall Street Journal reporter wrote on Twitter on Friday, citing a document issued to the Chinese before talks.

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WASHINGTON, April 21 - A multilateral framework like the Trans - Pacific Partnership pact works better in fixing trade imbalances than a bilateral deal, IMF Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa said in an endorsement of Japan's calls for Washington to rejoin TPP.

Bilateral trade has always been a pretty suspect information source for anyone trying to understand how trade imbalances are generated, but by now the bilateral trade information is so useless that we should ignore it coBilateral trade has always been a pretty suspect information source for anyone trying to understand how trade imbalances are generated, but by now the bilateral trade information is so useless that we should ignore it cobilateral trade information is so useless that we should ignore it completely.

As I discuss in Appendix 1, economists who try to explain the sources of trade imbalances by analyzing bilateral trade balances are almost always only confusing the discussion.

Once we recognize that bilateral trade reflects the complexity of trade in the global economy, and not the sources of the trade imbalances (as I explain in Section 9), it becomes clear that Mexico is not a source of American trade imbalances, and is in fact far more likely to be providing relief.

For most of this period, bilateral imbalances told us most of what we needed to know, and it was useful to assume that trade drove capital.