trade surplus
noun
finance
: a situation in which a country sells more to other countries than it buys from other countries : the amount of money by which a country's exports are greater than its imports
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Vietnam has the third-largest trade surplus with the U.S., after China and Mexico, which could put the Southeast Asian country at risk of tariffs from a president obsessed with bilateral trade flows.
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Alena Botros, Fortune Asia, 6 Jan. 2025
The dilemma for China now is that its sizable trade surplus with the US means any direct countermeasures may have limited impact.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 29 Nov. 2024
Countries like Japan and then Germany and now China have taken advantage of the United States’s fixation on free trade to increase their trade surplus with the US, sell us lots of manufactured goods, and not buy very much from the United States.
—Haleema Shah, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Nicaragua presents unique challenges due to its trade surplus with the U.S., totaling approximately $3 billion in 2022—nearly 20 percent of its gross domestic product.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Alena Botros, Fortune Asia, 6 Jan. 2025
The dilemma for China now is that its sizable trade surplus with the US means any direct countermeasures may have limited impact.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 29 Nov. 2024
Countries like Japan and then Germany and now China have taken advantage of the United States’s fixation on free trade to increase their trade surplus with the US, sell us lots of manufactured goods, and not buy very much from the United States.
—Haleema Shah, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Nicaragua presents unique challenges due to its trade surplus with the U.S., totaling approximately $3 billion in 2022—nearly 20 percent of its gross domestic product.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Trade surplus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20surplus. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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