{"id":438819,"date":"2011-06-09T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/09\/us-exports-shrink-trade-deficit\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T14:47:52","slug":"us-exports-shrink-trade-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/us-exports-shrink-trade-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"US exports shrink trade deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"50.5494505495\"><span><span>9 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>10:47 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exports of US goods and services rose to a record $2.2bn (\u00a31.3bn) in April, helping to shrink its trade deficit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/foreign-trade\/Press-Release\/current_press_release\/ft900.pdf\">Data from the Commerce Department<\/a> showed the gap between imports and exports fell by 6.7% to $43.7bn as manufacturers shipped more items such as computers.<\/p>\n<p>A fall in imports also helped narrow the gap, although that reflected supply problems caused by Japan&#8217;s earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>The trade gap so far this year is still 10% higher than last year.<\/p>\n<p>Exports rose 1.3% to a record $175.6bn, while imports dipped 0.4% to $219.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Imports from Japan fell by 25.5%, although these are expected to recover over the months as Japanese factories and infrastructure is rebuilt.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts expect the trade gap to widen slightly over the year.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest deficit is with China. The figures for April showed that widen by almost 20% to $21.6bn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-13717438\" title=\"US exports shrink trade deficit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US exports shrink trade deficit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 9 June 2011 Last updated at 10:47 ET Exports of US goods and services rose to a record $2.2bn (\u00a31.3bn) in April, helping to shrink its trade deficit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":418014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US exports shrink trade deficit - 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