Re: Lure of the US home market
On Aug 12, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
Further to the recent discussion about US market access as a
foreign policy instrument, this from an article by Floyd Norris in today’s NYT on the soaring volume of Chinese exports:“And while the United States is still the world’s No. 1 exporter,
that is nothing compared with its dominance of the other end of the trade
equation. In the first half of this year, it imported more than China and
Germany put together, and three times as much as Japan.”No indication of the source of the data
Export data usually comes from the WTO or the IMF.
Doug