He US deficit In its foreign trade of goods and services it fell 4% in January, compared to the same period a year before, and stood at 67.4 billion dollars, reported this Thursday the Office of Economic Analysis (BEA, in English).
The deficit in commercial exchange of goods and services in December it had been 64,168 million dollars, according to BEA.
The 5.1% growth from December to January was the highest in nine months and exceeded economists' estimates who had expected a deficit of about $63.5 billion.
In January, exports increased by 0.1% and reached a value of 257.2 billion dollars, while imports rose 1.1% to a value of 324.6 billion dollars.
In January, the trend continued whereby in 2023, for the first time in two decades, the exchange of goods and services between the United States and Mexico was greater than that trade with China.
In the first month of this year, the US exported goods to China for 12,073 million dollars and bought goods from that country for 35,794 million dollars, which gives a negative balance of 23,721 million dollars. In December the difference had been 22,085 million dollars.
In turn, the United States exported goods to Mexico for 26,481 million dollars and imported goods from the neighboring country for 38,042 million dollars, this is a deficit of 11,561 million dollars. In December the US deficit was 12,799 million dollars.
The BEA report shows in January a global growth of 3,000 million dollars in the negative balance for goods, which stood at 91,600 million dollars, and a decrease of 300 million dollars in the surplus of trade in goods, which It stood at 24.20 million dollars.
Goods exports in January rose by $200 million to reach a value of $171.8 billion, while the value of goods imports rose by $3.1 billion to $263.4 billion.
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