But England's adverse balances of trade in themselves are nothing at which to be frightened.

What do you think of this adverse balance of trade?"

It must in fact be stressed that Nepal has an extremely adverse balance of trade.

But hand in hand with her foreign investments have grown her adverse balances of trade.

The adverse balance was calculated on taxed trade, not on trade conducted.

The British economy suffered more than most from low productivity as well as from an adverse balance of payments.

If the import of goods exceeds exports then the country is said to have an adverse balance of trade or a trading deficit.

The Labour Government was haunted constantly by economic difficulties, largely caused by an adverse balance of payments.

Implementation, however, was slow - not so much from a lack of conviction as from the constraints of the chronic debt and adverse balance of payments situation.

A chronically adverse balance of trade and declining rate of exchange against foreign currencies was also helpful; Brazilian goods were simply cheaper in the Brazilian market.

Also, a high interest rate strategy is partly the result of a high level of world interest rates and partly because of an adverse balance of payments position.

In Jamaica, which has enormous political problems because of its adverse balance of payments, imported energy makes up more than half the cost even of a bag of cement produced locally.

So robust was the India trade 2,000 years ago that Emperor Tiberius, concerned over Rome's increasingly adverse balance of payments, complained that "the ladies and their baubles are transferring our money to foreigners."

In 1838 there was an endeavour to establish monts de piété in Ireland, but the scheme was so unsuccessful that in 1841 the eight charitable pawnshops that had been opened had a total adverse balance of 5340.

Due to the adverse balance of forces, the political situation in Europe and internal conflicts the freedom fight was eventually suppressed, but it succeeded in keeping Hungary from becoming an integral part of the Habsburg Empire, and its constitution was kept, even though it was only a formality.