How to Use trade deficit in a Sentence

trade deficit

noun
  • Since then, the trade deficit has come back down.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • When a country runs a trade deficit, it must be funded.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Reduction in the trade deficit.
    — CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Yet the trade deficit increased and tariffs raised prices for consumers.
    — WSJ, 30 June 2023
  • And our trade deficit with China is down to the lowest point in over a decade.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The goods trade deficit nearly halved, to around $88 billion.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
  • That precisely equaled the overall trade deficit.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • America has a huge trade deficit and has been exporting its wealth.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • One of them is, what is the direction in the US trade deficit in goods?
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The real goods trade deficit increased despite new tariffs.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The United States now has by far the largest trade deficit in history.
    — Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Running a trade deficit is nothing new for the United States.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • India’s trade deficit with China has only increased in the last few years.
    — Tanvi Madan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2025
  • For starters, India has a huge and widening trade deficit with Russia.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023
  • Washington meanwhile has seen real progress on its goal to narrow their trade deficit.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Much of that was due to a significantly lower trade deficit.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Even so, India’s goods trade deficit hit a new high on weak exports and higher gold imports.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Last year, America’s trade deficit with the rest of the world increased slightly.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That’s the largest annual decline in the trade deficit since 2009.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The nation’s trade deficit has hit its lowest level since 2009.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Trump has promoted the tariffs as a way to reduce the persistent trade deficit.
    — Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The trade deficit, on the other hand, is mostly driven by imports versus exports.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
  • During the first eight months of last year, Africa’s trade deficit stretched to almost $60 billion.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Trump declared the decades-long trade deficit itself to be a national emergency.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The expectation on the trade deficit is $62 billion.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2026
  • India runs a trade deficit in goods that its net trade surplus in services and remittances cannot fully cover.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Even the narrow decline in the trade deficit was due to a growing surplus in services, such as transport and travel.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Japan's trade deficit surged in September as imports overwhelmed export growth.
    — Vinay Dwivedi,lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Von der Leyen pointed to the EU's growing trade deficit with China.
    — Sophie Kiderlin,anniek Bao,lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 24 July 2025
  • Japan recorded a trade deficit for the third straight fiscal year as the costs of energy and other imports rose and the yen remained weak.
    — Yuri Kageyama, Fortune Asia, 17 Apr. 2024

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