Sentences with phrase «net trade deficits»

Yes there can be net trade deficits, but that is not income.

That is why we have a NAFTA net trade deficit in goods of $ 70 billion.

Not exact matches

«In particular, trade deficits are financed by net capital inflows.

U.S. investment exceeds U.S. savings, and the United States runs a trade deficit that is by definition equal to the gap between investment and savings.1 It also runs a capital account surplus equal to the gap because this is the amount of net foreign capital inflow that bridges the gap, and the trade account and the capital account for any country must always balance to zero.

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.

If Washington takes steps to reduce or eliminate Mexico's bilateral surplus with the United States, and this causes net capital inflows into Mexico to decline, Mexico's [trade] deficit must decline, regardless of what happens to its bilateral surplus with the United States.

The bigger the trade deficit, the greater the net amount of capital the United States was importing, and on average the more productive investments Americans could fund.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

America's massive «military» budgets, still on the rise, are beginning to threaten the U.S. with bankruptcy, given that its trade and fiscal deficits already easily make it the world's largest net debtor nation.

The «trade deficit» is simply the net sum of these assets that have been excluded from consideration.

If they then hold those dollars as reserves, then that means they imported something into the US without exporting something from the US in trade, which creates a net import, aka, a «trade deficit».

The company reported full - year revenue growth of just 3 %, net debt plus pension deficit plus trade payables (net of receivables) totaling GBP 560 Million, and produced just GBP 31.6 M of free cash flow (vs. a prior GBP 42.0 M)-- and GNC still manages to sport a GBP 941 M market cap & an estimated P / E of 15.2!?