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The US-China trade imbalance is driven mainly by capital flows, not tariffs or trade deficits.

Drawn from what Samuel Hammond said

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tariffs Taxes on imports: whether they close a trade deficit, what they do to prices, and what they are really for.

What Samuel Hammond actually said

  1. Samuel Hammond Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation
    Tariffs and trade deficits are a distraction from the deeper source of the US-China current account imbalance, namely capital flows.

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