Sentences with phrase «larger trade deficits»

It is not hard to imagine a scenario where the US runs larger trade deficits, both bilaterally and at the headline level, as a result of NAFTA's demise.

Larger budget deficits would mean larger trade deficits with the attendant costs and less space for government to respond to the next recession.

For example, Ontario runs a very large trade deficit with China and a smaller one, though still sizeable, with Mexico.

And with a slow - growing economy and large trade deficits, Washington will probably be even less tolerant of an onslaught of Japanese exports.

Trump is taking Beijing to task over China's large trade deficit with the U.S., which Washington says is in part due to unfair trade practices.

MEXICO CITY, March 5 - Ministers from the United States, Canada and Mexico meet on Monday to wrap up the latest round of NAFTA talks under the shadow of U.S. «We have large trade deficits with Mexico and Canada.

For the same reason that absolutely no relevant information about my economic health is conveyed by knowledge of the fact that I have a large trade deficit with my plumber (who is one of many people with whom I economically interact), absolutely no relevant information about America's economic health is conveyed by knowledge of the fact that America has a large trade deficit with China (which is one of many countries with which Americans economically interact).

But more important, the United States has by far the largest trade deficit in the world, which means that the other big economies like Germany, Japan, and China are dependent on U.S. demand for their economies to grow.

The connection is the other way around: BECAUSE the dollar is the largest reserve currency, the US gets away with large trade deficits.

We have large trade deficits with Mexico and Canada.

This reflects a view that Trump has consistently maintained in his personal rhetoric and that has been reflected in the official documents put out by some of the members of his trade team — trade deficits are per se bad, reducing them induces prosperity mechanically, and so there is no downside to a trade war with a country with whom the United States runs a large trade deficit.

Since the 1990s, though, Japan's growth has been mostly flat, and trade friction much more subdued, even as the United States continues to run large trade deficits with Japan.

I've given you some candidates above, and I'd add over this period: especially large trade deficits and the rise of the finance sector.

The United States has the world's largest trade deficit.

That's why the countries with which the United States has the largest trade deficits in goods are not always its most important trading partners.

With its flexible financial system and the gradual elimination by the 1970s of all capital restrictions, the United States was able quickly to adapt, and began running large trade deficits whose costs, in the form of unemployment and consumer debt, it was willing to absorb for geopolitical advantage, the importance of which soared during the Cold War.

If there is such a thing as a global engine of growth, in the latter case, it is the country that is able (or is forced) to import the most amount of capital and export the most amount of demand (i.e. run the largest trade deficit).

The US was also a debt ridden, debtor nation that had large trade deficits.

Something similar happened a decade later, when East Asian countries, after years of mercantilist trade surpluses, began running large trade deficits.

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.

The U.S. is almost guaranteed to have large trade deficits year after year A low savings rate makes shrinking the trade gap much harderA low savings rate makes shrinking the trade gap much harder, writes Rex Nutting.

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.

China runs large trade deficits with most east Asian countries, but these are more than offset by trade surpluses with the United States and Europe.

Once the Bretton Woods system broke down in 1971, the United States discovered they could run very large trade deficits with the rest of the world.

When the US has a large trade deficit, it will have an equally large amount of capital inflows coming into the country to finance that trade deficit.

Will trade liberalization benefit those countries that have large trade deficits in services?

«America's largest trade deficit is with China and it is growing,» said Assini, the Gates town supervisor, who is making his second attempt to unseat the congresswoman.

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.

However Wilson's government had inherited a large trade deficit that led to a currency crisis and ultimately a doomed attempt to stave off devaluation of the pound.

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

Beginning around 1980, the United States began running very large trade deficits for the first time.

Not exact matches

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.

Beijing will not sell North Korea down the river in exchange for Trump's leniency on large, and growing, trade deficits with China.

To make matters worse, economists can not agree on what has caused America's manufacturing malaise or why the trade deficit is so persistently large.

«Due to the large U.S. trade deficit, it was clear that ethanol could be one of those products used to reduce the imbalance,» the diplomat said.

But there is no need for political clashes to convince large trade surplus countries in East Asia to keep more of their hard - earned savings home - instead of financing deficits of much richer countries - to improve their infrastructure and public services.

The federal government disclosed a larger - than - expected trade deficit and the dollar fell in value.

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.

While the business community will always be cautious when it comes to embracing large deficits, we are satisfied that many key economic investments and priorities have been included,» said Iain Black, President and CEO, Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

I'm extremely confident that the incoming Trump administration will not stand for large, persistent trade deficits.

But the president declared that the United States would no longer tolerate running a trade deficit of nearly $ 400 billion with China, its second - largest trading partner, after the European Union.

The United States during this period ran large trade surpluses and capital account deficits as it exported its excess savings to fund its net exports while the growth of its trading partners was constrained by their urgent investment needs.

I published this piece in today's WaPo arguing that based on recent global dynamics — very low interest rates, strengthening dollar, capital flows, larger US trade deficit — the Fed must be very careful about raising rates.

Fundamentals: The Canadian dollar put in an impressive session despite the large than Trade Deficit and the stronger U.S. dollar.

And he pledged to lower U.S. trade deficits by raising tariffs on goods from countries that run large trade surpluses with the U.S.

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.

The overall United States trade deficit in goods and services with the world widened 12.1 percent to $ 566 billion last year, the largest gap since 2008.

Because of U.S. trade intervention, in other words, U.S. jobs gains in industries competing with Mexico would be more than offset by U.S. jobs losses as a larger overall American trade deficit undermined other American industries.

In there, he discussed how it makes sense for Canada to run a trade deficit with the US cuz it's a large energy exporter to the US.

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.