US Import & Export Prices Have Plummeted In The Last Year

Import prices have been on a steep deflationary path since mid-2022 as supply chains have loosened and commodity prices have plunged.

Source: Bloomberg

Which means the terms of trade worsened in June as export prices fell more than import prices. That will be a drag on growth…

Source: Bloomberg

The headline deflationary declines are significant with export prices down 12.0% YoY and import prices down 6.1% YoY…

Source: Bloomberg

There is one possibility for a change in trend – China’s credit impulse (lagged)…

Source: Bloomberg

But, for now, we have seen no impact of this impulse rippling out from China’s apparent bottomless bucket of bad debt.