And for which country, the U.S. has the biggest current trade surplus and biggest trade deficit?
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Trade data: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0004.html\n\nBy country: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/top/index.html#top_partners
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USA: capitalist, and produces more agricultural products than the next two countries combined\n\nChina: socialist, and mines significantly more material from the earth than any other country...\n\nI'm not sure what it all means anyways...
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The World Bank's data is at the first link.  Click on "Balance of Payments."  You'll need either Excel or Acrobat Reader.\n\nYou can find its major trading partners at the second link.  Scroll down.\n(Exports - partners:   US 21.2%, Japan 13.3%, Australia 8.4%, China 7.5%, Singapore 5.3%, Germany 5% (2005); Imports - partners:  China 16.3%, Singapore 12.8%, Taiwan 11.7%, Japan 10.4%, South Korea 9.9%, Thailand 6.8% (2005)  )\n\nAnd you can use the World Bank main data page, and the CIA Factbook main page, to search out the other stuff.
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Every country is in debt. We are the richest country in the World.
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Michigan.\n\nSure, lots of it is water, but it is largest in total area east of the Mississippi.\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108355.html
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it's also called an "unfavorable balance of trade"
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The biggest gorilla can do what it wants.  It would actually help the US economy to repeal trade agreements with developing nations that don't follow the same workers rights since the US education system is still based on an industrial economic platform.
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No, it really is because G.W. Bush, seen from anywhere outside the USA, is an obvious idiot. He has screwed up the national debt beyond belief and attacked countries without cause.
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Hi!\nAmerica world's biggest economy today would continue to be big for many years. However, what may be particularly interesting that it may not remain there forever.\nLets look at the BRICs report, published by Goldman Sachs... http://www.gs.com/insight/research/reports/99.pdf\nI guess that kind of gives you an insight of the economies of the future; wherein China and India look promising. China, as a matter of fact is said to displace US in less than 50 years. \nA Giant like the US cannot become a part of a fleet of mice... So the way I look at it; US would continue to be a (mark the difference, "a" and not "the") dominating economy; but would have some good company of friends coming in from Asia!\nHope it makes sense to ya! :)\n\nEurope and Japan don't look very promising in long term... Their populations are aging fast which isn't a great sign for the next many decades.
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I guess Canada may have what appears to be the most land mass, if you count the ice, but don't  forget brazil is pretty darn big too. I think it rivals USA in size. USA probably has most people, if that is what you mean by "Largest"\n after global warming Canada may melt down quite a bit
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I couldn't understand what is it exactly what you are asking. But i will do my best to give and honest answer that might shed some light on you.\n\nThe idea of a negative effect of the trade deficit has been discussed thoroughly by economists and it seems like we haven't got a proper answer yet. Is it good or bad? we don't know yet. WE know deficit and surpluses are favorable and unfavorable.\n\nAn expanding U.S. economy fuels demand by American consumers and producers to buy more imports as well as domestically produced goods and services.\nRising U.S. domestic output, in turn, attracts the foreign investment that finances an expanding U.S. current account deficit. \nIn contrast, slowing U.S. domestic demand not only depresses U.S. output and employment growth — but also lessens demand for imports and the inflow of foreign investment. \n\nIn addition to the uncertain causality, the evidence also does not address the question of how persistent and rising current account deficits may affect the U.S. economy in the long run.\nThe "sustainability" of the U.S. current account deficit has been much debated among the experts. But whatever negative impact the deficit may have in the long run, there is no evidence that it poses a drag on the U.S. economy in the short run. \n\nWhy does all this matter? The answer is simple. Misperceptions about the U.S. trade deficit and the economy can tempt U.S. policymakers to "do something" about the deficit to show that they are concerned.\n\nFrom my point of view i would say that a trade deficit (just as a fiscal deficit) is a tool used by a country to do some economic policy.\n\noh, and that "natural market consequence" that you are looking for might be the exchange rates. A fall in the exchange rates will cause foreigners to buy more of our goods and us to buy less foreign goods.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1988-present)\n\ntry to find a answer in that site ..
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What port? United States?
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I believe whoever told you that is confusing Japan and China. The total US debt held by foreign countries is $1.886 trillion, of which Japan held $1.2 trillion as of March 2005 and China a mere $223.5 billion at the same time.
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Cuba\n\nThe Russians found that communism sucks. China is moving away from communism. North Korea and Cuba are the only real commies left and both their economies are terrible. Vietnam is also moving away from communism.
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I heard 25% of our deficit is owed to Japan and China.  I don't know the exact amount per country.
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Cuba and North Korea (currently) and China (in the past).