The trade deficit is one of the nation's most serious problems.
In the first 11 months of the year the total trade deficit was £27bn.
The country is also running a huge trade deficit for its size, nearly $1 billion in 1986.
With the trade deficit already too large, who needs this?
In 1986, China had a trade deficit of $5.7 billion.
If so, it could provide even more help with the nation's trade deficit, but not much.
It also plans to cut in half the trade deficit of $28 billion expected for 1994.
During the 1990s, the country often ran small trade deficits.
The trade deficit was still nearly $3 billion in January.
Others believe that trade deficits are good for the economy.
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.