0 a situation in which the value of goods a country exports (= sells to other countries) is greater than the value of goods it imports (= buys from other countries), or the size of this difference
1 a situation in which the value of goods that a country exports is more than the value of goods it imports, or the size of this difference:
In 1987 the industry had a balance of trade surplus of £2 billion.
In both those high-tech sectors, moreover, the country is running a trade surplus of over £2 billion.
By definition manufactured goods—manufactured by utilising the new technologies—are tradeable and vital to any return to a balance of trade surplus.
We had a manufacturing trade surplus and unemployment was less than 350,000.
The oil trade surplus will have almost certainly reached its peak this year.
There was a deficit of £1·2 billion, within the context of an overall trade surplus of £103 million.
Until 1986, we had a trade surplus, but during the last three years we have been in deficit.
He said that a manufacturing trade surplus of £5 billion in 1978 was reduced to a deficit of £7 billion last year.
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