Much of Germany's second-quarter GDP growth came from trade, even as a wider trade gap sapped America's economy.
Over the same period, employment, manufacturing, and the stock market all also increased the fastest alongside a widening trade gap.
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India's current-account deficit is driven mainly by a perennial trade gap.
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This creates a lag between incurring costs and receiving revenues, a gap bridged by short-term trade-finance loans.
In the long run, a slowdown in the US economy will reduce the trade gap by reducing imports.
The US wants China to move towards a more consumer-led economy, narrowing the trade gap between the two countries.
Indeed America's export growth has been much stronger (a sudden surge in imports was behind the second-quarter trade gap).
Because of that gap in trade, China ends up with about a billion new U.S. dollars every day.
Attempting to retard this positive evolutionary process by stop-gap measures such as the present trade agreement with a reconfigured union will probably only result in increased estrangement and desperation on the part of the most independent republics.
It is a priority because the EU has a huge bill for oil and gas imports from outside Europe - bigger even than the EU's manufacturing trade gap with China, he says.
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