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But it said the run of record trade surpluses "points to the possibility that export growth may not slow as much as generally expected" .

As a consequence, it had to run large trade surpluses to absorb the resulting excess capacity in manufacturing.

Even-handed economists consider such trade surpluses just as disruptive to global harmony as the corresponding deficits.

Such a low share left rising investment and trade surpluses as the main engines of Chinese growth.

This should be relatively easy for most of them as they possess large U. S. dollar reserves given their large trade surpluses with the U. S.

China's trade surpluses are just as much a product of the country's low wages and high savings.

The net stimulus to demand imparted to the rest of the world depends on a decline in their trade surpluses or rise in their deficits.

Still, strong trade surpluses are setting the stage for China to let the yuan rise slightly faster.

The forum suggested that the United Nations should be charged with preventing large trade surpluses and deficits from building up.

A third trend that may further slow the flow of dollars into China is the reduction of its huge trade surpluses.

To work, it requires that countries with huge trade surpluses reduce the export-led growth that fed the system's instabilities.

Many economists say China's currency policy has contributed to its large trade surpluses by keeping the yuan undervalued.

Meanwhile, America was running trade surpluses and was a net creditor nation.

She says much the same about Germany's trade surpluses with its eurozone partners: the deficit countries should be more German.

Were the US to start running trade surpluses with China, then China certainly would be an outright seller of treasuries or US$ reserves.

Supporters reply that China's huge trade surpluses -- a reflection of its large savings -- clearly had real effects on the global economy.

He suggested a numerical target: trade surpluses should not exceed 4 percent of a nation's gross domestic product.

Hence, the rest of the world will suffer massive reductions of trade surpluses, regardless of their policies.

The contribution from net exports will have been negative, as suggested by narrowing trade surpluses.

The risk is that their response would be to try to manage their exchange rates to generate large trade surpluses and build up reserves.

China must know that if it insists on running chronic and enormous trade surpluses, the value of its dollar holdings must fall.

In short, China wants consumption to balance investment, so it does not continue to rack up huge trade surpluses.

Likewise, when global trade picks up again, Asian reserves will resume building up, reflecting those countries' ample trade surpluses.

Trade surpluses and deficits derive from mispriced currencies arising from government manipulation.

The result of Germans' prowess at exporting, combined with their reluctance to spend and invest, has been huge trade surpluses.

Purchasing excess amounts of dollars is a policy, in other words, aimed at generating trade surpluses and higher domestic employment.

Note Beijing's surprising receptiveness to Washington's idea of imposing numerical targets on trade surpluses.

Huge oil price rises and continued growing trade surpluses in Asia meant SWFs and central banks accounted for most of the growth.

She racks up huge trade surpluses within the eurozone while others have comparable deficits.

Ronald McKinnon: Martin accurately covers enormous ground on China's exploding current account and trade surpluses.

It is widely believed the currency would appreciate due to persistent trade surpluses and China's abundant foreign reserves.

Additional allocations of Special Drawing Rights would enable countries to build reserves without running trade surpluses.

It is widely believed that the currency would appreciate owing to persistent trade surpluses and China's abundant foreign reserves.

Only then will other countries stop relying on rising trade surpluses and become serious about generating domestic demand.

In short, China has remained heavily dependent on investment and growing trade surpluses to sustain its double-digit growth rate.

If they work as planned, Mr Rodrik's industrial policies would remove one motivation for the emerging world's trade surpluses.

Thanks to this new version of competitive currency manipulation, the dollar-peggers racked up gargantuan trade surpluses.

Corporate profits are surging as well as trade surpluses and government budgets.

Government policies that encourage exports and trade surpluses have pushed China's foreign-currency reserves to more than $3 trillion.

But China, Germany and Japan are large importers of oil and their big trade surpluses could grow as commodity prices decline.

Of course, countries like Japan, Germany and China still run large trade surpluses, which means they are producing more than they buy.

U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has been pressing member nations to adopt targets to lower trade surpluses and trade deficits.

Moreover, the country's trade surpluses and inflow of foreign capital are both likely to remain very large.

When the trade balance for the auto industry is adjusted for, Japan's days of trade surpluses could be over.

To Germany's international critics, the economy's biggest weakness is its reliance on trade surpluses for growth.

Managing soaring trade surpluses is the region's biggest macro-economic challenge, the report said.

Despite the recent dollar decline, America's trading partners still have large trade surpluses.

The north, exemplified by Germany, relies on exports to power its growth, saves hard and runs trade surpluses.

The large trade surpluses cause China to "lend" to us and other countries, regardless of whether we want the "loans. "

The disquiet has been heightened by the enormous trade surpluses China has racked up each year since it joined.

The trade surpluses will be significantly curtailed and the trade deficit is likely to increase.

In recent years China has generated more than $400bn in trade surpluses, so it has the capital to invest.

The nation's strong exports and weak consumption generate trade surpluses that are second only to China's in size.

That was a public capital outflow aimed at supporting its trade surpluses.

What has been bad for Mexico has been good for Argentina, Brazil and Chile, which have enjoyed rising trade surpluses with China.

In addition, the Chinese government is keen to reinvest some of its dollar trade surpluses in acquiring enterprises in the developed world.

If the commodities boom continues, it will leave the oil-rich Middle East with bulging trade surpluses.

The most encouraging development is the shrinkage of China's current account and trade surpluses (see chart).

Their outsized sales and earnings have inflated China's savings and trade surpluses.

At this exchange rate, Chinese manufacturing has a large cost advantage over its rivals, leading to huge trade surpluses.

As fattening trade surpluses and historical comparisons show, the real exchange rate is hardly overvalued.

In the past, ingenious investors found ways to get money offshore, despite the rules and helped offset the trade surpluses.

com Sorry. U. S. trade surpluses in advanced technology products ended in Bush's first term.

But Japan habitually runs trade surpluses and, as a consequence, has built up a big stock of foreign assets.

By the second quarter of 2010, legislators will be rolling out new measures to pressure China on exchange rates and trade surpluses.

Today, America is a deficit country but back then it ran large trade surpluses.

The communiqu? won't include a numerical target for trade surpluses or deficits, which the Obama administration had pushed.

Both nations are accustomed to running huge trade surpluses.

The largest SWF remains Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, created in 1976 to invest oil trade surpluses and now estimated at $875bn.

First, there are clear signs that the Asian economies are generating trade surpluses, instead of trade deficits.

The era of export-led growth, the era of growth fed by gigantic trade surpluses, cannot last in the world we are now entering.

Where once the country ran large trade surpluses, it now runs large deficits.

As the years went by, those trade surpluses just keep growing - and so did China's board of foreign assets.

Brazil imported more dairy products last year than it exported for the first time after five years of consecutive trade surpluses.

Flush with capital from its enormous trade surpluses, China has been on an investment spree, especially in developing countries.

It is inevitable that some countries, such as those with natural resources, will accumulate trade surpluses.

From 1946 until 1980, American households saved 8-10% of their disposable income and the country usually ran small trade surpluses.

Given the rapidly growing reserves and trade surpluses both in major Asian exporters (China, Japan, Korea) and elsewhere (India, Russia)

After half a century of trade surpluses, Japan is now in deficit