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To: ran15
Its hard to believe though, considering China has a pretty big trade deficit with the rest of the world.

Infact their total exports last year were around 590 billion, and their total imports were 560 billion.

How is that a deficit? Looks more like a overall surplus to me and you don't take into consideration all of the foreign investment being poured into China and all of the benefits of a exceptionally robust economy.

7 posted on 05/18/2005 7:15:16 AM PDT by Realism (Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
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To: Realism
How is that a deficit? Looks more like a overall surplus to me and you don't take into consideration all of the foreign investment being poured into China and all of the benefits of a exceptionally robust economy.

I believe that the poster is referring to trade excluding China-U.S. trade when he refers to "rest of the world", not to simply all of China's foreign trade.

However, I am not sure how well this will hold in the future. If the current pattern of the last few months holds, China looks to make more like $60-80 billion this year -- and maybe a lot more if there is another big burst of high surplus months like at the end of the year.

8 posted on 05/18/2005 8:00:44 AM PDT by snowsislander
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