No buying imports is NOT fine for us, any more. We can no longer affort to pretend things are just fine.
The countries we (should) be exporting to, have been playing us for fools.
Unfortunately, most of our business sector, has obliged.
By being ... fools.
My point was that it is find as long as it is balanced by true exports - not meaningless ones meant to fudge numbers.
Absent this, then we should not be importing like we currently are - especially from China.