trade balance

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America ran a balance-of-payments deficit throughout the 1950s and ’60s, even though the trade balance was a surplus in most years before 1976.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Weekly jobless claims, the Philly Fed manufacturing survey and the U.S. trade balance are all due at 8:30 a.m.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026

Other major markets for Chinese products, such as the European Union, are alarmed by the imbalance in their trade balance with China.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

The EU’s trade balance for January-October 2025 ran just about even with the year before, shrugging off, for now, both the pricier euro and U.S. tariffs.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

It is on cotton that the United States has depended for the payment of its trade balance to Europe.

From The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest by Thompson, Holland