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trade deficit

NOUN
  1. an excess of imports over exports

How To Use trade deficit In A Sentence

  • However, surges in the trade deficit need not cause general economic contraction if they are accompanied by growth of demand from other sources.
  • Third, Beijing is likely to emerge as an exporting superpower, aggravating America's trade deficit and fanning protectionist pressures in a slumping world economy.
  • A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally, though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit.
  • The American film industry has a surplus balance of trade with every single country in the world when America itself is hemorrhaging trade deficits.
  • In 1971, a trade deficit of one-half of one percent of GDP about a tenth of today's level was enough to frighten Nixon into imposing a temporary 10 percent surcharge tariff on all dutiable goods. Ian Fletcher: Kennedy's Blunder, or How Free Trade Turned Sour for America
  • The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.
  • The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.
  • But during the initial period, the rich world will suffer from trade deficits and the accumulation of debt. THE AGE OF CONSENT
  • The Commerce Department reported the US trade deficit narrowed to its lowest level in nine months.
  • The first is the desire of the US government to keep interest rates low and the dollar strong since inward investment keeps the stock market buoyant and finances the trade deficit.
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