{"id":37756,"date":"2012-06-08T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/06\/08\/235697\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:57:46","slug":"u-s-trade-deficit-narrowed-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/06\/08\/37756\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. trade deficit narrowed in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, June 8. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in April, as a sharp pullback in imports and exports to the euro zone suggested the region&#8217;s troubles are increasingly washing up on U.S. shores, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. deficit in international trade of goods and services decreased 4.9% to $50.06 billion from an upwardly revised $52.62 billion the month before, the Commerce Department said Friday. The March trade gap was originally reported as $51.83 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had expected the gap to narrow to $49.4 billion.<br \/>\nBoth exports and imports receded from record highs, with sales of U.S. goods and services abroad posting the biggest drop in five months. Exports declined 0.8% to $182.91 billion, while imports fell 1.7% to $232.97 billion.<\/p>\n<p>With the euro zone teetering on the brink of recession, U.S. exports to the debt-laden region have fallen off. Sales to countries using the euro fell 9.8% in April, while imports declined 11.2%. The overall trade gap with the euro area contracted 14.1% to $7.56 billion. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in April, as a sharp pullback in imports and exports to the euro zone suggested the region&#8217;s troubles are increasingly washing up on U.S. shores, according to news reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[12497,12508,12757,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-37756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-deficit","9":"tag-trade","10":"tag-usa","11":"tag-336"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}