On the other
side of the trade ledger, and indicating that Chinese demand for raw materials remained firm, Customs said imports surged 14.4 % from a year earlier, above the 6.3 % increase of February and forecasts for a smaller acceleration of 10 %.
And Joseph Romm
of the Center for American Progress has argued that Nisbet's analysis
of interest - group spending is badly skewed — for instance, the report counts BP's entire lobbying budget on the green
side of the
ledger, even though BP lobbies on all sorts
of issues and barely lifted a finger when it came to cap - and -
trade.