"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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In article %AXHi.90$A55.83@pd7urf2no, "Noozer"
wrote:


Of course the Chinese will have a smaller percentage of the DOLLAR value
of
imports... their cheap prices is what brings it in.
Tells you nothing. Then you equate a car imported from final assembly
in Canada the same as a 10 cent trinket from China.

No, you compare how many "trinkets" are made in Canada as compared to how
many are brought in from China. Ditto for the cars. How many a built
domestically and how many imported? (Of course, then you'd have to argue
origin of manufacture for the content of the vehicles.)


If 90% of all imports only accounts for 10% of the dollar value of
imports
then dollar value isn't a very good measuring stick.

Of course it is. You are looking at dollar value because that is
the measurement. You don't have a current accounts deficit of units, but
of dollars.

So, if one consumer purchases a single Canadian made shovel for $50 and ten
consumers purchase a Chinese made shovel for $5 the market is even? I think
not. 1 Canadian shovel does not equal 10 Chinese shovels.