Trade surplus narrows in 2010
China's global trade surplus narrowed in 2010 for the second straight year, giving Beijing grounds to rebuff US pressure for faster currency appreciation ahead of a visit to Washington next week by President Hu Jintao.
Britain's goods trade deficit with the rest of the world was wider than expected in April, after disruption to air traffic as a result of the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud hit both exports and imports, official data showed on Wednesday.The Office for National Statistics said Britain's goods trade deficit with the rest of the world widened to 7.279 billion pounds in April up from a downwardly revised 7.259 billion in March and the biggest since January.