Sentences with phrase «higher trade deficit»

«This means that a higher trade deficit doesn't have to make the U.S. poorer.»

If, on the other hand, it causes productive investment to rise, it is the reverse: a higher trade deficit makes the United States richer.

Not exact matches

As of February, the U.S. also had a record - high $ 375.2 billion trade deficit with China, meaning it spends considerably more on Chinese imports than it makes on exports sent to China.

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.

The all - time high was $ 74.95 billion in 2007, and the trade deficit topped $ 60 billion for six of the seven years between 2006 and 2012.

The U.S. trade deficit, meanwhile, narrowed sharply in March as exports increased to a record high amid a surge in deliveries of commercial aircraft and soybeans, bolstering the economy's outlook heading into the second quarter.

In this case, the United States runs a «good» trade deficit, driven by higher investment, not lower savings.

Still, the UK's trade deficit with China was $ 28.7 billion in 2016 (# 25.4 billion), the highest on record.

Canada's trade deficit in goods jumped to a record high in March, but analysts took heart in data showing healthy export growth.

Next, U.S weekly Jobless Claims were the highest since January 11th and the Trade Deficit expanded more than expected.

Without the inflow of Chinese funds and the trade deficit, we could finance more public spending from the higher taxes on higher GDP.

As evidence that the U.S. deficit is caused by expensive labor, high manufacturing costs, and the spendthrift habits of Americans, many economists will point out that the United States runs bilateral trade deficits with many countries, and not just with China.

WASHINGTON — The United States trade deficit with China climbed to its highest level on record in 2017, a trend that could prompt the Trump administration toward tougher trade actions in the coming months.

The United States is a net importer of Chinese capital, for example, because it must finance its trade deficit with China, and its trade deficit with China is a consequence not of capital flows that may distort trade but rather because of high manufacturing costs in the United States, with expensive labor almost always fingered as the main culprit.

If it is much higher, then a contraction in the trade deficit can not occur without a contraction in net foreign investment, which would only increase the gap between desired and actual investment by reducing actual investment levels.

WASHINGTON The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in March as exports increased to a record high amid a surge in deliveries of commercial aircraft and soybeans, bolstering the economy's outlook heading into the second quarter.

America's trade deficit with the rest of the world narrowed substantially in March, with exports striking the highest level on records that go back 26 years.

OTTAWA — Record high imports helped push Canada's trade deficit to a record for March as it grew to $ 4.1 billion, Statistics Canada said Thursday.

As an aside, although the US trade deficit with China remains quite high (which is actually a sign that the economy was recently strong), gross US exports to China have nevertheless reached a new record high as well.

The United States had a goods and services trade deficit with China of $ 337 billion in 2017, the highest level on record, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an economic nationalism that calls for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.

Despite Trump's firmly held beliefs, tariffs will not close the U.S. trade deficit, absent higher savings (in the public or private sectors) or lower investment.

OTTAWA (MNI)- Canada goods trade deficit reached a record high C$ 4.1 billion in March, widening from C$ 2.9 billion in February, which was slightly revised from C$ 2.7 billion, leading to a deterioration of the balance in the first quarter that does not bode well for net export contribution to GDP growth, according to data from Statistics Canada.

The UK's trade deficit expanded by a further # 1.39 billion in August, widening to # 5.63 billion from # 4.24 billion at the end of July, the highest since September 2016.

Since 2002, almost 250,000 manufacturing workers have lost their jobs because of the high dollar and our huge and growing trade deficit with developing Asian countries. Many are older workers who will typically face a long stretch of unemployment, followed by employment in a new job at much lower wages.

NAFTA supporters assert that the U.S. content in cars assembled in Canada and Mexico is particularly high and that therefore our $ 70 billion - plus trade deficits with our NAFTA partners are not worrisome.

Though he promised to narrow the yawning U.S. trade deficit, it reached $ 566 billion last year, a 12.1 percent increase over 2016 and the highest mark in nine years.

The United States ran a $ 77 billion deficit in the trade of goods in February, the highest level since July 2008.

The main news was the trade deficit, also higher than expected.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Washington's trade deficit widened in January to the highest level since the financial crisis.

The trade deficit with China alone rose to $ 201.6 billion, the highest imbalance ever recorded with any country.

Osborne reeled off the numbers — the highest upward growth revision since the millennium, a fall in the trade deficit, action on business rates to counter Labour's focus on SMEs, extending tax relief to regional theatre as an act of punishment against the provinces.

Long's release snarked that Gillibrand «took a break from her book club» (part of her Off the Sidelines campaign to get more women involved in politics) to tackle trade in hopes of deflecting attention from skyrocketing gas prices, the high unemployment rate, the growing federal deficit and lack of a federal budget for the past three years — the entire time Gillibrand has been a sentor.

Capital spending remains low, London dominant, manufacturing weak, the trade deficit dangerously high.

She was opposed to big government, high taxes and high deficits, to political power of trade unions and Communism.

And the United States has recently developed a trade deficit in high - technology goods, after surpluses during the 1990s.

The high price of the yen (along with weakness in Japan's export markets in the U.S. and Europe) sent Japan's famed trade surplus into deficit for much of 2011 and 2012.

Large trade deficits can contract under conditions of high unemployment, but they can also contract under conditions of low unemployment.

The Greenback's rally was then sustained by the better - than - expected reading for ISM's non-manufacturing PMI (59.8 vs. 55.5 expected, 55.3 previous), as well exports rising to a 2 - and - 1/2 - year high, which resulted in a narrower - than - expected U.S. trade deficit -LRB-- $ 42.4 B vs. - $ 42.7 B expected, - $ 43.6 B previous), and hawkish rhetoric from a bunch of Fed officials.

This «global pool of money» wouldn't have existed without the U.S. running an enormous trade deficit, relying on imports and debt to support a high consumption rate - hence the global «imbalance» of high - saving versus high - consuming countries.

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Already, the high cost of these fossil fuel imports has contributed to Japan's newfound trade deficit of $ 32 billion, the country's first in over 30 years.

Being the second largest nation across the worldwide, India is supposed to lend support to global prices that trading close to the highest level, which could eventually lead to the wide trade deficit of the country.

America's trade deficit with the rest of the world swelled to $ 57.6 billion in February, up 1.5 % from the previous month to the highest level since October 2008.

The weekly jobless claims number was higher than expected in the US, with the trade deficit also widening more than expected, while the British construction PMI was also a negative surprise, but equity markets couldn't care less.

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.