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Noun: trade balance
  1. The difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise
    "a nation's trade balance is favourable when its exports exceed its imports";
    - balance of trade, visible balance, trade gap

Derived forms: trade balances

Type of: balance

Encyclopedia: Trade balance