Belgium ( b ) Denmark Germany Greece Spain France Ireland Italy Luxembourg ( b ) Netherlands Austria Portugal Finland Sweden United Kingdom EU 15 ( c )

CAMBRIDGE China s trade balance is on course for another bumper surplus this year. 160

Wall Street rises, the commercial balance of the US feeds optimism

( b ) Corresponding figures for BLEU are for the trade balance 2.7 , 4.1 , 3.9 , 4.2

European Commission figures show that trade and current account balances for the EU improved further in 1997 ( see Table 3 )

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Asia s formerly huge external surpluses have declined astonishingly fast, and Japan s trade balance has even slipped into deficit.

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And as the transatlantic trade imbalance widens further, ever larger capital flows will be needed to keep pushing the euro down.

Sustained cost moderation has a favourable impact on structural employment beyond the positive effect of improved competitiveness and better trade performance .

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The dollar s real trade weighted value already is more than 25 lower than it was a decade ago, notwithstanding the problems in Europe and in other countries.

Peter Cardillo of Avalon Partners thinks that investors have concentrated particularly on America's commercial balance figures, which show an improvement in activity in the fourth quarter .

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In effect, America s trade balance is like a water balloon applying pressure on one spot would simply cause the water to slosh elsewhere.

The current account deficit is increasing relentlessly, owing to a widening trade deficit (now at 13 of GDP), raising the danger of a balance of payments crisis.

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The euro area current account balance and trade in goods ( EUR billions

As the President of the Council, Mr Andreotti, said yesterday, the balance of trade between the United States, the Cairns Group and the European Community is in fact in their favour and not in ours.

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1 ) Balance of payments statistics .