Sentences with phrase «trade deficit sank»

The numbers: The trade deficit sank 15 % in March to the lowest level in six months, but the decline is likely just temporary.

The U.S. trade deficit sank 15 percent in March to $ 49 billion, its lowest amount in six months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

The trade deficit sank 15 % in March to $ 49 billion to mark the lowest level in six months, but the decline is likely just temporary.

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U.S. trade deficit contracts unexpectedly as petroleum imports sink to a three - and - a-half-year low.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).