SINO-US TRADE IMBALANCE

Abstract

The Sino-US trade imbalance has become the most difficult problem of Sino-US bilateral economic relation; it is the blasting fuse of bilateral economic and trade frictions. This current situation results in the large Sino-US bilateral trade statistical gap that leads to the wrong understanding of the scale of bilateral trade imbalance. This article plans to analyze the factors of Sino-US statistical differences from the angle of trade statistics institution under the background of economic globalization. Firstly, it makes a preliminary discussion of relative content of origin rule and analyses the influences of origin rule to the comparability of foreign trade statistics. Thus, further discuss the factors of Sino-US trade imbalance from larger scale and angles to provide beneficial references for studying Sino-US bilateral trade statistical error problems.