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trade deficit

NOUN
  1. an excess of imports over exports

How To Use trade deficit In A Sentence

  • The current trade deficit indicates a serious imbalance between our import and export trade.
  • The country is running a balance-of-payments/budget/trade deficit of $250 million.
  • Free trade does not lower wages or cause persistent unemployment There is nothing new in the current hullabaloo about free trade, jobs, and trade deficits.
  • A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally, though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit.
  • But I know enough to say with confidence that a trade deficit, though it may be epiphenomenal to other economic difficulties, cannot itself be deemed a problem.
  • We can illustrate this with a country with a trade account that is in balance but an external debt inherited from the past (prior trade deficits, war reparations, etc.).
  • The trade deficit had widened from £26 billion to £30 billion.
  • According to the November 2004 provisional trade figures, the National trade deficit stood at 1,104 million vatu showing a deterioration of 264 million vatu compared to November 2003.
  • The size of the trade deficit towards the end of each episode of Conservative government is a sure sign of this.
  • When inflation is factored out, the trade deficit fell 12.8%.
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