On Aug 12, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
> Further to the recent discussion about US market access as a
> foreign policy
> instrument, this from an article by Floyd Norris in today's NYT on the
> soaring volume of Chinese exports:
>
> "And while the United States is still the world’s No. 1 exporter,
> that is
> nothing compared with its dominance of the other end of the trade
> equation.
> In the first half of this year, it imported more than China and
> Germany put
> together, and three times as much as Japan."
>
> No indication of the source of the data
Export data usually comes from the WTO or the IMF.
Doug