While exports are good for the U.S. economy (e.g. raising demand for U.S. products and wages of American workers), imports are bad: they destroy American industries and American jobs and lower our standards of living. Comment.
1. clearly state your main points; and
2. support your main points with theory (i.e. logic/reasoning, the models we have discussed in class, etc.).
Examples with made-up numbers, like those we use in the Ricardian model, are theory, not data.)