Sentences with phrase «trade imbalances in»

Here are the countries with which the US has the largest trade imbalances in goods (services not included).
It is the rare combination of a simultaneous impact of hugely restrictive fiscal policies, gravely damaged channels of financial intermediation and crippling trade imbalances in especially depressed segments of the world economy - the euro area - where there is an obvious need for a strong stimulation of domestic demand in countries of that region whose trade surpluses range from 2 percent to nearly 9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
And: «The new NAFTA will be modernized to reflect 21st century standards and will reflect a fairer deal, addressing America's persistent trade imbalances in North America.»

Not exact matches

He points to high levels of global debt, low liquidity in markets, political events affecting trade and structural imbalances in some emerging economies.
In a much - needed win for Trump, the two leaders agreed on a 100 - day assessment of the trade imbalance between the world's two largest economies.
Yes, it is true that America's trade imbalance with Mexico is at quite high right now in terms of dollars.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said she's «delighted» that U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin wants her organization to increase transparency on trade imbalances and debt sustainability in countries like China, an effort she said is already underway.
The devaluation has caused turmoil in markets all over the world this past week due to fears of a global trade imbalance and currency wars.
WASHINGTON, April 21 - A multilateral framework like the Trans - Pacific Partnership pact works better in fixing trade imbalances than a bilateral deal, IMF Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa said in an endorsement of Japan's calls for Washington to rejoin TPP.
In normal circumstances he believed in a balanced budget and maybe a bit of a surplus for bad times but what he believed was fatal to a nation was running deficit trade imbalanceIn normal circumstances he believed in a balanced budget and maybe a bit of a surplus for bad times but what he believed was fatal to a nation was running deficit trade imbalancein a balanced budget and maybe a bit of a surplus for bad times but what he believed was fatal to a nation was running deficit trade imbalances.
US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin complained about persistent trade surpluses and stated that «We urge the IMF to speak out more forcefully on the issue of external imbalances, including by providing clear policy recommendations for countries with large surpluses, in support of more balanced global growth.»
The cost of living will increase, there will be more of a trade imbalance, the Federal government will be forced to become more socialistic and skilled foreigners will need to be brought in to work.
Rather than intervene directly, only to undermine global trade and worsen these imbalances, Washington must address the role the U.S. plays in absorbing global capital.
What's important to recognize is that the deep trade imbalances afflicting the U.S. in recent years mainly reflect the impunity with which other countries exploit access to its capital account.
No analysis on how systematic wage arbitrage allowed by trade globalization between countries of very different income level within an exchange rate system allowing massive an persistent trade imbalances led to a massive opening up of compensation scales in developed countries, as well as substantial under - employment.
In addressing the trade imbalance with China, Mr. Trump addressed an issue that has been a focus of his speeches going back to 2011, when he considered running for president when President Obama was seeking re-election.
In early 1968, the financially strapped administration became so alarmed about the country's trade imbalance that Mr. Fowler proposed a detailed plan to Congress to curb foreign travel by imposing a tax on spending outside the Western Hemisphere at rates of 15 or 30 percent, exempting only the first $ 7 a day.
Because I have long argued that these reforms would at best reverse the process by which the imbalances were created (especially the elimination of the financial distress «tax») if the balance sheet approach to rebalancing were the appropriate model, and are implicit in the trade - off among three outcomes I list above, they are at least consistent with what I believe is the correct analysis.
There is a huge imbalance in liquidity and trading volumes between exchange trading and OTC.
As I discuss in Appendix 1, economists who try to explain the sources of trade imbalances by analyzing bilateral trade balances are almost always only confusing the discussion.
Once we recognize that bilateral trade reflects the complexity of trade in the global economy, and not the sources of the trade imbalances (as I explain in Section 9), it becomes clear that Mexico is not a source of American trade imbalances, and is in fact far more likely to be providing relief.
This means Mexico is importing excess global savings and, rather than contributing to global and U.S. trade imbalances, is in fact helping to absorb them.
First, trade imbalances originate in other countries that resolve them directly by exporting excess savings to the United States, and indirectly by exporting excess production in the form of intermediate goods shipped to several countries in a value chain, which in turn run trade surpluses with the United States.
Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).
If British textile manufacturers could produce and ship textiles to France at a much lower cost than French producers could manage, for example, England would run a trade surplus in textiles with France, and bankers would finance the trade imbalances.
Any policy that does not clearly result in a reversal of the deep debt, trade and capital imbalances of the past decade is a policy that can not be sustained.
Attempts to export its excess savings can only lead to one of three outcomes: A) global growth rises because Europe's savings are all directed at developing countries with significant infrastructure investment needs and insufficient capital, B) global growth drops sharply, global unemployment rises, and China's adjustment becomes all but impossible, C) international trade and capital flows collapse in a repeat of the 1930s, so that Europe is forced to resolve its savings imbalance either by a massive increase in unemployment or a wave of sovereign defaults.
In sovereign debt and, to an even greater degree, corporate bond markets, liquidity hinges in large part on whether specialised dealers («market - makers») respond to temporary imbalances in supply and demand by stepping in as buyers (or sellers) against trades sought by other market participantIn sovereign debt and, to an even greater degree, corporate bond markets, liquidity hinges in large part on whether specialised dealers («market - makers») respond to temporary imbalances in supply and demand by stepping in as buyers (or sellers) against trades sought by other market participantin large part on whether specialised dealers («market - makers») respond to temporary imbalances in supply and demand by stepping in as buyers (or sellers) against trades sought by other market participantin supply and demand by stepping in as buyers (or sellers) against trades sought by other market participantin as buyers (or sellers) against trades sought by other market participants.
The trade imbalance is about $ 375 billion in China's favor.
Ambassador Wise noted, in his address, quite a number of factors — mostly misconceptions about Thailand — which had contributed to the trade imbalance.
In other words, the budget imbalance between taxes and government expenditures has a direct impact on foreign trade imbalances.
But oil's wild ride has exposed fissures that have been deepening for years, such as Canada's overreliance on household debt and real estate for growth, as well as imbalances in trade and the labour market.
Unable to come up with any agreement in Seoul on resolving conflicts over currency and trade, the G20 created its own mantra: «Persistent global imbalances pose a threat to economic stability.»
Chapman expects it will develop into a prolonged recession caused largely by the bursting of the housing bubble and the weakness in the dollar attributable to the United States» large federal budget deficit and international trade imbalance.
For as long as these objectives can be achieved, the value of the US dollar can also be stabilized in relation to other currencies, despite the extraordinary imbalances in external trade.
Among the issues pushed to the forefront of the negotiations by the Trump administration are measures to reduce trade imbalances, particularly the imbalance in goods between the US and Mexico.
To the extent that the products in question are manufactured in the United States — and some are — constricting China sales can also deepen the imbalance of trade between China and the U.S., a gap that has been a top concern for the Trump administration.
Tao Wenzhao, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Science's Institute for American Studies, said in an interview that Trump's decision not to blame China «shows that he understands the complex reasons behind the trade imbalance.
This imbalance causes resentment in its trading partners and is unsustainable.
At the same time, the deficit in the country's current account — the imbalance in the trading of goods and services as well as the shortfall in all other cross-border payments from interest income and rents to dividends and profits on direct investments — underwent its fastest ever quarterly deterioration.
The goal in these negotiations is to address the $ 1.3 - billion imbalance in U.S. - EU dairy trade due to EU trade barriers, as well as to roll back the EU's efforts to expand its restrictive system of geographical indications (GIs).
Chinese officials are hoping to mollify President Trump's oft - stated displeasure with America's huge trade imbalance with China by pledging to import «at least $ 200 billion» more in made - in - the - USA products, the director of the White House National Economic Council said Friday.
The Chairman of Northern Governors» Forum, Dr Babangida Aliyu yesterday said the Nigeria Governors» Forum (NGF) is not a trade union but an avenue for correcting the imbalances in the nation's polity.
On the other hand, trade - related deaths resulted in the opposite imbalance: The consumption of Chinese - made goods in Western Europe and the United States likely caused more than 108,600 premature deaths in China.
The results, the authors conclude, «demonstrate the economic interdependence of Chinese provinces, while also highlighting the enormous differences in wealth, economic structure, and fuel mix that drive imbalances in interprovincial trade and the emission embodied in trade
The growing complexity of modern living, for individual, communities and societies, also suggests that the solutions to our problems will be also be complex: in a structurally imbalanced world, the imperative of reconciling diverse perspectives and interests, in local settings with sometimes global implications, will require young people to become adept in handling tensions, dilemmas and trade - offs.
He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.
But when the book came out it coincided with George Bush's trip to Japan and enormous interest in U.S. - Japanese relations because of the trade imbalance.
I will need to make a few trades in my IRA to correct this imbalance.
If the trades were not broken up, then there would not be an imbalance in the «number» of «smart» vs. retail buyers / sellers, right?
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