trade deficit
noun
finance
: a situation in which a country buys more from other countries than it sells to other countries : the amount of money by which a country's imports are greater than its exports
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The Trump Administration, with its focus on America’s trade deficit, promotes the project as a way to reduce our trade deficit and has urged some allies to either invest in the project or agree to buy its output.
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Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Von der Leyen pointed to the EU's growing trade deficit with China.
—Sophie Kiderlin,anniek Bao,lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 24 July 2025
In 2024, federal trade data showed the U.S. goods trade deficit with Japan was $68.5 billion.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
Since Liberation Day, the over-all trade deficit had actually worsened.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
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Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Von der Leyen pointed to the EU's growing trade deficit with China.
—Sophie Kiderlin,anniek Bao,lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 24 July 2025
In 2024, federal trade data showed the U.S. goods trade deficit with Japan was $68.5 billion.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
Since Liberation Day, the over-all trade deficit had actually worsened.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
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“Trade deficit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20deficit. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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