trade gap

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The trade gap totaled $54.5 billion in January, running close to its annual average for the month over the past decade.

From MarketWatch

Economists had expected the trade gap to narrow from December’s C$1.3 billion to about a C$1.1 billion deficit for the latest month.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, the huge trade gap looms large over these talks as the chancellor takes along a sizeable business delegation.

From BBC

But the trade gap in goods with China narrowed for the full year, as US imports from the world's second-biggest economy dropped by 30 percent.

From Barron's

The trade gap had fallen to a 16-year low of $28.7 billion in October, but that only reflected a change in the timing of U.S. orders.

From MarketWatch