Impact of Chinese Exchange Rate Policy and its Trade Balance with the United States

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: B, Oxford University, language: English, abstract: From 1993, united states-china trade deficit has been increasing with the gap becoming bigger. Widening imbalance in bilateral trade has caused a number of concerns. This dissertation uses both secondary data and primary data to examine Chinese exchange rate policy and its trade balance with United States. Consequently, it was found that when statistical data was adjusted between 1989 and 2005, the trade imbalance of United States - china trade is not as united states report but occurs inevitably due to economic development. In addition, occurrence of trade deficit may not b a profit loss. Moreover, United States consumers and investors are benefiting from the trade between United States and china. According to the results, the china-united states debate on Chinese exchange rate debates are merely differences in perception in sequencing Chinese adoption of policies of making the exchange rate system flexible and reducing capital control.