US Promotes "Market-Determined Exchange Rates" at WTO Forum; Translation: "China Float the Yuan"

In a move that is likely to get general agreement, yet go absolutely nowhere fast, United States Promotes Market-Determined Exchange Rates at World Trade Organization Forum.

Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Michael Punke and Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Monetary and Financial Policy Mark Sobel today began a two-day series of meetings at the World Trade Organization�s (WTO) seminar on the relationship between exchange rates and trade, where they will advocate for market-determined exchange rates as a foundation of an open global trading system.

U.S. participation in the WTO seminar is premised on the importance of trade liberalization and recognition that persistently misaligned exchange rates and competitive devaluations undercut an open trading system.

Ambassador Punke stated: "Real exchange rates that are aligned with fundamentals are a necessary foundation for the global trading system."

The discussion is useless. China will float the Yuan when it is ready and not before.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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