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Current-Account Balance, Fourth Quarter The U.S. current-account deficit decreased to $112.4 billion (preliminary) in the fourth quarter of 2016 from $116.0 billion (revised) in the third quarter of 2016, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
Figure 1 shows the U.S. trade balance. In the figure, gray bars denote recession periods. The thick red line shows the real trade balance, while the thin blue line shows the nominal trade balance. As you can see, the United States has been running a trade deficit at least since the early 1990s.In 2007, the U.S. ran a trade deficit of $708.5 billion (nominal).igure 2 below shows trade balance as a percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the U.S. In 2004:Q4, the trade balance was close to -5.9 percent of GDPâthe lowest point shown in Figure 2. However, this trend has reversed a bit, as the trade balance as a percent of GDP fell in magnitude to -4.24 percent in 2008:Q1.