{"id":33331,"date":"2020-08-28T21:53:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=33331"},"modified":"2020-08-28T21:53:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:53:46","slug":"us-merchandise-trade-deficit-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/us-merchandise-trade-deficit-hits-record-high\/08\/28\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"US Merchandise Trade Deficit Hits Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States merchandise trade deficit increased during July to its second-largest level on record, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As imports returned to their pre-COVID-19 levels, the deficit increased to $79.3 billion in July from a revised $71 billion in June, according to data by the Department of Commerce on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imports amounted to $194.3 billion, its highest level since February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, exports also increased by 11.8% on a monthly basis to $115 billion, reaching its highest level since March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States merchandise trade deficit increased during July to its second-largest level on record, Bloomberg reported. As imports returned to their pre-COVID-19 levels, the deficit increased to $79.3 billion in July from a revised $71 billion in June, according to data by the Department of Commerce on Friday. Imports amounted to $194.3 billion, its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6842,6858],"class_list":["post-33331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-us","tag-us-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33333,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33331\/revisions\/33333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}