trade balance
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- noun
- /treɪd ˈbæləns/
- Specialized
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balanza comercial
- The trade balance is still favorable to the United States in agriculture and agro-industry in bilateral trade.
- improving the trade balance
There is no one has ever managed to establish a serious correlation between a country's trade balance and its growth rate.
- There is no one has ever managed to establish a serious correlation between a country's trade balance and its growth rate.
Examples
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Eventually, employment reaches satisfactory sustainable levels, and a consensus trade balance is achieved.
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Perhaps most importantly, a weaker dollar's effect on the trade balance, and thus on growth, is limited by two factors.
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Clearly, the easiest and most commonly used way is to look at the trade balance between two countries.
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In 1989, the trade balance was in deep deficit.
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Examination of Peru's balance of payments over the past decade shows that the trade balance has usually been a positive generator of foreign exchange.
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European governments sought favorable trade balances by controlling larger portions of the world's resources.
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The government is concerned about the country's trade balance, which shows a deficit in imports over exports.
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A favorable trade balance can strengthen a nation's economy by increasing its foreign exchange reserves.
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Analysts predict that changes in policy will significantly impact the trade balance between the two countries.
Synonyms
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The difference in value of goods a country sells and buys from other countries over time
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The difference between the value of a country's imports and exports over a time period
The difference in value between a country's exports and imports of goods over time
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a straightforward composition of 'trade' (buying and selling) + 'balance' (the net remainder or difference), so a learner who knows both words can infer this refers to the net difference in trade values. The compound follows a common, cross‑linguistic pattern (e.g. 'balance of trade') and is a transparent nominal composition, making it accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The term trade balance may come from the picture of merchants using a scale: trade, the goods a country sells and buys, sat on the two sides and the balance showed which side was heavier, so the phrase came to mean the 'difference between exports and imports'.