thebuyingandsellingofgoods, but notservices, betweencountries:Themedianforecastwas for avisibletradedeficitof $1.3billion.(Definition ofvisible tradefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvisible trade
visible tradeVisibletraderecorded imports and exports of physical goods (entries for trade in physical goods excluding services is now often called the "merchandise balance").FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.I began this particular passage by saying thatvisibletradeonly was concerned.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0What has happened tovisibletrade—depending always on the base year—is that it has declined basically 15 times.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In recent monthsvisibletradehas shown a surplus averaging over ￡40 million a month.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In the case ofvisibletradethe first six months revealed a deficit of ￡156 million.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Customs declarations, the current source of the statistics ofvisibletrade, will no longer be available.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0During that same period our exports amounted to ￡873 million, so that the crude deficit onvisibletrade for the six months was only ￡75 million sterling.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We may therefore expect that our total balance of payments will show better results than that derived from ourvisibletradealone.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Our balance ofvisibletradeis being produced by an expanding volume in that trade.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I shall have something more to say later about the changing pattern these figures point to in ourvisibletradeand about our invisible earnings.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/visible-trade##
