visible trade
noun[U]
ECONOMICSukusthebuyingandsellingofgoods, but notservices, betweencountries:
Themedianforecastwas for avisibletradedeficitof $1.3billion.
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visible trade
Visibletraderecorded imports and exports of physical goods (entries for trade in physical goods excluding services is now often called the "merchandise balance").
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What has happened tovisibletrade—depending always on the base year—is that it has declined basically 15 times.
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In recent monthsvisibletradehas shown a surplus averaging over £40 million a month.
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In the case ofvisibletradethe first six months revealed a deficit of £156 million.
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Customs declarations, the current source of the statistics ofvisibletrade, will no longer be available.
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During that same period our exports amounted to £873 million, so that the crude deficit onvisibletrade for the six months was only £75 million sterling.
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We may therefore expect that our total balance of payments will show better results than that derived from ourvisibletradealone.
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Our balance ofvisibletradeis being produced by an expanding volume in that trade.
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I shall have something more to say later about the changing pattern these figures point to in ourvisibletradeand about our invisible earnings.
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