Synonyms for trade deficit
trade deficit

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1. trade deficitnoun

   Antonyms:
   trade surplus

2. trade deficitnoun

   Antonyms:
   trade surplus

Princeton's WordNet

1. trade deficitnoun

   an excess of imports over exports

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1. • Deficit

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1. Joe Biden:

   China - the problem isn't the trade deficit, the problem is they're stealing our intellectual property. The problem is they're violating the WTO. They're dumping steel on us, and that's why you need to organize the world to take on China, to stop the corrupt practices that are under way.

2. Alan Gayle:

   A negative number is scary for the market, it was something of a one-two punch between the trade-deficit report and higher interest rates that began overseas.

3. Jacob Kirkegaard:

   It's the value of production within the physical borders of the United States, so therefore if you have, hypothetically, exports that are flat and higher imports, then your trade deficit is rising. In that sense, a rising trade deficit subtracts from GDP, when you have highly fluctuating commodity prices, and especially in periods of high inflation in general, then it can be misleading and, in my opinion, paint an overly negative view of where The US economy is.

4. Michael Pillsbury:

   It's not good news for reducing the trade deficit or helping our economy recover from the coronavirus crisis.

5. Alan Gayle:

   It was something of a one-two punch between the trade-deficit report and higher interest rates that began overseas.