"trade level" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used in business and economics contexts to refer to the level or state of trade, commerce, or economic activity. Example: The decline in global exports has had a significant impact on the trade level in the country. Another example: The company's success can be attributed to their ability to adapt to changing trade levels in the market.
On a more basic rag trade level, the clothes for the show cost $35,000 to produce -- a pittance by the standards of a large design house, but a colossal sum for an independent designer -- and were all predicated on finding "the perfect piece of Battenburg lace".
Rather, it was used as a measure to monitor counterparty risk at trade level.
In addition, a change in the Logsum between a production and consumption zone influences the trade level between the zones.
They concluded that the trade agreements have not extensively affected the regional trade level and that trade of intermediate products was still very low, indicating that regional production networks were still under-developed.
Trade levels had plunged during the financial crisis, and are now recovering.
They argued that much of the damage would come from falling trade levels and lower consumer confidence.
The trade numbers came as some of the country's largest trading partners were reporting even starker rates of economic contraction and drops in trade levels.
The falling trade levels underscored the broad economic contraction occurring in what the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, described as the worst financial crisis since the Depression.
The government reported this week that consumer prices grew at the slowest pace in 50 years in 2008, retail sales spiraled downward and trade levels slumped as demand for foreign goods virtually dried up.
Mr. Braddick predicted that growth in net trade levels -- steady exports minus growing imports -- would slow next year, and he said an increase "in business investment is critical to the economic outlook".
With its imports rising faster than exports, China's overall trade surplus is down sharply from where it was before the credit crisis of 2008 and 2009 caused world trade levels to fall drastically.
