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  2. Balance of trade - Wikipedia

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    Balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports of goods over a certain time period. [1] Sometimes services are also considered but the official IMF definition only considers goods. The balance of trade measures a flow variable of exports and imports over a given period of time. The notion of the ...

  3. Are Trade Deficits Good or Bad for the US? - AOL

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    A trade deficit occurs when a country imports more than it exports -- and that's a good thing for a national economy. ... America’s trade balance is just one part of a larger diagnosis of the ...

  4. Current account (balance of payments) - Wikipedia

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    The current balance in 2013 as a percentage of GDP was 1.6%. Germany for 2013 was 238.61, and 2014 was 285.82 with each quarter between 2013 Q1 through 2015 Q2 ranging from a low of 54.13 in Q3 2013 to a high of 68.89 in Q1 2014. Germany's current account balance in Q2 2015 was up to 68.39. The current balance in Q2 as a percentage of GDP was 8.2%.

  5. United States balance of trade - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Trade Balance (1895–2015) and Trade Policies. The 1920s marked a decade of economic growth in the United States following a classical supply side policy. [1] U.S. President Warren Harding signed the Emergency Tariff of 1921 and the Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922. Harding's policies reduced taxes and protected U.S. business and ...

  6. Balance of payments - Wikipedia

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    Country foreign exchange reserves minus external debt. In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference between all money flowing into the country in a particular period of time (e.g., a quarter or a year) and the outflow of money to the rest of the world.

  7. Marshall–Lerner condition - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, if the economy starts out with a trade deficit and X - eM < 0, the elasticities have to add up to more than 1 for depreciation to improve the balance of trade, because the initial harmful price effect is bigger, so the quantity responses have to be bigger to compensate. Suppose initially the US exports 60 million tons of goods to ...

  8. Invisible balance - Wikipedia

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    The invisible balance or balance of trade on services is that part of the balance of trade that refers to services and other items that do not result in the transfer of physical objects. [1] Examples include consulting services, shipping services, tourism, and patent license revenues. This figure is usually generated by tertiary industry. The ...

  9. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    The current account balance is one of two major measures of a country's foreign trade (the other being the net capital outflow). A current account surplus indicates that the value of a country's net foreign assets (i.e. assets less liabilities) grew over the period in question, and a current account deficit indicates that it shrank.