Balance of Trade

The balance of trade, commercial balance, or net exports (sometimes symbolized as NX), is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain time period. Sometimes a distinction is made between a balance of trade for goods versus one for services. The balance of trade measures a flow of exports and imports over a given period of time. The notion of the balance of trade does not mean that exports and imports are "in balance" with each other. If a country exports a greater value than it imports, it has a trade surplus or …

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CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English

The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …

U.S. The fact that we have a “favourable” balance of trade with the U.S. will inevitably be used against


CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English

The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …

U.S. The fact that we have a “favourable” balance of trade with the U.S. will inevitably be used against


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 October 2023 English

Table of Contents Preface Introduction Colony to Nation O Canada A Compromise with Geography, Climate and Diversity The Great White North Settling Canada Resources: “Quelques arpents de neige” A Trading …

of our imports. The U.S. enjoys a positive balance of trade with Canada on the back of its services and


CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 14 June 2023 English

It also ical of many advanced economies, with lit- recommended a long-term perspective on tle scope for further expansion in educa- infrastructure spending, and improvements tional achievement, and a growing …

that R&D spending had migration requires a balance of trade-offs been remarkably weak since 2009, mainly


PIAC: Public Interest Advocacy Centre · 31 March 2023 English

PIAC believes that the ‘modern’ history of Canadian competition law, in the era since the passing of the Competition Act in 1986, and in particular, the flaws in that law …

the purpose of efficiency gains, a better balance of trade, and higher employment, is to allow individual


Wilson Center Canada · 20 March 2023 English

The statements made and views expressed in this paper are solely the responsibility of the author and do not represent the views of the Wilson Center or Brown Capital Management. …

platforms as a trade initiative to “bring back the balance of trade between Africa and China.” The U.S. government


Wilson Center Canada · 20 March 2023 English

The roots of contemporary development practice reside in the immediate post-World War II era, when extraordinary efforts to provide temporary financial and technical assistance for European countries from the ravaging …

was that countries experiencing an adverse balance of trade could be nudged back on a path of macroeconomic


RI: Rideau Institute · 26 January 2023 English

Laurent in the Gray Lecture of 1947.22 The foundations of twentieth-century arms control and military export restraint – including the necessity of proportionality, discrimination, and the laws of war – …

plan was considered necessary to address a balance-of-trade crisis which threatened to ruin the Canadian of economic capital that both improved the balance of trade and subsidized the production of essential


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 October 2022 English

Table of Contents Preface Introduction Colony to Nation The Constitution The Great White North O Canada A Compromise with Geography, Climate and Diversity Settling Canada Resources: “Quelques arpents de neige” …

of our imports. The U.S. enjoys a positive balance of trade with Canada on the back of its services and


CEC / CCA / CCE: Commission for Environmental Cooperation · 22 August 2022 Spanish

I am responding to the CEC announcement because I spent some time, during the first decade of the implementation of the CEC, working quite closely with the Commission on issues …

powerhouse and a major net exporter of food, the US balance of trade (dollar value of exports compared to dollar


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