Trade Wars
Thoughts_Arrive
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Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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"China is currently our largest goods trading partner with $578.2 billion in total (two way) goods trade during 2016. Goods exports totaled $115.6 billion; goods imports totaled $462.6 billion. The U.S. goods trade deficit with China was $347.0 billion in 2016.
Trade in services with China (exports and imports) totaled an estimated $70.3 billion in 2016. Services exports were $54.2 billion; services imports were $16.1 billion. The U.S. services trade surplus with China was $38.0 billion in 2016.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. exports of goods and services to China supported an estimated 911,000 jobs in 2015 (latest data available) (601,000 supported by goods exports and 309,000 supported by services exports."
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-chinaIm with Trump on this. The chinese are at the head of the dirty dozen for for steel dumping.
China had to intervene to curb a rout in its $7.7 trillion stock market this morning, sources say
http://business.financialpost.com/investing/china-is-said-to-intervene-in-stocks-after-tariffs-trigger-rout?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook
And then add to that having Trump trying to manage this so-called economy? Crazy.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
also how come china couldn’t match the us tariffs 1 for 1, I understand they’ll retaliate with 3 billion in tariffs...as opposed to 50 billion the us might impose...
China Wants Total Access To Canada, May Seek To Import Its Own Workers
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/25/caanda-china-trade_n_15584542.html
i would never trust the Chinese...
im not in favour of the Chinese buying any industry in Canada...
so what are you saying? The pipeline you oppose is for the benefit of the Chinese...
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I was under the impression that if energy east was completed it would have reduced the amount of Middle East oil we import.
but that’s the crazy thing about this oil business...why do we import oil?
do we not have enough of our own oil?
good luck with your fight over the pipeline, and I am being sincere. I’ll stay neutral on this issue.
Anyways, I would gladly pay more for a USA or Canadian built product...
the community i live has saw first hand the damage NAFTA has done to our manufacturing.
and a local guy (Barry Zekelman) who owns Atlas Tube in Harrow, Ontario and 11 plants in the USA , is all for those tariffs, and said at the time that he felt Canada and Mexico would exempt which we are as of now.
I’m for fair trade, not free trade.
Many have their sites on African countries becoming the new China. It's a bummer that the West loves their 'Stuff' so much. Using up resources and polluting the planet.
Just me though.
Other resources fall in line with that too.
The statistics are easy to find. Doing a quick search, I just read the following stats that say:
"The United States, with less than 5 % of the global population, uses about a quarter of the world's fossil fuel resources."
"Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy."
"Americans make up only 4.5% of the world's population and yet consume nearly 20% of its energy."
The stats vary a bit, of course, but the message is plain and clear. I won't even bother to cite these statistics. They're pretty much common knowledge.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Comparing America to China, I’ll take America thank you very much.
That's the problem, its a cycle that will never be fixed. It all stems back to the stocks and company margins.
In business everyday is a trade war. each side wants to come out on top, nothing new here. Not to mention the fierce competition that exists....