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US is the alpha consumer. If you can sell in the US, you won. You want to sell in the US. You get dollars for what you sell in the US and since everyone else also wants to sell in the US, you trade with everybody using dollars. Also, your government goes batshit crazy statistically more often than the US, so your currency risk is smaller if you're settling trade in dollars.


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