The most recent figures placed the trade gap at $15.7 billion in August.

Instead, the trade gap has created increased pressure for the dollar to drop even further.

This year, the trade gap with China alone is running at $25 billion a month.

But what does the trade gap say about the American economy?

Still, the trade gap for all of 1999 set a record, $271.3 billion.

But even with the new Cherokee, the trade gap is not about to go away.

At that rate the trade gap will never go away.

Economists said the growing trade gap was likely to damp economic growth.

Suppose the trade gap comes down by $600 million a month.

Many said they believed the second quarter represented the low point for the trade gap.