China United States Currency Converter

[Luke_Wilbur]

A Chinese official rejected U.S. pressure for an early end to China's currency controls and said Washington should take action on its soaring trade deficits instead of blaming other countries, state media reported Monday.

 

The deputy director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Wei Benhua, speaking Sunday at a forum of Asian political and business leaders, denied reports that Beijing plans to change its exchange rate policy by mid-2006, according to the reports.

 

The United States and other Chinese trade partners say China's fixed exchange rate for its currency, the yuan, is too low and gives Chinese exports an unfair price advantage.

 

They want Beijing to let the yuan trade freely on world markets.

 

"This (trade deficit) is your problem. You need to put your own house in order before you blame your neighbour,'' Wei said at the Boao Forum for Asia, according to the China Daily newspaper.

 

The newspaper said Wei's comments were "clearly directed at the U.S. Congress and its proposal to take punitive measures'' over China's currency policies.

 

Chinese leaders say they plan to let the yuan trade freely on world markets, but they say doing so immediately would damage the country's frail banks and financial industries.

 

"China has no time schedule for the reform,'' the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Wei as saying. The government "cannot decide a proper time until the basic conditions mature.''

 

Wei blamed the U.S. trade deficit on "a flawed US economic policy'' and said China would make currency decisions based on its own economic needs, the reports said.

 

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[Luke_Wilbur]

Here is a picture of the Chinese Yuan Renminbi.

[Guest WuLankai]

Monday, May 2, 2005

 

1.00 US Dollar = 8.28650 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1.00 Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY) = 0.12068 US Dollar (USD)

 

Median price = 8.26650 / 8.28650 (bid/ask)

Minimum price = 8.26650 / 8.28650

Maximum price = 8.26650 / 8.28650

[Guest Allison Preiss]

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today applauded passage of the Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act, legislation offered in the U.S. House of Representatives by Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin based on earlier legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH). Earlier this year, Brown joined a bipartisan group of senators to introduce Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act in the U.S. Senate.

 

"Chinese currency manipulation undermines Ohio workers, Ohio manufacturers, and Ohio jobs. It's clear that the undervaluation of the yuan allows for cheap Chinese imports to undermine American-made products. If the Administration is serious about American manufacturing and boosting exports, we've got to make sure that our trading partners play by the same set of rules that we do.

 

"I applaud the U.S. House - and my Ohio colleague U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan - for standing up for Ohio workers with this vote. I will continue fighting with my colleagues to pass legislation that addresses currency manipulation when the Senate returns in November.

 

"The Administration has tools to address China's currency manipulation. The Commerce Department has an opportunity to stand up for Ohio manufacturers by using China's undervalued currency in its subsidy investigation of Chinese paper and aluminum extrusions. This would provide injured manufacturers a trade remedy defense against unfair competition.

 

"Congress also has tools to address currency manipulation and we're prepared to stand up for workers and manufacturers who continue to play by the rules while their Chinese competitors do not."

 

Brown is considered one of Congress' leading voices on trade issues and has repeatedly urged the administration to act on the devaluation of Chinese currency. Following the Treasury Department's report, Brown urged the U.S. Department of Commerce to act on petitions from U.S. industries like the paper industry. In a letter sent to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Brown joined Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) in calling for the Department to make a final ruling on whether or not it would investigate whether China's currency policy provides an unfair subsidy for Chinese paper products that should be remedied through trade measures.

 

The Commerce Department investigates unfair trade practices, including subsidization of products exported to the U.S. If the Commerce Department determines that imported products are unduly subsidized - and the International Trade Commission (ITC) finds that the U.S. industry has suffered from the subsidized imports - Commerce will assign additional import taxes to those products.

 

In March 2010, Brown joined Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) to introduce bipartisan legislation that would amend the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 to clarify the definition of manipulation with respect to currency. The bill would also reduce the global account surplus requirement necessary for the United States to take action (only requires bilateral account surplus), and establish additional reporting guidelines for Treasury to include in their bi-annual reports to Congress.

 

Brown is the Chair of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy and one of Congress' leading voices on trade. Earlier this year, Brown was appointed to the President's Export Council, the principal national advisory committee on international trade. In October 2009, Sen. Brown introduced the Trade Enforcement Priorities Act of 2009 S. 1982). The legislation would give the federal government more authority, named "Super 301" authority, to address trade barriers that undermine American workers and domestic manufacturing.