A farm equipment retailer in Azerbaijan exchanges Azerbaijan manats (the currency of Azerbaijan) for $300,000 a bank in Azerbaijan was holding. It uses the $300,000 to buy farm equipment from a U.S. company. The U.S. company deposits half of these funds

in a U.S. bank and exchanges the other half for euros from a bank in London. As a result of these transactions, by how much, if at all, and in which direction did: A. U.S. net exports change? B. U.S. net capital outflow change?


A. U.S. net exports increase by $300,000.
B. U.S. net capital outflows increase by $300,000.

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