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The point of foreign-exchange reserves is to protect a country’s ability to buy imports when it suffers a shock.
Sri Lanka imports all of its oil and also buys coal for electricity generation.
From Barron's
The mechanism would help to formalize and identify what kinds of goods the United States should be exporting to and importing from China, he said.
From Barron's
South Korea, for instance, is heavily dependent on natural-gas imports and sits on the border with an emboldened North Korea, he said.
Arvin-Edison Water Storage District, near Bakersfield, started building levees and digging basins for imported water in the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times
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