trade surplus
noun
finance
: a situation in which a country sells more to other countries than it buys from other countries : the amount of money by which a country's exports are greater than its imports
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The world’s fifth-largest economy has a growing trade surplus with the United States and is its largest source of undocumented immigrants outside Latin America.
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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative puts total bilateral trade between the U.S. and Colombia at $53.5 billion annually as of 2022, with the U.S. having a trade surplus of $3.9 billion.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2025
That includes trying to turn around a stagnant economy and ease tensions with trading partners over China’s record trade surplus of nearly $1 trillion.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
China’s trade surplus last year climbed to nearly $1 trillion, a record.
▪ High winds and dry vegetation are creating the conditions for new blazes in the Los Angeles area.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative puts total bilateral trade between the U.S. and Colombia at $53.5 billion annually as of 2022, with the U.S. having a trade surplus of $3.9 billion.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2025
That includes trying to turn around a stagnant economy and ease tensions with trading partners over China’s record trade surplus of nearly $1 trillion.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
China’s trade surplus last year climbed to nearly $1 trillion, a record.
▪ High winds and dry vegetation are creating the conditions for new blazes in the Los Angeles area.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Trade surplus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20surplus. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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