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 -- 贸易盈余，贸易顺差
Note that assuming take-it-or-leave-it offers by the buyers (when a buyer and a seller meet) implies that the buyer appropriates all the trade surplus from the match.
In essence, the party would trade surplus votes of poor and working-class voters in safe constituencies for the pivotal votes of affluent business and professional people in marginal districts.
In 1997, the industry accounted for a £2,292 million trade surplus from £5,484 million in exports.
In 1980, our exports in this sphere totalled £745 million and our imports £222 million, giving a major trade surplus.
It is highly unusual that there should be a trade surplus on visible trade.
Earlier, we had some discussion of the size of the current trade surplus, the level of invisible earnings, and so on.
It shows the crude trade surplus or deficit with some major trading partners.
I will not engage in threatening talk about the immediate prospects but during the last five months we have lost our trade surplus.
