Trade surplus: When a country exports more goods and services than it imports.
How to apply it: Connect a trade surplus to a current account surplus and explain how it corresponds to capital outflows in the financial account.
Course: AP Macroeconomics · Unit: Open Economy: International Trade and Finance
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