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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 moreJuly 28, 2008 3:18 pm - 18 Comments -
$1.5 billion trade debt with little old Singapore. China is next - by frog
I said one of the outstanding questions around preferential trade agreement with China was the economic impact it would have on New Zealanders. In 2001 New Zealand signed a preferential trade agreement with Singapore. Check out what it did for our balance of trade: TRADE WITH SINGAPORE Merchandise exports ($ m) Merchandise imports ($m) Merchandise [...] read moreMarch 20, 2008 11:47 am - 13 Comments
