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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

5. The U.S. Trade Deficit with China: An Excuse

Author : Tao Yuan

Published in: On China's Trade Surplus

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

With development of economic globalization and China’s opening-up policy, the economic and trade relationship between China and the U.S., which are the largest developing country and the largest developed country respectively, have significant influence on the two countries themselves and the whole world. The U.S. is the largest trade partner and over-sea market of China, and China is the largest trade deficit source of the U.S. The U.S. continuously dispraises China’s exports and exchange rate of RMB, and tries to contribute them to the imbalance of global economy. In fact, the most important reasons of the U.S. trade deficit are dollar hegemony and economic structure of the U.S., which means that even when there are no China’s exports the U.S. trade deficit will not disappear. The U.S. trade deficit with China is an excuse, which the U.S. takes to suppress China’s economic advantage.

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2
The Plaza Accord (or Plaza Agreement) was an agreement between the governments of France, West Germany, Japan, the U.S., and the UK, to depreciate the U.S. dollar (USD) in relation to the Japanese yen (JPY) and German Deutsche Mark (DEM) by intervening in international currency markets.
 
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Some economists regarded seigniorage as a form of inflation tax, since issuing new currency can redistribute real resources to the currency issuer and may cause inflation in the long run.
 
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Metadata
Title
The U.S. Trade Deficit with China: An Excuse
Author
Tao Yuan
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38925-2_5