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commentators have lostsight of important variations in these na-tions'saving and investment behavior.These differences ultimately sustain thelarge,persistent,mirror-image trade im-balances of both countries.  \nFair and free market access is impor-tant to producers and consumers in Ja-pan and the United States alike.Econo-mists have long acknowledged thatfree trade can enhance both nations'standard of living.But we should real-ize that policies to pry open Japanesemarkets or to deny Japan access to ourmarkets will have few lasting effectson either country's overall trade bal-ance.Trade surpluses and deficits areproper,sustainable,and mutually bene-ficial responses to disparate saving andinvestment patterns among nations.  \n# ■ Balance of Payments\n\nThe U.S.balance of payments recordsall transactions between U.S.residentsand the rest of the world.These fallinto two broad categories:the currentaccount,which consists mainly of tradein goods and services,and the capitalaccount,which includes alltypes of fi-nancial transactions.One can inter-pret current and capital account itemsas cross-border claims on existing andfuture world output,respectively.  \nAs the name implies,the balance of pay-ments always balances (see box).Every  \n# Are the Japanese to Blamefor Our Trade Deficit?\n\ninternational transaction creates both adebit and a credit entry in the ledger.If,for example,an American buys a Japa-nese car and pays for it with a checkdrawn against a domestic bank,the bal-ance of payments records the importedcar as a debit in the trade account andlists the Japanese claim on the U.S.bank as a credit in the capital account.Essentially,we have imported a car andexported ownership of the deposit.  \nShould the Japanese use the bank ac-count to acquire something else,likeU.S.corporate stocks or Treasury secu-rities,additional offsetting debits andcredits will enter the balance of pay-ments.Suppose that Japan buys Ameri-can rice with its claimon the U.S.bank.The balance of payments will recordthe export of rice as a credit item in thetrade account,and the reduction in theJapanese claim on the U.S.bank as adebit item in the capital account.Essen-tially,we have exported rice and reim-ported ownership of that bank deposit.  \nBecause of the double-entry nature ofthe accounts,surpluses or deficits canexist only in a subset of the transac-tionsMost often,analysts concentrateon the current account.Last year,theUnited States ran an estimated currentaccount deficit of $109 billion.A coun-try that imports more than it exportsmust pay for the excess by drawingdown its financial claims on the rest ofthe world or by providing financialclaims on itself to the rest of the world.In doing so last year,the United Statesrecorded a$109 billion capital account  \nJune 15,1994  \nDespite commonly expressed com-plaints about the persistent U.S.-Japanese trade imbalance,restrictingJapan's access to our markets willnot erase the trade deficit or surplusof either nation.Instead,trade imbal-ances are sustainable,beneficial,andproper reflections of domestic savingand investment decisions.  \nsurplus or,in economists'terms,aS109 billion inflow of foreign capital.  \nAs the counterpart to persistent U.S.cur-rent account deficits throughout the1980s,foreigners continued to acquire fi-nancial claims on the United States.By1989,foreign assets in our nation ex-ceeded U.S.assets abroad,making Amer-ica a debtor country.Atthe end of 1992,the last year for which data are available,U.S.debts equaled S612 billion—ap-proximately 10percent of our GDP.  \n■ Saving and Investment PatternsEconomists often focus on the current ac-count as ameasure of the overall balanceof payments because it and the associatedforeign capital inflows draw attention tosaving and investment pattems.Thevalue of any country's production (itsGDP)exactly equals both its nat","cbCaisYmJRz8GKHH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisYmJRz8GKHH","pdf",1282876,"English","# Balance of Payments\n## Are 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