How to Use trade surplus in a Sentence

trade surplus

noun

• Including all goods and services, the U.K. has a trade surplus with the U.S.
  — Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
• More than a third of the trade surplus was with the U.S., according to the Financial Times.
  — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
• The United States has run a trade surplus also goes back decades.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
• Japan had a trade surplus with the U.S. and some European countries.
  — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
• Its trade surplus in these goods is equal to a tenth of the entire Chinese economy.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• The flow of trade Arizona enjoys a sizable trade surplus with Ireland.
  — The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2024
• For instance, China could not have achieved its current $800 billion trade surplus in goods if the United States did not have a large trade deficit.
  — Brad Setser, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2024
• Its global trade surplus in goods has soared and is now approaching $1 trillion.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• The country’s global trade surplus in goods has soared in recent years and is now approaching $1 trillion.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• Arts and culture exports produce a trade surplus of $21 billion.
  — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2025
• The currency has lost more than a quarter of its value against the dollar this year as Moscow's trade surplus erodes and Russians move money abroad.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023
• China’s trade surplus has tended to be fairly low in May and much higher later in the year, when its exporters supply goods for the Christmas season.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• Trump even required that all his briefing papers for a meeting or a call with a world leader start with whether the leader’s country had a merchandise trade surplus with the United States.
  — Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 26 June 2024
• Russia’s trade surplus has fallen sharply, with the West curbing Moscow’s ability to earn big profits by selling oil abroad.
  — WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
• The trade surplus for October was also revised higher to A$7.7 billion.
  — James Glynn, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
• The countries most in focus of additional tariffs could also include Germany and Vietnam due to their trade surplus vis-à-vis the United States.
  — London Business School, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
• The dilemma for China now is that its sizable trade surplus with the US means any direct countermeasures may have limited impact.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 29 Nov. 2024
• Chinese officials said the country does not seek a trade surplus and aims to boost imports, but imports lagged exports last year, partly due to lower prices for key commodities like oil and iron ore.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
• Export data published last month showed shipments in the first three quarters soared to the second-highest value on record, in a boom that put China on track for a record trade surplus that could reach almost $1 trillion this year.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 2 Dec. 2024
• Germany’s trade surplus widened a little more than expected in October as imports fell more sharply than exports.
  — Joshua Kirby, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
• China’s customs agency reports the country’s trade surplus for August.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
• Hanson accuses me of neglecting the U.S. trade surplus in services, but the reality is those surpluses offset only a fifth of the $1.2 trillion goods deficit.
  — Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
• That includes trying to turn around a stagnant economy and ease tensions with trading partners over China’s record trade surplus of nearly $1 trillion.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
• But gathering storm clouds over the country’s massive trade surplus mean that Beijing may not be able to count on exports to boost an otherwise lackluster economy.
  — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune Asia, 17 Jan. 2025
• The tariffs were also meant to compel the countries to take further action to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the U.S. and to narrow their trade surplus.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
• The world’s fifth-largest economy has a growing trade surplus with the United States and is its largest source of undocumented immigrants outside Latin America.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
• South Korea posted a decline in exports for the 10th consecutive month in July on sluggish global demand but maintained a trade surplus, largely on a plunge in imports.
  — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2023
• However, if one of the group’s members developed a trade surplus, the others would increase tariffs against its exports until that surplus disappeared.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
• Germany has a substantial automotive trade surplus with the country.
  — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2024
• That revenue, coupled with a collapse in what Russia could import because of sanctions, pushed the country into a record trade surplus — meaning what Russia earned from sales to other countries far outweighed its purchases abroad.
  — David McHugh, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2023