How to Use trade surplus in a Sentence

trade surplus

noun

• The sector, which boasts a wide trade surplus with the rest of the world, made it through the first 100 days without a hit.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 May 2025
• All in all, that gives the EU a total trade surplus of just $50 billion.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 14 July 2025
• Including all goods and services, the U.K. has a trade surplus with the U.S.
  — Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
• More than a third of the trade surplus was with the U.S., according to the Financial Times.
  — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
• This is the first year of the 21st century in which the U.S. has not posted a trade surplus in travel.
  — Michael Barclay, Quartz, 12 May 2025
• The United States has run a trade surplus also goes back decades.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
• Japan had a trade surplus with the U.S. and some European countries.
  — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
• Its trade surplus in these goods is equal to a tenth of the entire Chinese economy.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• That will, in turn, cause the trade surplus to shrink as the welfare of domestic households expands.
  — Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
• The difference results in a trade imbalance with a trade deficit for the U.S. and a trade surplus for China.
  — Maria Francis, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
• For example, China has a trade surplus of $295 billion with the US.
  — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
• The flow of trade Arizona enjoys a sizable trade surplus with Ireland.
  — The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2024
• The United States has a trade surplus of $5.4 billion with the Dominican Republic, one of the largest of any country.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
• This resulted in a record Chinese trade surplus with Europe in the first quarter of 2025.
  — Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2025
• The two countries have had a bilateral free trade deal for 20 years, and the U.S. has maintained a trade surplus with Australia for decades.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 July 2025
• The President has since walked back his threats to place tariffs on an industry with a 300% trade surplus.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
• The result is American trade surplus is at a historic low.
  — Bill Mechanic, Deadline, 15 May 2025
• For instance, China could not have achieved its current $800 billion trade surplus in goods if the United States did not have a large trade deficit.
  — Brad Setser, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2024
• Its global trade surplus in goods has soared and is now approaching $1 trillion.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• The aim is not only to close the existing deficit, but to create a significant trade surplus.
  — Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
• The way ahead for China, which runs the largest trade surplus with the U.S., is unclear after talks earlier this week in Stockholm produced no deal.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
• The country’s global trade surplus in goods has soared in recent years and is now approaching $1 trillion.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• Arts and culture exports produce a trade surplus of $21 billion.
  — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2025
• The best estimate for China’s 2024 trade surplus with the U.S. is between one-quarter and one-third of that amount, depending on what metric is used.
  — Louis Jacobson, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• The currency has lost more than a quarter of its value against the dollar this year as Moscow's trade surplus erodes and Russians move money abroad.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023
• To many economists, a trade surplus or deficit isn’t inherently good or bad.
  — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
• India runs a trade deficit in goods that its net trade surplus in services and remittances cannot fully cover.
  — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
• The 2024 trade surplus was over $992 billion.
  — Chan Ho-Him, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
• The 2024 trade surplus was over $992 billion.
  — Chan Ho-Him, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
• China’s annual trade surplus passed $1 trillion, a record high.
  — Joe Ngai, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026