Indeed, Mexico s trade deficit with China reached 9 billion in 2003.

The trade deficit. Yes, the US runs a massive trade deficit with China around 295 billion in 2011, or fully 40 of America s total merchandise trade gap of 738 billion.

Normally, a country s current account deficit (trade deficit minus transfers from other countries) is financed with foreign private capital.

The Making of China s Trade Deficit

The Roman Empire ran a persistent trade deficit with India for centuries.

The Plaza Accord was successful in reducing the U.S. trade deficit with Western European nations but largely failed to fulfill its primary objective of alleviating the trade deficit with Japan.

The gargantuan US trade deficit? No problem.

Nonetheless, the Territory consistently records a trade deficit.

The counterargument hinges on the difference between the current account deficit and the trade deficit.

Thus, in order to keep the current account deficit stable, the trade deficit must shrink.

In various cases the previous trade surplus turned rapidly into a trade deficit.

First, America s trade deficit is multilateral the US ran deficits with 88 nations in 2010.

In 2003, the Territory finished with a slight trade deficit in the amount of 375,000.27

At that point, the US trade deficit will shrink.

As a consequence, the trade deficit rose to 1.3 billion.

The fall in the capital inflow would therefore bring with it a fall in the trade deficit.

Africa apos s trade deficit widened following collapses in commodity prices.

But fiscal sustainability is no cure for Greece s chronically large trade deficit.

Consider Mexico's trade balance with the US since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. In the years between 1995 and 2002, Mexico's annual trade deficit with the US increased to 1 billion.

Meanwhile, commodity prices will continue to rise, with oil exporters now constituting the largest contributors to America s gaping trade deficit.

Perhaps the biggest weakness in the true believers argument is the trade deficit.

In addition to the trade and budget deficits, there is a jobs deficit.

Palestinian net imports from Israel represent two thirds of the total trade deficit.

A trade balance surplus and an approved deficit in the general State budget

Thus, the region apos s formerly ample trade surplus turned into a deficit.

Indeed, America s trade deficit in manufactures is roughly equal to its current account deficit (the amount by which domestic investment exceeds domestic saving).

But the Belarusian economic model cannot survive, with the trade deficit forecast to exceed 7 billion (14 of GDP) this year.

Although US politicians focus on the bilateral trade deficit with China which is persistently large what matters is the multilateral balance.

This year, the US will borrow roughly 800 billion to finance its trade deficit.

Indeed, protectionism can do nothing to reduce America's trade deficit and stanch domestic unemployment.

16. The trade account deficit was the most troubling characteristic of the external sector.

External trade and investment Foreign investment and balance of payments Foreign trade and balance of payments In 2001 the current account deficit dropped to about 2.2 of GDP (US 1.17 billion) from 3.1 in 2000 while the trade balance registered a small deficit.

He refuses to note the renminbi s large real appreciation in recent years, or to acknowledge that, while changes in China s exchange rate may affect the bilateral trade deficit, what matters is America s multilateral trade deficit.

In any case, the central bank has already projected that Brazil s trade surplus will disappear this year, with a small deficit expected.

It is no longer competitive in manufacturing, but blames others for its huge trade deficit.

In both scenarios, US employment would not increase and the trade deficit would not diminish.

Wages have stagnated despite strong productivity growth, while the trade deficit has set new records.

Traditionally, nearly half of India s trade deficit has been financed by remittances from Indian expatriates.

The US is running an 800 billion annual trade deficit in traditional goods and services.

In that case, the trade deficit recorded in March could be at least 40 higher.

The opposite side of the high absorption GDP ratio is an equally high trade deficit.

A country can balance its trade either on a trading partner basis in which total money flows between two countries are equalized or it can balance the overall trade and money flows so that a trade deficit with one country is balanced by a trade surplus with another country.

The current account deficit is increasing relentlessly, owing to a widening trade deficit (now at 13 of GDP), raising the danger of a balance of payments crisis.

It runs a trade deficit only when it invests a lot while simultaneously not limiting consumption.

By maintaining an undervalued currency, China is preventing the US from reducing its bilateral trade deficit.