China’s Commercial Competitiveness and Misplaced U.S. Focus on its Exchange Rate

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Testimony

China’s Commercial Competitiveness and Misplaced U.S. Focus on its Exchange Rate

By Dr. Albert Keidel

Published on Feb 13, 2007

Source: Testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee

On February 13, 2007 in a hearing before the Trade Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, Carnegie Senior Associate Albert Keidel discussed how the United States should focus more on its commerical competitiveness with China than on the exchange rate issue.

Click here for the full written testimony.
Click here for the full oral testimony.

About the Author

Dr. Albert Keidel

Former Senior Associate, China Program

Keidel served as acting director and deputy director for the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Before joining Treasury in 2001, he covered economic trends, system reforms, poverty, and country risk as a senior economist in the World Bank office in Beijing.

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Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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