Sentences with phrase «rising trade deficit»

As a consequence, Americans should be glad — not angry — that we have experienced a rising trade deficit over this decade.

In particular, India is crying foul over its rising trade deficit with China, which jumped 42 percent to $ 40 billion last fiscal year.

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 partners.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Reducing the fiscal deficit, according to Shultz and Feldstein, causes total U.S. savings to rise, and as total U.S. savings rise, the gap between U.S. savings and U.S. investment must fall, bringing down both the capital account surplus and the trade deficit.

As the calendar turned, a risk environment that was going strong on tax cuts, deregulation and free - market capitalism quickly gave way to 2018 themes of interventionism, trade wars and rising fiscal deficits.

If the fiscal deficit is crowding out investment, cutting it will cause investment to rise, and it might rise by the full $ 100, in which case both savings and investment will rise by enough to have no impact on the trade deficit.

«if America's capital inflows rise, so must its overall trade deficit.

In fact, if investors are worried at all about the U.S. fiscal deficit, then if anything a cut in the deficit will cause even more money to enter the United States, and if the U.S. capital account surplus rises, then so must the U.S. trade deficit, which is the opposite of what Shultz and Feldstein claim.

I am in the bottom right box, in which a cut in the U.S. fiscal deficit will cause no change in the U.S. trade deficit because it will be matched by a decline in household savings as unemployment rises, as consumer debt rises, or both.

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.

For example, if we reduce the fiscal deficit, total savings must rise, in which case the gap between savings and investment must decline with that both the capital account surplus and the trade deficit must decline.

According to this, if the fiscal deficit declines, total savings will rise, and because investment will be unaffected, inevitably the trade deficit must decline.

The U.S. trade deficit will not decline, and may even rise if it causes foreign confidence in the U.S. economy to rise.

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.

• From 2011 to 2016, the U.S. trade deficit in goods with Korea more than doubled, rising from $ 13.2 billion to $ 27.6 billion.

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

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.

It can easily be the case that the American trade deficit with China rose by only $ 10 billion, in which case the American trade deficit with the rest of the world necessarily rose by $ 9 billion, while the Chinese trade surplus with the rest of the world necessarily rose by $ 12 billion.

If the Chinese surplus should rise against the U.S. after a decrease in the trade deficit with Mexico, the U.S. must then do the equivalent of a currency depreciation via a tariff against Chinese goods to force a rebalancing of trade which to me seems like a reasonable plan.

When concerns about burgeoning debt suddenly caused inflows to reverse in 1997, the result once again was collapsing currencies and rising unemployment that violently converted trade deficits into surpluses.

Rising crude oil prices over the last two years will further aggravate the trade deficit as the currency is also depreciating, which will add to the import bill.

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.

The deficit was led by a record rise in imports to # 55.78 billion and a sharp fall in the trade gap of goods.

The falling U.S. trade deficit in large part reflects rising domestic energy production.

While growth in import volumes continued to outpace that of exports in the December quarter, the effect on the trade balance was again cushioned by a rise in the terms of trade, leaving the trade deficit broadly unchanged at 3.2 per cent of GDP (Graph 36).

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.

The U.S. trade deficit with Mexico rose nearly 10 per cent in 2015 to $ 60.7 - billion (U.S.).

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).

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

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.

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.

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).

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Our global trade deficits will rise even if global economies are doing well right now.