Sandy Ingram    

A trade surplus generally increases the value of a currency due to higher demand, while a trade deficit tends to weaken it because of increased supply…The relationship between import and export costs and currency value is driven by the supply and demand dynamics in international currency markets – Forex.  Iraq’s plans for income outside of the oil industry hopefully can eliminate any potential imbalances in imports and exports.  Even…the United States is striving to balance the import and export revenues.  When you hear [Trump] saying, let’s make the country great again, what he is actually saying is, we should decrease imports and increase exports.  And we will decrease the imports by adding tariffs to imported goods.