How to Use trade deficit in a Sentence

trade deficit

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  • And our trade deficit with China is down to the lowest point in over a decade.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • So the goal of his tariffs would be to eliminate the U.S. trade deficit.
    — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • That’s the largest annual decline in the trade deficit since 2009.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Yet the levies won’t notably cut the U.S. trade deficit as intended, Moody’s says.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • Yet the trade deficit increased and tariffs raised prices for consumers.
    — WSJ, 30 June 2023
  • For starters, India has a huge and widening trade deficit with Russia.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023
  • Trump said the goal was to shrink the U.S. trade deficit and bring back more manufacturing stateside.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2023
  • However, the year to date trade deficit is still 8.9% higher than the same period a year ago.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
  • To rebalance the trade deficit, British merchants sold opium to the Chinese.
    — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • America has a huge trade deficit and has been exporting its wealth.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Japan recorded a trade deficit for the third straight fiscal year as the costs of energy and other imports rose and the yen remained weak.
    — Yuri Kageyama, Fortune Asia, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The enormous trade deficit with China has become a flash point in U.S. politics.
    — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • These forces also resulted in the country falling into a trade deficit in July 2022 for the first time in three decades.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Many, particularly on the right, bemoan the U.S. trade deficit and the supposedly terrible trade deals that the U.S. has agreed to over the years.
    — John Gustavsson, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • For instance, China could not have achieved its current $800 billion trade surplus in goods if the United States did not have a large trade deficit.
    — Brad Setser, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2024
  • That narrowed the trade deficit modestly and boosted overall growth.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The trade deficit hit record levels during the Trump Administration, half of that with China.
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Ukraine’s trade deficit widened to $8.97 billion in the first five months of this year, Reuters reported, compared with a deficit of about $1 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
  • The law incorporated measures Khanna pushed for to help reduce the trade deficit with China.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The United States this week reported that its trade deficit had widened significantly in April to $74.6 billion.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • The Ministry of Finance said Thursday that the country ran a trade deficit of ¥3.5 trillion in January, equivalent to about $26 billion, a monthly record.
    — Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Trump also added some new false claims, such as his assertions that the US currently has its biggest budget deficit and its biggest trade deficit with China.
    — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • The Japanese currency tumbled to a three-decade low last year as a significant trade deficit and widening interest-rate gap with the US weighed.
    — Yumi Teso, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2023
  • Trade had supported the economy the previous four quarters as exports outpaced imports and the trade deficit narrowed.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • But studies have concluded that the trade deficit continued to grow, and U.S. companies primarily paid for the tariffs.
    — Avery Lotz, Axios, 28 Sep. 2024
  • But that was due largely to a wider trade deficit and slower inventory restocking, while consumer demand remained robust.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 May 2024
  • Proponents of the idea argue that making the dollar weaker against other currencies would make U.S. exports relatively cheaper, which would lead to a reduction in the trade deficit.
    — Patrick Horan, National Review, 25 Apr. 2024
  • In addition, the stock-market surge has attracted foreign capital, contributing to a strong dollar and an ongoing U.S. trade deficit, Kelly said.
    — Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The practical-yet-precious commodity helped turn Canada’s trade deficit into a surprise surplus this summer.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In January, the trade deficit increased, to $89 billion, as American exports were lower than December and year-earlier figures.
    — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024

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