'The trade deficit on goods in the first three months of the year was £7.1bn.' Explain the meaning of this statement.
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Bernice Berschader 'The trade deficit on goods in the first three months of the year was £7.1bn.' (a) Explain the meaning of this statement. The above statements states that between January and March 1999 the UK lost £7.1 billion on trade, as a result of a trade deficit or current account deficit on the Balance of Payments. A Current Account deficit is where imports into a country exceed exports. This leads to a disequilibrium of injections and withdrawals. Withdrawals from the circular flow of income exceed injections into the circular flow of income. Though the current account consists of 4 elements, visible goods, invisible services, net income and investment income, the statement above discusses the deficit of an element of the current account, the visible goods element Even though a current account deficit results in the value of imported goods exceeds the value of exported goods, the demands for exports and...

