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A New Approach to Measuring the Trade Balance?

A New Approach to Measuring the Trade Balance?

Update: 2017-02-24
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Gary Clyde Hufbauer contends that a proposal under consideration in the Trump administration to change the way trade balances are measured would mislead the public by exaggerating the US trade deficit.
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A New Approach to Measuring the Trade Balance?

A New Approach to Measuring the Trade Balance?

Peterson Institute for International Economics