
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 25, 1993                   TAG: 9308250131
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. TRADE HIT RECORD $1 TRILLION, IMF SAYS

U.S. imports and exports hit $1 trillion for the first time last year, the International Monetary Fund reported, as world trade rose to a record $3.8 trillion.

It put U.S. imports at $552.62 billion and exports at $447.4 billion, for a deficit of $105.22 billion. Both exports and imports were larger than those of any other country.

Japan, though it had less trade, had a surplus of $107.04 billion.

The figures are higher than those issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which put total U.S. trade at $980.7 billion. The fund adjusts what it includes in the figures to conform with comparable results from its 178 member countries.

- Associated Press

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