1. The country's trade surplus widened to 16.5 billion dollars.

2. We have a trade surplus of 400 million.

3. The chemical industry has a large and growing trade surplus.

4. Japan's annual trade surplus is in the region of 100 billion dollars.

5. The trade surplus is more than $ 65 billion.

6. A trade surplus means more products are being exported than imported.

7. Such distortions lead to a persistent trade surplus and a persistently rising yen.

8. Promises to open markets and promises that trade surpluses will shortly disappear have been made too often to be believed.

9. In fact, our trade surplus in Scotch is three times greater than our trade surplus in oil.

10. From 1880 to 1914, the classic gold standard also applied internationally to offset trade surpluses and deficits.

11. That compares with a $ 18. 5 billion trade surplus the year before.

12. Under the Conservatives, Britain has moved from manufacturing trade surplus to manufacturing trade deficit.

13. It will try to do so by explaining the nature and future of the country's trade surplus.