Such a tax would not have prevented the US China trade imbalance.

In fact, the trade imbalance is more complicated than the currency issue per se.

China s main trade partners are deeply worried about the consequences of this continuing imbalance.

The industry is considered an export business, because it significantly reduces the country's external trade imbalance.

Some have suggested that the trade imbalance is related to China s currency peg to the US dollar.

Any focus on trade imbalances thus should center on the major global imbalance that of the US.

These data demonstrate conclusively that the exchange rate centered theory of the trade imbalance does not match reality.

Investment is high, but further investment growth risks misallocating money, so reductions in China s trade imbalance may be hard to achieve.

European leaders are arguing, with some justification, that their exporters are paying the price for America s huge trade imbalance with Asian and oil exporting countries.

China s large external surplus above 10 of GDP in 2007 has narrowed significantly in recent years, with the trade imbalance falling to about 2.5 of GDP.

Financial and economic imbalance can lead to dangerous fiscal imbalance, as tax revenues plunge and social insurance and bailout expenditures rise.

Second, China s external imbalance may also worsen.

Unchecked power will lead to imbalance and abuse.

These data demonstrate conclusively that the exchange rate centered theory of the trade imbalance does not match reality. China s economy over the past two years has become much more balanced in its external trade relationships, despite there being no significant exchange rate adjustments.

Redressing this imbalance requires a focus on key infrastructure.

Economically, the US and China are mirror images, opposite sides of a massive global imbalance. Americans spend too much and save too little, leaving a 250 billion trade deficit financed by other countries.

For now, the large bilateral trade imbalance has exacerbated US China tensions, and can be safely reduced only by changes in behavior on both sides or, unsafely, though a dangerous crisis driven correction.

Third, there has been significant improvement in China s external imbalance.

Women's involvement in the economy presented a picture of imbalance.

This US Chinese tandem will run far from smoothly, and will do little but ameliorate crises and periods of serious economic and political confrontation, like that which is currently looming over the bilateral trade imbalance.

This is the forward looking version of the global imbalance issue.

One submission said that staffing imbalance created partiality towards particular issues.

It can be expected that this imbalance would be corrected eventually.

Some speakers said that the imbalance between contributions to regular and other resources needed to be corrected, and called on donors to address the imbalance through predictable multi year pledges.

In terms of brokering a climate deal, this imbalance is good news.

But the disappearance underscores the ongoing imbalance between economic and political reform.

All those problems contribute to the imbalance, and China should fix them.

That entails correction of the current inequity and imbalance in its composition.

European leaders are arguing, with some justification, that their exporters are paying the price for America s huge trade imbalance with Asian and oil exporting countries. If the US goes into recession, the acrimony will get a lot worse.

China s behavior, it was alleged, was the source of today s huge global imbalance.

Changes to correct the imbalance between presidential and parliamentary power are, indeed, needed.

The saving investment imbalance is fundamental, and it alone determines a country s external position.

The secretariat is confronted with an imbalance between the mandated workload and staff resources.

Although the goods and services that travelers buy may cost less in the US than abroad, the overall price of American products is still too high to erase the enormous trade imbalance between the US and the rest of the world.

But Europe can take other steps to redress or adapt to the looming demographic imbalance.

Only such an expansion can rectify the existing imbalance in the composition of the Council.

It also seeks to address the fundamental imbalance in the composition of the Security Council.

Another aspect of the recruitment problem was the imbalance in the composition of the Secretariat.

If Fe2 and Ti4 ions are substituted for Al3 , localized areas of charge imbalance are created.

In general, there is a wide gender imbalance between males (75, 4 ) and females (24,6 ), respectively.

BEIJING Throughout 2010, China was criticized by the United States Congress (and many others) for manipulating its currency in order to maintain an advantage for exports, and thus preserve its trade surplus. China s behavior, it was alleged, was the source of today s huge global imbalance.

Put another way, the global imbalance could be corrected more efficiently by addressing other, more fundamental factors.

It is important to ensure that the outcome in September does not result in a similar imbalance.

Now finally, we can measure Earth's energy imbalance precisely by measuring the heat content in Earth's heat reservoirs.

But it is the dichotomized nature of their economies and finances that represents Africa s most intractable structural imbalance.