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Definition of Trade gap
1. Noun. The difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise. "A nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trade Gap
Literary usage of Trade gap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oecd Economic Surveys: Norway 2007 by Oecd (2007)
"This requires estimating a terms of trade gap in addition to the standard output
gap (summing up to the "real income gap" for a commodity intensive country) ..."
2. The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years, 1999-2008 edited by Sherry Snyder (1998)
"The trade gap has been rising, not because US firms are being pushed out of world
markets but because US markets have been growing more rapidly than world ..."
3. The Pacific by Ranginui Walker, William M. Sutherland (1988)
"Protectionism and the US trade deficit The primary target of US protectionist
threats is Japan, with whom the US suffers the largest trade gap. ..."
4. The Literary Panorama and National Registerby Charles Taylor by Charles Taylor (1816)
"'Stands iu the gap and trade. Gap and trade' ii scarcely right. The images are
so way congruous. To.tfa«dina trade ia likewise harsh. ..."
5. Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union by Richard Felix Staar (1991)
"... developed countries amounted to 30.1 percent of its total, declining to just
23.4 percent during 1988 with a trade gap of about $2.4 billion. ..."
6. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1922)
"... the Merchant Adventurers, controlling trade from Denmark to France, where the
free-trade gap appears; the Levant Company, trading in the Mediterranean; ..."
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