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Yeah, do it smart. Post anonymously without any citations to back up your claims.

Do it smart!

http://www.worldstopexports.co...
http://www.worldstopexports.co...

I'd like to know why the US and Russia are trading uranium at all. Why are we trading uranium with each other? Do we send them natural uranium and they send it back to us enriched?

Yeah, do it smart. Post anonymously without any citations to back up your claims.

Do it smart!

http://www.worldstopexports.co...
http://www.worldstopexports.co...

I'd like to know why the US and Russia are trading uranium at all. Why are we trading uranium with each other? Do we send them natural uranium and they send it back to us enriched?

That statistic is misleading as fuck:

https://www.statista.com/stati...
http://www.worldstopexports.co...

China's car industry is *for the most part* a domestic industry. They don't export much period ($5B in auto exports in 2016 compared $151B for Germany and $55B for the US).

Of that tiny amount of exporting, the US is 9% of China's exports of automobiles. China mainly and mostly exports to the EU (20%). We're ranked just above Egypt for imports from China (WOOOOO!!?).

"4th largest" does not imply 1 - 3 were proportional. Nor does it imply China will give two shits about how much they export (if they mainly consume domestically).

Take your (trolling) or (lack of understanding) elsewhere.

France still plans to reduce nuclear to 50% - just not already by 2025 as planned by the old government.

http://www.mining-journal.com/...

While France exports a huge amount of electricity, this is mostly cheap surplus electricity at times of low demand. At times of high demand or many plants are down (e.g. during heat wave), it often critically depends on imports. In contrast, in the last years this was never the case for Germany.

http://energypost.eu/france-ca...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

But even in total, Germany is about to overtake France as the biggest electricity exporter - especially with all the trouble France had with its nuclear plants this year.

http://www.worldstopexports.co...
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/...
https://www.platts.com/latest-...

Out of interest, what did you think would happen with the Irish border?

Pretty much what is happening - the UK and the EU will do a deal.

Brexit has little ot do with that. ECHR is a separte thing and exiting the EU won't take us out of the ECHR. Also, Article 8, the right to a privacy?

Right to family life, inter alia.

102 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants we can't deport - More than 100 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants have beaten deportation under controversial "right to family life" laws in the past year.

Inside the EU the EU will no doubt argue that ECHR membership is a condition of EU membership

http://researchbriefings.parli...
"Opinions differ as to whether a Member State can withdraw from the European Convention and remain in the EU, given that the EU Treaties specifically refer to the human rights guarantees in the Council of Europe instrument."

In the PDF file the EU Commission claimed

"Respect for fundamental rights as guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights is an explicit obligation for the Union under Article 6(2) [now Article 6(3)] of the Treaty on European Union, and the Court of Justice has held that the Convention is of especial importance for determining the fundamental rights that must be respected by the Member States as general principles of law when they act within the scope of Union law. The rights secured by the Convention are among the rights guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In the negotiations for the accession of new Union members, respect for the Convention and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights is treated as part of the Union acquis. Any Member State deciding to withdraw from the Convention and therefore no longer bound to comply with it or to respect its enforcement procedures could, in certain circumstances, raise concern as regards the effective protection of fundamental rights by its authorities. Such a situation, which the Commission hopes will remain purely hypothetical, would need to be examined under Articles 6 and 7 of the Treaty on European Union."

Article 7 is about suspending countries from the EU

http://www.lisbon-treaty.org/w...

"Where a determination under paragraph 2 has been made, the Council, acting by a qualified majority, may decide to suspend certain of the rights deriving from the application of the Treaties to the Member State in question, including the voting rights of the representative of the government of that Member State in the Council."

I.e, the EU Commission is making a clear threat it might suspend UK voting rights, such as they are given we're the state most often in minority, if the UK leaves the ECHR but stays in the EU.

False, the EU is our largest single export market. Second that will likely involve having weaker regulations on product safety, e.g . cars.

http://www.worldstopexports.co...

US is the top country. The EU is not a country, even though it wants to be one. And, like I say I don't expect the EU to impose tariffs on UK exports. And even if they did we've got a trade deficit and using the tariffs we collect on imports to pay the tariffs of exporters is not against WTO rules.

I.e. we could get lower tariffs on exports to non EU countries with most likely no net tariffs on exports to EU ones.

If we have the power to sign our o

I stand corrected. I was not aware that china switched from being one of the biggest exporters (it is still rank 11) to _the_ biggest importer.

http://www.worldstopexports.co...

Anyway, your nuclear rant is as pointless as always :D

I live in Germany.

The amount of stuff we get from China is neglectible,

And most certainly not "cleaning stuff for the kitchen" ... or a part for my car.

90% of the stuff I have is made in Europe, and the remaining 10% are not from China but all over the world.

The iPhone in question is _assembled_ in China. You can google who is making the parts. Hint: China is not famous for semi conductor factories.

Willful ignorance != myth.
Yeah, so: you failed to give me an example about what the USA are importing from China.
We import food.

Cloth we import from elsewhere, partly in Asia, partly not ... easy to google. Definitely not China. Because: again, China is not famous for its clothing exports.

Regarding to this page: http://www.worldstopexports.co... China is exporting about 3.5% of its "trade" in cloth.

The US exports lots of stuff. Here are the top 10 categories of exports. Machines, electronics, aircraft, vehicles, oil, medical technology, plastics, gems/metals, pharmaceuticals, chemicals. The US is the second largest export economy in the world behind China. In 2014 the US exported roughly $1.45 Trillion in goods

That may all be true, but neither the USA or China are anywhere near the top of the list when it comes to exports per capita. That actually make a lot of sense though, as smaller economies are more likely to have certain industries that simply aren't present in them, and to have both larger imports and exports per capita than larger nations. At the end of the day, the exact number for exports doesn't really matter. What matters is, as was pointed out by Type44Q, whether you have a surplus or deficit. I don't know if this is included in statistics that are released, but for an even better picture you should also include repatriated monies, such as profits from overseas subsidiaries coming into the country, or foreign workers sending money home to their families abroad.

Apparently you're unaware of a certain multi-decade trade imblance that completely moots your point but regardless, they're more than welcome to tax the shit out of our exports which would be.... what, shale oil and shitty movies??

The US exports lots of stuff. Here are the top 10 categories of exports. Machines, electronics, aircraft, vehicles, oil, medical technology, plastics, gems/metals, pharmaceuticals, chemicals. The US is the second largest export economy in the world behind China. In 2014 the US exported roughly $1.45 Trillion in goods.

So Trump being the asshole he is promising to be and starting a trade war will hurt Boeing, Caterpillar, GM, Ford, Intel, etc. Not to mention all of us when the prices of everything goes up in the ensuing trade war. Tariffs do not make things better. They save a few jobs at the expense of most everyone else.

I think this is a mixture of forward thinking and xenophobia. China is a major importer of industrial robots, and Japan is a major exporter of industrial robots. http://www.worldstopexports.co...

For most basic manufacturing jobs cheap labor can't compete with good automation.

All resource extraction was less than 10% of the Canadian economy in 2014, smaller than manufacturing and real estate.

I don't really have a great picture of what parts of the economy drive properity, but while I can see that healthy manufacturing can lead to everyone having more stuff, I do wonder how "real estate" enters into it. Real estate can change hands, and go up (or down) in value, but nobody is making any more of it, so having a healthy real estate "sector" would seem to be more of an indicator of prosperity rather than a creator of it.

In any case, if you have any links you can share explaining that resoure extraction isn't such a big deal to Canada I would be interested in learning.

It does seem like oil is Canada's biggest export (about 27% of the total). Vehicles are #2 at just under 13%. Combined with Precious metals (#4), Plastics (#6), Wood (#7), and Aluminum (#9) that makes up about 39% for "resources", while the Vehicles, Machines, Electronics and Aircrafts add up to about 25%, so it looks like "resources" are significantly larger than "manufacturing" on an export basis at least.

One can see that dropping the price of the biggest export by 70% is a pretty significant event. All other things staying the same one could imagine oil going from number 1 to number 3, droping the overall export total by 80 or 90 billion dollars, or around 20% of the total.

These look like 2014 figures:
http://www.worldstopexports.co...
1 Oil: US$128.6 billion (27.2% of total exports)
2 Vehicles: $59.7 billion (12.6%)
3 Machines, engines, pumps: $32.6 billion (6.9%)
4 Gems, precious metals, coins: $20.3 billion (4.3%)
5 Electronic equipment: $13.6 billion (2.9%)
6 Plastics: $13.2 billion (2.8%)
7 Wood: $12.7 billion (2.7%)
8 Aircraft, spacecraft: $12.4 billion (2.6%)
9 Aluminum: $8.9 billion (1.9%)
10 Cereals: $8.7 billion (1.8%)

Germany needs overcapacity because wind and solar have pretty crappy capacity factors.

Year on year Germany exports to Danemark, Luxembourg, Holland, Poland, Austria and Switzerland, and imports from France, the Czech republic and Sweden. (Yes, Germany does export more than it imports).

In 2014 Germany exported 77.1 TWh, for which it earned 4591 million dollars.
France exported 37 TWh, for which it earned 3234 million dollars.

France is getting paid 46% more per Watt because it's selling when people need it's electricity, not when it's forced to because it has overproduction.

(Sources: http://www.worldstopexports.com/electricity-exports-country/3315 and
https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange.htm)

Weapons, entertainment, and food are pretty much the bulk of American exports.

Actually, no. In 2013, the US was the second largest exporter of arms ($6.2 billion), after Russia ($8.3 billion). And because you probably won't read the linked article, I should mention that these numbers include the estimated value of arms given as foreign aid. But those numbers are dwarfed by the real heavyweights.

Top ten US exports in 2013:

1. Machines, engines, pumps: US$219,566,232,000 (13.5% of total exports)
2. Electronic equipment: $171,966,197,000 (10.6%)
3. Oil: $157,213,437,000 (9.7%)
4. Vehicles: $135,797,903,000 (8.4%)
5. Aircraft, spacecraft: $124,831,567,000 (7.7%)
6. Medical, technical equipment: $84,879,104,000 (5.2%)
7. Gems, precious metals, coins: $65,522,480,000 (4.0%)
8. Plastics: $63,025,216,000 (3.9%)
9. Pharmaceuticals: $43,967,977,000 (2.7%)
10. Organic chemicals: $42,255,264,000 (2.6%)

http://www.worldstopexports.co...
United States Top 10 Exports

The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in American global shipments during 2014. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of US overall exports.

Machines, engines, pumps: US$219,566,232,000 (13.5% of total exports)
Electronic equipment: $171,966,197,000 (10.6%)
Oil: $157,213,437,000 (9.7%)
Vehicles: $135,797,903,000 (8.4%)
Aircraft, spacecraft: $124,831,567,000 (7.7%)
Medical, technical equipment: $84,879,104,000 (5.2%)
Gems, precious metals, coins: $65,522,480,000 (4.0%)
Plastics: $63,025,216,000 (3.9%)
Pharmaceuticals: $43,967,977,000 (2.7%)
Organic chemicals: $42,255,264,000 (2.6%)



Perhaps they are priming to give Kiev some assistance with armored vehicle based terrorist/separatists/greenmen/ignorantrussians.