Sentence examples for trade shortfall from inspiring English sources

The budget deficit is larger than the trade shortfall ever was.

The trade shortfall rose 16percentto to $31.17 billion in March, from a revised $26.86 billion in February.

The ministry said that despite the yen's declines, however, Japan recorded a trade deficit last month of $3.7 billion, more than four times as large as the trade shortfall in the same month the year before.

Other data released on Wednesday showed the current account deficit, the broadest measure of the nation's trade shortfall with the rest of the world, narrowed more than expected in the third quarter.

Over a three-month period, the difference between imports and exports looks more stable, narrowing by £0.4bn, to £6.5bn – though Britain's trade shortfall with the rest of the EU reached £21.1bn, the highest level since records began in 1998.

When the dollar was tied to fixed exchange rates, politicians were willing to administer the needed castor oil, because the alternative was to make up for the trade shortfall by paying out reserves, and this would cause immediate economic pain — from high interest rates, for example.

And economically advanced countries like Germany and Japan have seen their industrial production decline as a result of trade shortfalls.

The final group includes Germany, the Netherlands and China, where the trade gap creates Britain's biggest deficits.Worries about persistent trade shortfalls are offset a little by services surpluses.

"[This has] created a dependency on principal shareholders bankrolling trading shortfalls".

Add the states' own budget shortfalls and the country's trade deficit, the I.M.F.

The trade deficit shrank 5.1 percent to $41.55 billion, the smallest shortfall since December 2010, the Commerce Department said.