Recent years have witnessed a constant decline of the ratio of China's trade surplus to its economic aggregate.

近年来，中国的贸易顺差额占经济总量的比重在不断下降。

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In pitching the very same bilateral trade agreements two and three years ago that the business community is pitching today, then-USTR Susan Schwab liked to remind Congress that the United States had an aggregate trade surplus with the countries with whom the Bush administration had concluded free trade agreements, as though that were the appropriate success metric.

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