America's overall visible-trade deficit has been hitting new highs recently.

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But Somalia's lawlessness is visible in the booming charcoal trade, which is annihilating what's left of the country's trees.

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This conclusion is not obvious to most people because jobs lost because of imports (or outsourcing, or factories relocating abroad) are more visible and more easily associated with trade than the jobs created by exports.

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Dim-sum bonds have been the Chinese government's most visible effort to allow its currency to trade outside the country.

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Prices will be visible to everyone, and millions of individuals will be able to trade almost any instrument, anywhere.

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Its impact was clearly visible in Italy at Vicenzaoro, the world's largest gold jewellery trade fair, which ended on January 18th.

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The brand in question, visible on the left breast of Mr Hamilton's firesuit, is Aigo, the trade name of the Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Company.

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