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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to name China a currency manipulator on his first day in the White House.There only one problem it not true anymore. China, the world second-biggest economy behind the United States, hasn ;t been pushing down its currency to benefit Chine
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yeezy he law targeting manipulators requires the U.S. spend a year negotiating a solution before it can retaliate.Trump spent much of the campaign blaming China for America economic woes. And it true that the U.S-China trade relationship is lopsided. China sells a lot more to the United States than it buys. The resulting trade deficit in goods amounted to a staggering $289 billion through the first 10 months of 2016.But in fact, for the past couple of years China has be
stanley cup en intervening in markets to prop up its currency, the yuan, not push it lower.It went a step further on Thursday, watering down the significance of the dollar and adding 11 additional currencies in a foreign-exchange basket, according to a document released by the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.WHAT DOES CURRENCY HAVE TO DO WITH THE TRADE GAP When China yuan falls against the U.S. dollar, Chinese products become cheaper in the U.S. market and American products become more costly in China.So the U.S. Treasury Department monitors China for signs it is manipulating the yuan lower. Treasury has guidelines for putting countries on its cur
