Sentences with phrase «increase trade deficits»

The US increased its trade deficit with the EU by $ 5 billion, mostly via gains by Ireland and Italy, as imports surged $ 18 billion, and exports rose $ 13 billion.

So while changes in trade policy can shift imports and exports from one country to another, for example, reducing the American trade deficit with China while increasing its trade deficit with Thailand, they are unlikely to reduce the American trade deficit overall.

«Increasing foreign investment increases the trade deficit.

Debt - financed tax cuts may well push up interest rates in the U.S., which attracts more foreign investment, which raises the value of the dollar, which makes exports less competitive and imports cheaper, which increases the trade deficit.

Not exact matches

«It works against the administration's goal of increasing U.S. exports to eliminate our trade deficit,» says Dan Ikensen, an economist at the Cato Institute.

Imports rose 11.9 percent in the year to February, a fourth straight increase but below expectations of a 15.1 percent rise, leaving the trade balance in a deficit for the eighth consecutive month.

In January and February, the U.S. trade deficit with those three large economic systems, accounting for about 40 percent of world's demand and output, was running at an annual rate of $ 612.3 billion, a 3 percent increase from the same period of 2017.

The American trade deficit with China in January and February was running at an annual rate of $ 391.2 billion — a 20 percent increase over the same period of 2017.

Even if you set the issue of employment aside, the U.S. trade deficit over the past five years increased, meaning that the rest of the world was more successful at selling us more stuff than vice versa.

Trade has grown sharply between the three nations who are parties to NAFTA but that increase of trade activity has resulted in rising trade deficits for the U.S. with both Canada and Mexico -; the U.S. imports more from Mexico and Canada than it exports to these trading partTrade has grown sharply between the three nations who are parties to NAFTA but that increase of trade activity has resulted in rising trade deficits for the U.S. with both Canada and Mexico -; the U.S. imports more from Mexico and Canada than it exports to these trading parttrade activity has resulted in rising trade deficits for the U.S. with both Canada and Mexico -; the U.S. imports more from Mexico and Canada than it exports to these trading parttrade deficits for the U.S. with both Canada and Mexico -; the U.S. imports more from Mexico and Canada than it exports to these trading partners.

«We're working on a tax reform bill that will reduce our trade deficits, increase American exports and will generate revenue from Mexico that will pay for the wall if we decide to go that route,» said Trump.

Imports increased 14.4 percent, leaving a trade deficit of $ 4.98 billion, the first since February 2017.

A separate report from the Commerce Department showed exports increased 1.2 percent in October, helping to narrow the trade deficit.

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.

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

Trump proposes eliminating America's $ 500 billion trade deficit through a combination of increased exports and reduced imports.

In that event, even as China's trade surplus with the U.S. fell, America's deficit with other countries would rise by even more, increasing its overall trade deficit, underpinned this time either by rising debt or rising unemployment.

al (2015) to note that the positive effects of the housing bubble during the previous expansion were offset by an increase in the US trade deficit, and that bubbles were only modestly relevant in the late 1990s.

And though exports of oil have increased, helping to shrink the U.S. trade deficit in energy by half from fourth quarter 2016 to fourth quarter 2017, the improvement has had negligible impact on the much larger overall U.S. trade deficit, which grew during that period.

That was dropped and the latest tax policies seem to abandon much of the strong mechanism for reducing trade deficits with policies that increase the fiscal deficit and thus capital account surplus.

Finally, the fifth way would cause the U.S. trade deficit to decline in ways that would likely either reduce U.S. unemployment or reduce U.S. debt; this fifth way would also cause the Chinese trade surplus to decline in ways that would likely either increase Chinese unemployment or increase Chinese debt.

By storing its surplus export revenues in Treasury bonds, South Korea nudges up the relative value of the dollar against our competitors» currencies, and our trade deficit increases, even though the original transaction had nothing to do with the United States.

The trade implications are clear: China ran a $ 22 billion trade surplus, and the U.S. trade deficit increased by $ 19 billion.

Before the LDC Debt Crisis of 1982, for example, huge petrodollar hoards were recycled into developing countries, and these capital flows funded increases in consumption and investment that led to the large trade deficits that balanced the net capital inflows.

Until we understand this do not expect the global crisis to end anytime soon, except perhaps temporarily with a new surge in credit - fueled consumption in the US (which will cause the trade deficit to worsen) and more wasted investment in China (which, because it is financed with cheap debt, which comes at the expense of the household sector, may simply increase investment at the expense of consumption).

Bryan Riley, director of the Free Trade Initiative at the National Taxpayers Union, said that an increase in the trade deficit from the prior year «should not be viewed as a problem to be fixed, but as a predictable result of a growing economy that enables people to afford more imports.&rTrade Initiative at the National Taxpayers Union, said that an increase in the trade deficit from the prior year «should not be viewed as a problem to be fixed, but as a predictable result of a growing economy that enables people to afford more imports.&rtrade deficit from the prior year «should not be viewed as a problem to be fixed, but as a predictable result of a growing economy that enables people to afford more imports.»

Punishing Mexican exports would risk destabilizing the economy of an important country whose prosperity adds to U.S. prosperity, would only increase pressure for poor Mexican to emigrate, and in the end would almost certainly make the U.S. trade deficit even larger.

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.

The Trump administration, for example, wants not just to force a contraction in the trade deficit but has also proposed policies aimed at increasing U.S. investment, partly by making investment more profitable (cutting corporate taxes and rebuilding American infrastructure) and partly by increasing savings (cutting taxes on the very wealthy).

Japan posted a trade deficit of ¥ 109.68 billion with the rest of Asia after imports gained 3.0 percent to ¥ 3.46 trillion and exports increased 16.0 percent to ¥ 3.35 trillion, the largest on record for the month.

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.

The goals include reducing trade deficits with NAFTA countries, strengthening rules of origin to ensure the pact's benefits aid products that are made in North America and increasing market access for telecommunications and financial services.

The trade deficit in the US widened to $ 43.5 billion in September from $ 42.8 billion in August, led by a faster pace in imports, which rose by 1.2 percent, offsetting a 1.1 - percent increase in exports.

Concerns over negative economic impacts, such as a widening trade deficit with China, increased control of certain sectors by Chinese state - owned enterprises (SOEs), and intensified competition in the labour market for mid-skilled and less educated Canadian workers in particular; [1]

But his tax cuts increase the budget deficit and the country's reliance on foreign capital, almost guaranteeing a worsening trade balance.

But even though Trump attaches meaning to irrelevant metrics like bilateral trade deficits in a global economy, where two - thirds of trade flows are intermediate goods and only 3.6 % of the value of an Apple iPhone is Chinese (yet the entire $ 179 cost is chalked up as an import from China, exacerbating the bilateral deficit), the fact is that frictions in the relationship have been increasing since well before this president assumed office.

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.

A separate report from the Commerce Department showed exports increased 1.2 percent in October, helping to slightly narrow the trade deficit.

The combined effects of the appreciation of the dollar and weaker external demand have already seen a sharp increase in the trade deficit, with both a rapid rise in imports and a fall in exports.

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).

«We're working on a tax reform bill that will reduce our trade deficits, increase American exports and will generate revenue from Mexico that will pay for the wall if we decide to go that route,» Trump announced at a GOP policy retreat in Philadelphia.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

India's net oil import bill increases by over 0.3 percent of GDP with every $ 10 per barrel increase in prices, putting pressure on the trade deficit.

Overall, Canada's trade deficit with the EU is likely increase further.

Arguably, a contracting economy would decrease the tax base, increasing the budget deficit while at the same time decreasing the domestic market's ability to buy treasuries, leading to a larger trade deficit.

The second issue the Reform Party is concerned with is that prior free trade deals have increased America's trade deficit.

Based off trends with CAFTA and NAFTA, it is safe to assume that a free trade deal with these nations will increase deficits.

The same data shows that since the start of free trade agreements with NAFTA in 1992, America's trade deficit rose from 39.2 billion dollars to 559.8 billion in 2011, or an increase of over 1428 percent.

Since the start of free trade agreements with NAFTA in 1992, America's trade deficit rose from 39.2 billion dollars to 559.8 billion in 2011, or an increase of over 1428 percent.

Given that the U.S. imports more than 90 percent of its seafood, aquaculture presents a powerful opportunity to increase domestic supply and reduce the nation's seafood trade deficit, which now totals over $ 13 billion.