trade deficit
trade gap

The trade deficit is one of the nation's most serious problems.

With the trade deficit already too large, who needs this?

If so, it could provide even more help with the nation's trade deficit, but not much.

Others believe that trade deficits are good for the economy.

Yet how much of the trade deficit does this really explain?

The same comment can be made about the trade deficit.

This country still has the largest trade deficit in the world, by far.

He said that the trade deficit with Japan was down 25 percent from last year.

They have confidence in our economy despite the trade deficit.

Either man would, as President, attack the budget and trade deficits.

That is the only way the trade deficit will improve.

Plus we have a big and growing trade deficit with China.

I think we turned the corner on the trade deficit earlier this year.

The most crucial of the economic data is today's report on the trade deficit.

Large trade deficits themselves are not necessarily bad news for the American economy.

The trade deficit has not been a problem for the dollar or the American economy so far.

"Given the size of our trade deficit, the best we can hope for in 1987 is to go from worse to bad."

Alas, the same cannot be said for the trade deficit.

One reason is that the nation's trade deficit has declined.

But the size of our trade deficit makes that unlikely.

Thus, the impact on the trade deficit would be slight.

Indeed, Singapore has always run a trade deficit with the world.

Oil has been a key factor in the huge trade deficits.

Traders turned their attention instead to the nation's huge trade deficit.

It was the nation's foreign debt, not the trade deficit.