Sentences with phrase «current trade deficit»

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A number of U.S. policymakers have sought to justify stoking a trade war with China in recent weeks, saying it is «unfair» for the world's biggest economy to have a current account deficit — which measures the flow of goods, services and investments into and out of the country — with Beijing.

That should ensure that borrowing costs will remain low, but in the longer - run trade deficits and shrinking current account surpluses could threaten Japan's ability to finance a debt pile that is twice the size of its economy, the highest ratio in the developed world.

Data released on Wednesday showed the current account - a broadly defined measure of trade that includes services and investment income - recorded a deficit of $ 4.152 billion in February.

It is difficult, for example, to say with certainty what percentage of the current U.S. trade deficit -; which stood at a record $ 65,677 million at the end of 2005 -; is directly attributable to NAFTA.

The total money that ants receive from their trade (current account) surplus is perfectly balanced by the capital account deficit, which is simply the amount of savings they send abroad.

Except for a period in the early 1960s, when Robert Triffin explored what became known as the Triffin Dilemma, in which foreign hoarding of U.S. dollars was linked to persistent U.S. trade deficits, the relationship between the capital and current accounts seems since then to have mystified most economists, including those specializing in trade, even as U.S. trade deficits and foreign capital inflows soared, and as the growth in international capital flows, once consisting largely of trade finance, exploded relative to trade flows and relegated trade finance to minor importance.

Chinese trade surplus: Because Beijing's decision would reduce the Chinese capital account deficit, it would necessarily also result in a reduction in the Chinese current account or trade surpluses.

Chinese trade surplus: Beijing's decision would leave the Chinese capital account deficit unchanged, so it could not have an impact on the Chinese current account or trade surpluses.

U.S. trade deficit: Because Beijing's decision would reduce the overall U.S. capital account surplus, it would also reduce the U.S. current account and trade deficits.

The other is to impose trade tariffs or, what amounts to the same thing, to tax foreign purchases of US assets, especially US government bonds, in order to drive down the current account deficit and so allow the US to retain a larger share of what has become the most valuable commodity in the world: demand.

Since the current account balance is almost wholly driven by the trade balance, limiting the capital account surplus must limit the trade deficit.

It is this chronic current - account gap that drives the multilateral trade deficit with 101 countries.

U.S. trade deficit: Beijing's decision would leave the U.S. capital account surplus unchanged, so it could not have any impact on the U.S. current account or trade deficits.

To return to our example, we want to understand what will happen if China runs a $ 22 billion trade surplus and exports the full amount to the United States, which causes the U.S. capital account surplus and the US current account deficit both to rise by $ 19 billion.

Chinese trade surplus: Beijing's decision would leave the Chinese capital account deficit unchanged, so it could not have any impact on the Chinese current account or trade surpluses.

Chinese trade surplus: Because Beijing's decision would leave the Chinese capital account deficit unchanged, it would have no impact on the Chinese current account or trade surpluses.

As a net importer of capital and with its large current account deficit, Mexico helps absorb excess global savings and production that might otherwise force even larger U.S. trade deficits.2 It does so in two ways.

Since 1976, the U.S. has sustained merchandise trade deficits with other nations, and since 1982, current account deficits.

Although India runs a merchandise trade deficit (2 1/2 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), it has a modest surplus on the current account (0.8 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), owing to sizeable inward current transfers and a surplus for net services.

And a bigger current - account deficit means that the already - large trade deficit will only widen further, violating one of the main tenets of Trumponomics — that making America great again requires closing the trade gap.

President Trump's plans to force US companies to bring their factories back to the US, to renegotiate trade deals and / or to impose trade tariffs on China and Mexico would all cause the US Current Account deficit to shrink.

In the June quarter, the trade deficit has declined a little, and the current account deficit may have also declined, depending on the size of the net income deficit.

These events have contributed to a decline in the volume of exports, a fall in Australia's terms of trade and a widening of the current account deficit.

Other concerns for the dollar are the US budget deficit and the current account deficit and the upcoming trade war.

In the March quarter, the current account deficit was 5.4 per cent of GDP, driven largely by a widening in the trade deficit to 1.8 per cent of GDP.

In contrast to other movements in the current account deficit during recent years, which were mainly the result of fluctuations in Australia's trade balance, the most recent increase largely reflected rising payments on Australia's stock of net foreign liabilities — the net income deficit (Graph C1).

«But, the collapse in oil / commodity prices and sharp fall in the pace of world trade means that these same economies will likely experience an aggregate current account deficit for the first time since 1998,» says Citi.

The New York Times reports that China is taking a hard line on the two specific requests made by the Trump administration: to cut the US bilateral trade deficit by $ 100bn from the current $ 375bn, as well as limits to state support for advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electric cars, and commercial aircraft, all part of the Made in China 2025 programme.

At the same time, the deficit in the country's current account — the imbalance in the trading of goods and services as well as the shortfall in all other cross-border payments from interest income and rents to dividends and profits on direct investments — underwent its fastest ever quarterly deterioration.

He contends the UK will get «pretty close to tariff - free trade, maybe slightly less free access than the current status quo» given our trade deficit with the bloc.

For countries with large current account deficits, a weakening dollar can provide relief both in the cost of financing and in trade.

Capital flows are much larger than trade flows; it should be no surprise that the US Dollar does not react to the current account deficit.

The U.S. economy has experienced a period of debt - financed, consumption - led «expansion» with stagnant wages and employment, and has been running large and rising current account deficits (the current account deficit is a broad measure of the trade deficit).

The current - account deficit is broader than the more familiar trade deficit — which has also been extremely high, running between $ 600 billion and $ 700 billion from 2004 to 2005 — ince the current - account deficit incorporates all investment and payments, including dividends and other remittances, flowing to and from countries.