invisible trade
noun[U]
COMMERCEukusinternationaltradeinservicessuch asbanking,insurance,tourism, etc.,ratherthantradeinphysicalgoods:
Invisibletradeaccountsfor about 26% of thetotalworldtrade.
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invisible trade
Invisibletradewould record international buying and selling of services, and sometimes would be grouped with transfer and factor income as invisible earnings.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Invisibletradeis not separately recorded by country.
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Certain costs will arise from consequential measures affecting our visible andinvisibletrade.
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By 1947 that deficit had increased to £670 million, an increase in which visible andinvisibletradeshared almost equally.
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There are many advanced industries and there may be activities which benefit from the boom ininvisibletradewith other countries.
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And with influence comes trade, and we should not minimise the effect on our visible andinvisibletradeof retrenchment on the scale envisaged.
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Figures relating to volume of trade, andinvisibletradeand tourism with individual countries, are not available.
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Great benefits will also come from the export of goods toinvisibletradesuch as services, intellectual property and investment.
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One result has certainly been that we have in the past had a surplus on ourinvisibletrade.
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We should lose a good slice of ourinvisibletrade, which hangs upon the success of international trade and is of inestimable value to us.
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