China-U.S. Trade Issues Wayne M. Morrison Specialist in Asian Trade and Finance July 29‚ 2010 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov RL33536 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress China-U.S. Trade Issues Summary U.S.-China economic ties have expanded substantially over the past three decades. Total U.S.China trade rose from $5 billion in 1980 to $409 billion in 2008. Although commercial ties were sharply affected by the global economic crisis
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Foreign Trade of China K.C. Fung University of California‚ Santa Cruz Hitomi Iizaka University of California‚ Santa Cruz Sarah Tong University of Hong Kong June 2002 Paper prepared for an international conference on “China’s Economy in the 21st Century”‚ to be held on June 24-25‚ 2002‚ Hong Kong. We would like to thank Alan Siu and Richard Wong for their encouragement. 1. Introduction On December 11‚ 2001‚ China officially joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) and became its 143rd
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International Trade Theories Mercantilism Mercantilism was a sixteenth-century economic philosophy that maintained that a country’s wealth was measured by its holdings of gold and silver (Mahoney‚ Trigg‚ Griffin‚ & Pustay‚ 1998). This recquired the countries to maximise the difference between its exports and imports by promoting exports and discouraging imports. The logic was transparent to sixteenth-century policy makers-if foreigners buy more goods from you than you buy from them‚ then the foreigners
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Ricardian Trade Model One factor economy * 2 countries (home‚ foreign) * 2 goods (cheese‚ wine) We will focus on HOME 1st. One factor – LABOUR (homogeneous) Lc: Labor used in Cheese production Lw: Labor used in Wine production Exogenous total endowment of labor : L Resource Constraint: Lc + Lw = L (1) Production Functions: Qc = Lc / aLc Qw= Lw / aLw (2) aLc = amount of labor needed to produce one unit of cheese aLw = amount of labor needed to produce one unit
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RESTRAINT OF TRADE The doctrine of restraint of trade is a legal device to attempt to hold the balance between two competing factors - an employee’s freedom to take employment as and when he wishes‚ and an employer’s interest in preserving certain aspects of his business. Both factors are important‚ and indeed the law will protect the employer if necessary by the implication of the term fidelity in the contract of employment thereby restraining the employee inter alia from divulging confidential
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Did free trade help or hinder British economic growth in the period down to 1914? Despite the highly favourable views that many neo-classical economistshold on the concept of free trade and its contribution towards economic growth‚ the backlash against free trade’s effect on economic growth during the British Victorian period continues unabated. The term ‘free trade’ can be defined as “the unrestricted purchase and sale of goods and services between countries without the imposition of constraints
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evidenced by a $700 billion annual trade deficit in 2008 that has nearly doubled since 2000. At these kinds of deficit levels‚ will the U.S. continue to be the economic engine on which the world runs? Will the world eventually lose confidence in the value and longevity of the U.S. dollar‚ creating a problem for the world economy and stifling international trade for the U.S.? We addressed these questions by focusing on three related‚ but distinct issues: 1. The Trade Deficit for the U.S. is Not
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the Atlantic Slave Trade were products of Western Europe’s expansion of power that began at the beginning of the 1500’s through the 1900‘s. The main contributing European countries to the Atlantic Slave Trade were Portugal‚ Spain‚ the Netherlands‚ France‚ and England. Portugal lead the movement during the 1400’s and arrived in Western Africa in hopes to find Christian allies to spread Christianity against the Muslims of Northern Africa. But they soon became more interested in trade (Hine‚ Hine & Harrold
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Canadian Trade History Assignment You are required to write a 2 page paper outlining Canada’s trade history. It is due not later than Sunday March 3‚ at 6:00pm‚ submitted to Moodle You need to use at least 3 sources: your textbook‚ your class notes and 1 other source of your choice. Sources need to be cited properly. Your essay must cover all periods of trade: pre-European contact‚ early contact/colonial‚ late colonial‚ American-dominated‚ international. In each period‚ include what was
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of the key investors in the slave institution it became the first major European country to leave the trans- Atlantic slave trade and make it illegal in 1807. The discovery of the Americas at the end of the 15th century opened up new economic incentives that led to the greatest transportation of human capital in the form of slaves. From about 1500 to the end of the 1800’s millions of slaves from Africa were taken to the Americas. Britain started the process of
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