美国贸易逆差与经济增长相辅相成探析

Analysis on the Trade Deficit Supplements with Economic Increase Each Other in the U.S.

美国的贸易逆差和美国经济增长相辅相成。美国贸易逆差持续扩大的背后是大量廉价商品的涌入和大量廉价资本的流入,它们降低了美国的通货膨胀率、增进了消费者的福利并加速了产业结构的升级,弥补了美国的投资-储蓄缺口,在一定程度上促进了美国的经济增长。而经济的稳定增长刺激了消费需求,又使美国贸易逆差进一步扩大。在经济全球化背景下,美国在发挥自己美元地位、资本市场以及信息技术等比较优势的同时,充分利用了他国的劳动力和资本要素并将其转化为自己的比较利益。

The trade deficit supplements with economy increase each other in the U.S.. Behind the persistent enlargement of the U.S. trade deficit, mass cheap commodities and a great deal of cheap capital entered into U.S.. They reduced the U,S, inflation rate, increased the welfare of con- sumers, accelerated the U.S. industry upgrading and made up the invest-saving gap, and boost the U.S. economy increase to a certain extent, The steady increase of the economy stimulated the con- sumption demand, and then made the more enlargement of the trade deficit, Under the background of economic globalization, at the time of exerting its own comparative advantage such as dollars sta- tus, capital market and information technology, U.S. also took full advantage of other countries＇ cap- ital and labor force factors and transformed them into its own comparative benefits.