The notion: China keeps the value of its yuan too low, which gives it an unfair trade advantage.
Would you support an effort to revise, perhaps even revoke, those -- that bilateral treaty, which gives China such an unfair trade advantage?
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But we have said consistently that we believe that the RMB is undervalued, that that provides China with an unfair trade advantage, and that we expect change.
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Correspondents say the development could disgruntle China, whose trade advantage over the US has become a focus of Mr Obama's battle for re-election against Republican contender Mitt Romney.
But there are fears that a prolonged and deliberate weakening of the Japanese yen could spark a currency war, if other countries that trade or compete with Japan were to also take steps to devalue their currency, in order to gain a trade advantage.
The question was whether those not engaged in legitimate trade were taking advantage of special, restricted access to China's official foreign-exchange market set up for those who need yuan to buy mainland goods.
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Trade encourages nations to specialize in their "comparative advantage" and trade with other nations that specialize in theirs.
Given the enormous value advantage that Trade Show Internet offers clients and its attractive cash flows, it looks like Burstein has put his actuarial skills to good use.
U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk warned about other countries taking advantage of the crisis to wiggle out of trade agreements.
Is there a trade-off between taking advantage of good times and providing shock absorbers for bad ones?
If we take advantage of our trade and integration to create more and better jobs in both countries.
"If Latin America were able to take advantage of free trade for its produce, the region's external debt would disappear, " he said.
Not a single thing out there provides an advantage without some trade-off.
Technically, December gold futures bulls still have the overall near-term technical advantage as prices trade choppy and sideways at higher price levels.
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But the country has no big natural resources aside from water 40% of all Central Asian water originates in Kirgizstan's mountains and it is too small a market and too remote a place geographically to accrue much advantage from foreign trade.
They argue that the legal export trade from Canada is being taken advantage of by criminals who use false Canadian permits to export the pelts from around two hundred Russian bears each year.
The 100-year-old UPS now has a broader array of services, including freight forwarding, heavy airfreight and logistics planning, and is taking full advantage of burgeoning international trade to fuel growth, says Bank of America analyst Scott D.
The 100-year-old UPS now has a broader array of services, including freight forwarding, heavy airfreight and logistics planning, and is taking full advantage of burgeoning international trade to fuel growth, says Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) analyst Scott D.
In the world wine trade, the Aussies have an unfair advantage: weather.
No doubt this is to take advantage of iPad and iPhone trade-ins, PlayStation Vitas and the overall rise of unlocked devices.
Our Treasury mandarins forget that the inflation we suffer at home will cost us more than whatever temporary advantage we gain on our trade accounts from a devalued dollar.
However, other groups, such as trade unions, could potentially neutralise the advantage of those private Republican fortunes because they, too, may spend unlimited amounts in the name of free speech, as long as this is not co-ordinated with any candidate.
Yet, ironically, it's illegal immigrants who usually don't travel back and forth who catch the blame from those who -- like some foreign countries, regarding the trade issue -- are shamelessly taking advantage of this crisis to serve their interests.
"Brazil has got to look for new markets because the traditional markets have problems and that may hit South Africa where it hurts the most but that is the nature of international economic trade, it is about taking competitive advantage where you have it, " he said.
Question: are you admitting that the concept of comparative advantage is necessary to vindicate free trade?
Free trade is built on the law of comparative advantage: everyone benefits when everyone can offer what they do best and most efficiently.
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In fact, capitalism entails neither robber barons nor kings nor obsequious serfs but independent beings who trade the products of their effort to mutual advantage.
According to Ricardo's theory, both countries will be better off if each specialises in the industry where it has a comparative advantage, and if the two trade with one another.
In essence, the theory of comparative advantage says that it pays countries to trade because they are different.
We don't need folks who during election time suddenly are worrying about trade practices, but before the election are taking advantage of unfair trading practices.
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