陕西宝鸡读者龚继川来信问,我刊今年第四期《日本经济触礁》一文中多次提到的‘贸易黑字’是什么意思。特简答如下。一国在一定时期内(如一年或一季度),其出口贸易总值与进口贸易总值相比,总有一定的差额。若出口部分大于进口部分,就是贸易顺差;若进口部分大于出口部分,就是贸易逆差。人们通常又称贸易顺差 A letter from Gong Baochuan, a reader of Shaanxi Baoji, asked what the ‘trade black print’ that was mentioned many times in the article “The Japanese economy hits the rocks” in the fourth issue of this year. The brief answer is as follows. In a certain period of time (such as a year or a quarter), a country has a certain amount of difference between its total value of export trade and the total value of imports. If the export portion is greater than the import portion, it is a trade surplus; if the import portion is greater than the export portion, it is a trade deficit. People often refer to trade surpluses