International Trade : Treasury Assessments Have Not Found Currency Manipulation, but Concerns about Exchange Rates Continue

The Dept. of the Treasury is required to annually assess whether countries manipulate their currencies for trade advantage & to report on specific aspects of exchange rate policy. Some have been concerned that China & Japan may have maintained undervalued currencies, with adverse U.S. impacts. Congress mandated that Treasury provide additional info. about currency manipulation assessments. This report examines: Treasury's process for conducting its assessments & recent results, part'y. for China & Japan; the extent to which Treasury has met legislative reporting requirements; experts' views on whether or by how much China's currency is undervalued; & the implications of a revaluation of China's currency for the U.S. Charts & tables.Yager, Loren is the author of 'International Trade : Treasury Assessments Have Not Found Currency Manipulation, but Concerns about Exchange Rates Continue', published 2005 under ISBN 9781422300626 and ISBN 1422300625.