Canada vs. China: Which Economy has a Larger Impact on the U.S.?

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China may have been getting the most press over the past few weeks, but Canada isn't doing too well either. Here is a quote from the Financial Post:

Canada counts for 19 per cent of total U.S. exports, followed by Mexico at 16 percent, each more than double China’s 7 per cent share. And the Canadian dollar is sliding much faster: It has fallen about 12 per cent against the U.S. dollar since the start of the year, while China’s yuan has dropped just about 3 per cent.

Since Canada is the largest U.S export market, does Canada's current situation spell more trouble (in the U.S.) than China's decline of late?

More from the Financial Post Why Canada is a bigger problem for the U.S. economy than China

 

China is a huge driver of the global economy and will have significant impact on trade flows outside of just US-China and a slowdown in the Chinese economy would have contagion effects in Europe/LatAm/ROW which also affect the US obviously. Canada does not have the same global scale so it's more complicated than just looking at US imports/exports in trying to figure out which is the bigger driver.

 

Or is the Canadian drop a result of the Chinese drop? Canada being largely a resource exporter. Similar to Australia.

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China hands down. The whole global economy is structured around the 'Chimerican' economic system (America as the consumer/provider of liquidity; China as the manufacturer/provider of savings).

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