美国将决定中国是不是汇率操纵国

星期五是奥巴马行政当局决定是否正式把中国列为“汇率操纵国”的最后期限。美国财政部可能在一份预计星期五发布的半年一次的全球货币报告中将中国列 为“汇率操纵国”。有关报告是国会要求必须发布的。但该报告也有可能会推迟发布。美国议员和业界指责中国人为压低人民币汇率，以便让中国制造的商品在世界 市场得到价格优势。

中国商务部发言人姚坚星期五说，美国不应该把中国人民币当作美国国内问题的“替罪羊”。他说，仅仅以中国存在贸易顺差 而批评人民币汇率是不公平的。中国宣布9月份贸易顺差达到169亿美元，这个数字少于8月份的200亿美元顺差，但仍足以引发外界再次要求中国这个世界第 二大经济体让本国货币在金融市场比较自由地买卖。

The Obama administration faces a deadline Friday on whether to formally label China a "currency manipulator." The U.S. Treasury Department may apply that label in a twice-a-year report on global currencies which is expected to be released on Friday. The reporting requirement is mandated by Congress, but the report could be postponed.U.S. lawmakers and businesses accuse China of keeping its currency, artificially low, giving Chinese-made goods a price advantage on world markets.

Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman Yao Jian said Friday the United States should not make the yuan a "scapegoat" for its domestic problems. He said it is unfair to criticize the yuan's exchange rate by simply pointing at the Chinese trade surplus. China posted a $16.9 billion trade surplus in September. That was less than the $20 billion surplus in August but enough to prompt new demands for the world's second-largest economy to let the yuan trade more freely on financial markets.