Sentences with phrase «trade deficit over»

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

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.

Not exact matches

Between four straight months of falling GDP and record trade deficits, the economic news coming out of Canada over the last few months has been rather grim.

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.

But without a consensus from the economic community, it would be unwise to risk stamping out the economic recovery by sparking a trade war with China over currency disputes or drastically reducing the budget deficit.

But trade flows appear to be shifting: the U.S. ran a deficit with Canada over the three most recent quarters for which data are available, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw from NAFTA unless he can rework it in favor of the United States, arguing that the pact has hollowed out U.S. manufacturing and caused a trade deficit of over $ 60 billion with Mexico.

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.

«What there is is Negotiations going on with North Korea over Nuclear War, Negotiations going on with China over Trade Deficits, Negotiations on NAFTA, and much more.

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 U.S., on the other hand, wants to reduce its trade deficit with China by $ 100 billion, or over one - quarter.

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.

In the House, the trade - offs took on new urgency after Congress's nonpartisan tax accountant found that changes made to the bill since its introduction mean it would add $ 1.57 trillion to the deficit over a decade.

As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an economic nationalism that calls for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.

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

Over this same period in 2016, the trade deficit with China was $ 317.4 billion.

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]

Over the rest of the trading day, the banks exchange funds amongst themselves depending on which institution happens to have a surplus of funds and which happens to have a deficit.

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.

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.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

The Asian crisis that sent the Emerging Countries into a tailspin and collapsing stock markets over the 1997 - 99 period may have been due to a liquidity shortage as the US deficit pushed towards closer balance starting in 1993 and reaching an apex in 1996 with world output (excluding US) for three years between 1994 and 1997 was 3 %, but as the US fiscal stimulus from our trade deficits declined over those years, and without alternatives to replace the extra liquidity, raw material prices growth collapsed and world output slowed dramatically from 3 % to 1 %, and 2 % in the following year.

European concerns about Hollywood films are largely based upon the existing trade deficit with the USA in audiovisual trade and the fact that over half of the movies exhibited in European cinemas are made in the USA against only 2 % European films released in the USA.

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.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

With large US deficits, trade deficits, the quantitative easing already performed by the Federal Reserve, easy money policies, and worldwide debt concerns, investors may rightly be cautious regarding the potential for inflation over upcoming years.

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Already, the high cost of these fossil fuel imports has contributed to Japan's newfound trade deficit of $ 32 billion, the country's first in over 30 years.