Business
The United States paid out $117.7 billion more to the rest of the world than it took in last year, running up the largest deficit ever in the broadest measure of the nation’s trade with the rest of the world, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
March 19, 1986
Two years of a falling dollar did not bring American trade back into balance; economists and politicians have now begun looking beyond the decimal points of exchange rates to understand the larger dynamics of foreign trade.
Aug. 2, 1987
Only days before President Bush visits Japan to tackle what promises to be thorny trade issues, Tokyo announced Thursday a more than threefold increase in its current account balance of payments surplus.
Dec. 27, 1991
World & Nation
President Reagan proposed a 43-point program Tuesday in an effort to claim as his own a national drive to correct the nation’s trade balance and improve its competitiveness in the world economy.
Jan. 28, 1987
Britain announced that its balance-of-payments deficit for November improved to $2.9 billion (1.61 billion pounds), compared to October’s revised record gap of $4.55 billion (2.53 billion pounds).
Dec. 26, 1988
The nation’s record trade deficit began to shrink in the final three months of 1987 as U.S. exports climbed 6% to record levels, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
Feb. 25, 1988
Japan’s trade surplus declined in March for the third consecutive month, the government said Monday in a report that also showed Japan has slowed its U.S. investments.
May 3, 1988
The U.S. foreign trade deficit for the first quarter of 1988 declined 12.7%, the most dramatic improvement in more than five years, as export growth sharply outpaced a rise in imports, the government said Wednesday.
May 26, 1988
In 1986 this country’s international economic position continued to deteriorate--a deterioration that, if unchecked, almost certainly presages a decline in the American economy and standard of living.
Jan. 23, 1987
Politics
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May 29, 1992