trade balance

Discipline: Economics

Also known as: visible trade

The balance between a country's total exports and imports.

Economists tend to favor a 'positive' balance of trade, where exports exceed imports, and thus point to a trade surplus. This is as opposed to an unfavorable state of trade deficit, where imports exceed exports.

Also see:

· absorbtion approach
· j-curve
· trade deficit
· trade surplus

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