Like the us, it, too, has a large imbalance with the rest of the world - namely, an outsize current account surplus.

就像与美国一样，它也与世界其余国家也存在大规模的失衡——即巨额经常账户盈余。

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Usually, though, trade is responsible for most of the current account imbalance.

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Stateside, the trade imbalance between the values of what America imports and exports is known as the current account deficit.

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According to Martin Neil Baily, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, the "striking thing" about last year's report was that it painted a rosy view of the trade imbalance by focusing on the capital account surplus, rather than its inverse, the current account deficit.

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