Resumen

ECHENIQUE ROMERO, Ximena Valentina. El déficit comercial de Estados Unidos frente a la entrada de China a su mercado. Méx.cuenca pac [online]. 2012, vol.1, n.2, pp.63-87. ISSN 2007-5308.

The primary focus of this article is to analyze the causes of U.S. trade deficit throughout the last two decades. This deficit is studied from the macroeconomic and structural perspective, without covering the years of the last century financial crisis that weakened the growth of U.S. trade deficit. This article exhibits the shift from Japan to China as the most imbalanced bilateral trade relationship for the United States, focusing on the possible causes of China’s increasing participation in U.S. trade deficit. These facts are classified into exogenous and endogenous in order to establish the uniqueness of China’s presence in the U.S. market. Finally, this paper presents a comparison of revealed comparative advantage indices among the major economies of East Asia, China and the United States to expose the regional dynamics that helps China to remain a leading exporter.

Palabras llave : The United States; East Asia; China; trade deficit; comparative advantage.