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the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise
a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports
How To Use trade balance In A Sentence
- To the extent that it actually boosts consumption at the expense of investment and the foreign trade balance, the net result from a macro perspective is overall impoverishment.
- The trade balance shows a deficit of two million pounds.
- The trade balance reached equilibrium or surplus only under conditions of deep recession.
- The trade balance in that year showed a deficit of US$805,000,000.
- The trade balance has been in deficit for the past five years.
- we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance
- Argentina's trade balance with China swung into a deficit in 2008.
- The trade balance has been in deficit for the past five years.
- The trade balance has been in deficit for the past five years.
- Even so, the trade balance remained in surplus for several consecutive months.
