[lbo-talk] Lure of the US home market

[Marvin Gandall]

Doug writes:
>
> 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.

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Do you or anyone else on the list know of any studies which collate the 
trade stats so as to confirm or refute the statement above? Couldn't find 
anything using a whole combination of keywords on Google, although, as you 
know, there is a ton of scattered data.