Oil accounts for 40 of exports and contributes to maintaining a positive trade balance.

Its trade balance is positive, and total public debt is not as high as it is in other countries.

Trends in the services trade balance varied.

After all, a weaker currency and better trade balance in some countries necessarily implies a stronger currency and a weaker trade balance in others.

Reconciliation of balance of payments and foreign trade statistics.

External trade and investment Foreign investment and balance of payments Foreign trade and balance of payments In 2001 the current account deficit dropped to about 2.2 of GDP (US 1.17 billion) from 3.1 in 2000 while the trade balance registered a small deficit.

(b) A positive effect on balance of payments of countries and reduced import dependency

Indeed, if foreign owned enterprises exports are deducted from the total trade volume, the surplus vanishes, because both the overall balance of merchandise trade and the balance of trade in services normally run deficits.

The trade balance with Argentina, Colombia, and Asia is negative.

But the carry trade has tended to produce positive returns.

For, excluding oil, Africa has a negative trade balance with China.

Unless the US economy improves its trade balance, the dollar will fall.

But the US cannot improve its trade balance unless the dollar falls.

A country can balance its trade either on a trading partner basis in which total money flows between two countries are equalized or it can balance the overall trade and money flows so that a trade deficit with one country is balanced by a trade surplus with another country.

He stressed the importance of free trade and the elimination of existing trade barriers to allow positive corporate contributions to flourish.

As an immature debtor borrower, its trade balance and current account are also in deficit as a mature debtor borrower, its trade balance enters surplus and, as a debtor repayer, its current account moves to surplus.

To be sure, China s national balance sheet, which boasts positive net assets, has garnered significant attention in recent years.

Japan, for example, has confronted only a 157 billion decline in its annualized trade balance.

As an immature creditor lender, the trade balance and current account are in surplus as well as a mature creditor lender, the trade balance returns to deficit finally, as a creditor borrower, the country s current account swings into deficit.

Manufacturing production has plummeted, the trade balance has deteriorated sharply, and corporate bankruptcies are increasingly frequent.

A key aspect of these development concerns is identifying the appropriate balance in any trade agreement.

On balance, the impact of technological progress will be positive. But that does not negate the massive challenge it will pose.

Breadth, balance and cohesion in the curriculum will be achieved through classroom learning experiences that are positive, challenging, stimulating and enjoyable.

However, studies presented at the meeting suggested a positive relationship between development and trade facilitation indicators.

A slow but gradual positive trend is reflected in the region's ability to improve trade performance.

Furthermore, the saving gap and the trade balance interact with each other constantly, making them always equal.

Many factors other than exchange rates affect a country s trade balance. A key determinant is national savings.

In that case, maintaining a weak renminbi would protect the trade balance from a flood of imports.

At the same time, the effect of currency appreciation on the trade balance should not be exaggerated.

China s current legal framework contributed to fiscal balance and financial stability in the past, and it continues to play a positive role.

The actual positive balance of the General Fund results mainly from an increase in programme support income received from the Special Purpose Grants.

The trouble with currency undervaluation is that, unlike conventional industrial policy, it spills over into the trade balance.

(e) The positive consideration of trade related issues pertaining to the commodity sector in the multilateral trading system

Assume that the euro was set so that trade in the eurozone as a whole was roughly in balance.

That won t happen anytime soon, but it is the direction in which the trade balance must continue to move.

Opening up markets in developed countries is certainly one way of striking a better balance in multilateral trade efforts.

Consider Mexico's trade balance with the US since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. In the years between 1995 and 2002, Mexico's annual trade deficit with the US increased to 1 billion.

Kosovo has a strongly negative balance of trade in 2004, the deficit of the balance of goods and services was close to 70 percent of GDP, and was 39 of GDP in 2011.

Perhaps most important, a weaker dollar s effect on the trade balance, and thus on growth, is limited by two factors.

Empirical studies estimate that the overall impact of a weaker US dollar on the trade balance is close to zero.

This drop is the result of the natural negative balance (of some 3 to 4 per year), while the migratory balance since 1986 has again become positive because of an excess of new immigration over a stable figure for emigration.

The population as a whole has remained stable in the 1990s, although this is the result of a negative natural balance and a positive net migration.

This large, steady fall in the country s trade surplus makes the Chinese government hesitant to allow the RMB to appreciate significantly, for fear of the lagged impact on the trade balance.

To judge whether their prices are too high at the existing exchange rate we have to look at the trade balance.

Although US politicians focus on the bilateral trade deficit with China which is persistently large what matters is the multilateral balance.