Economics 13th Edition by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, Russell Sobel, David Macpherson

Exercise 14

Several members of Congress have been highly critical of Japan and China because U.S. imports from these countries have persistently been substantially greater than our exports to them.
a. Under a flexible exchange rate system, is there any reason to expect that the imports from a given country will tend to equal the exports to that country?
b. Can you think of any reason why the United States might persistently run a trade deficit with these countries?