Now shopping mall giant (Dalian) Wanda, owned by Chinaâs richest man Wang Jianlin, and Vanke, the worldâs biggest residential real estate developer, founded by the mountaineering-loving Wang Shi, have âstunned the capital markets,â in the words of Chinese news site The Paper, by announcing a âstrategic partnership.â.
The second macroeconomic consideration of increased imports is the impact on exchange rates. As we have shown in the previous section, as U.S. consumers increase their consumption of imports, the supply of dollars in foreign exchange markets rises.
Ecuador was the United States' 38th largest supplier of goods imports in 2016. 1  U.S. goods imports from Ecuador totaled $6.1 billion in 2016, down 18.8% ($1.4 billion) from 2015, and down up 14.6% from 2006.