Microeconomics with Connect Access Card
Microeconomics with Connect Access Card
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ISBN: 9781259278556
Author: Campbell McConnell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 24, Problem 1DQ
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The importance of an international trade to US and its most importing trading partner.

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International trade is the trading relationship between nations without borders. The international trade is such that the import and export of goods and services take place between the nations. The international trade allows the country to focus on the production of goods and services in which, they have the comparative advantage and export them to the top world market and import the goods and services from the countries, which produce the goods and services in which, the domestic country does not have any comparative advantage. This helps the country to maximize the benefit of the domestic country from consumption.

The importance of the international trade in the case of US, can be identified by looking into the share of the international trade in the US GDP. When we look at the share of the international GDP, around 14 percent of the US GDP is contributed by the international trade. It is a very small share when compared to that of the other industrialized countries such as Belgium and Netherlands, which have nearly 80 percent of GDP that is raised from the international trade.

The most important or the major trading partner of US is Canada. They were exporting 15 percent of the US imports and importing 20 percent of the US exports in the year, 2012. The easy access to markets and the lower transportation distance, all that helped the two top countries to become the major trading partners.

China was known to be the country with which, US had the largest trade deficit in the year, 2012. China was producing goods and services at cheaper costs, and it allowed the country to capture the world demand towards its products. This leads to the increased imports from China to US along with the shifting of many production houses from US to China. In regards to this, the total deficit that US had with China was a whopping $315 billion in the year, 2012.

Economics Concept Introduction

Concept introduction:

International trade: It is the trade between nations beyond borders. The market is open to the domestic players as well as the foreign players.

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