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    Putting it on the national credit card - by frog



    The trade deficit hit $1.9 billion today.  Which using one of those ‘bringing it down to a scale you can comprehend’ metaphors means that you owe someone overseas $475 dollars for the stuff you bought this year. You can add that debt to the rest of the money you own from similar size debts you [...] read more
    July 28, 2008 3:18 pm - 18 Comments
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    62,000 jobs or trade with China - by frog



    The latest statistics from our Overseas Merchandise Trade show that last year we exported $2.0 billion dollars worth of stuff to China. But we imported $5.6 billion dollars worth of stuff. That’s a total trade deficit of $3.6 billion with China alone (our trade deficit with the rest of the world tells a similar story) [...] read more
    March 24, 2008 1:19 pm - 28 Comments
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    $1.5 billion trade debt with little old Singapore. China is next - by frog



    I said one of the outstanding questions around preferential trade agreement with China was the economic impact it would have on New Zealanders. In 2001 New Zealand signed a preferential trade agreement with Singapore. Check out what it did for our balance of trade: TRADE WITH SINGAPORE Merchandise exports ($ m) Merchandise imports ($m) Merchandise [...] read more
    March 20, 2008 11:47 am - 13 Comments
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    Exporting climate change - by frog



    Statistics New Zealand’s release today of Overseas Merchandise Trade for the month of December 2007 reveals the incredible statistic that dairy exports (milk powder, butter and cheese) rose 76.9% from the previous December to exceed $1 billion for a single month, for the first time ever. Our third biggest export for the month of December [...] read more
    January 31, 2008 12:30 pm - 6 Comments