The iPhone is priced correctly in China’s customs trade data. A seemingly banal observation that leads to big questions about China’s post 2022 balance of payments methodology.

The IMF should take a mulligan on the 2024 External Sector Report. The imbalance in China’s goods trade is expanding, not receding. It is too big for the IMF to ignore.

Of course, even with a related UN update to national accounts data also now ready, balance of payments statistics don’t change overnight, and the IMF says that “countries are encouraged to ...

Pakistan will be required to give an assurance that its balance of payments deficit is fully financed for the fiscal year ending in June to unlock the next tranche of IMF funding, the fund's ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan will be required to give an assurance that its balance of payments deficit is fully financed for the fiscal year ending in June to unlock the next tranche of ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, March 6 (Reuters) - Pakistan will be required to give an assurance that its balance of payments deficit is fully financed for the fiscal year ending in June to unlock the next ...