University Daily Kansan, January 23, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
U.S.-China trade hits all-time high
By United Press International
PEKING — Trade between the United States and China hit a record $8.1 billion in 1984, a 50.6 percent year, announced yesterday.
China's exports to the United States totaled $2.3 billion and its imports amounted to $3.8 billion, leaving China with a $1.5 billion trade deficit, said Huang Wenjian, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade.
U. S. Embassy sources confirmed the $6.1 billion trade figure but disputed the Chinese deficit calculation, saying American estimates show the two-way trade was roughly balanced at $3 billion for each side.
"This is somewhat of a game that they're playing to deliberately distort the figures to show a (U.S.) president," a senior Western diplomat said.
PEKING WILL USE the trade deficit, the diplomat said, as a pressure tactic in attempts to extract concessions from Washington in talks over textiles and other trade negotiations.
The Chinese statistics omitted major trade categories and included
insurance and freight costs for imports, but not for exports, the diplomat said.
"That's a lot of traffic . . . perhaps as much as a billion dollars," he said.
In addition, China's practice of adding freight and insurance costs to its imports raises the merchandise figure from 7 to 10 percent, he said, exposing statistics refocus only the actual cost of the merchandise.
U. S.-China trade totaled $4 billion in 1983.
THE UNITED STATES is China's third largest trading partner, after Japan and Hong Kong, and its trade with China now exceeds that of the European Economic Community.
The Chinese trade spokesman said he was unable to explain the discrepancy between Chinese and U.S. trade statistics.
China became a net cotton exporter in 1984 and boosted its sales of edible oil and petroleum, the Chinese trade spokesman said. It curtailed grain imports and stepped up purification of synthetic fiber, televisions, automobiles, steel, raw chemicals, chemical fertilizer and timber.
China's global trade hit a record of slightly less than $50 billion, compared to 1983's $40.7 billion.
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