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
It is important, and it produces a trade surplus of about £2.7 billion; equally importantly, it develops medicines of enormous benefit to patients the world over.
The trade surplus in television sets is something of which we should be more aware than we are.
Last year, the industry had a balance of trade surplus of about £50 million, with total exports worth about £200 million.
In the 17th century acquisition of bullion was so commended, followed soon by activities leading to a trade surplus.
In 1979 the company earned a trade surplus of £700 million.
Pharmaceuticals, of course, as has been mentioned, are second only to oil in their export value to this country—a £2 billion trade surplus in 1995.
We must either control the private export of capital, or, somehow or other, achieve this larger trade surplus which is now imposed upon us.
I will not engage in threatening talk about the immediate prospects but during the last five months we have lost our trade surplus.
