If the price of oil had remained at $65 a barrel, the cost of the same volume of imports would have been only $179 billion, and the trade deficit would have been one-fifth lower.
Kdyby cena ropy zůstala na 65 dolarech za barel, náklady na tentýž objem dovozů by činily jen 179 miliard dolarů a deficit obchodu by byl o pětinu nižší.