美国的贸易逆差问题由来已久。上世纪70年代初,美国开始出现贸易逆差,此后,其数额越来越大,目前已成为世界上最大的贸易逆差国和债务国。2008年,美国贸易逆差达到7287亿美元,如果单算货物贸易逆差则达到8820亿美元(美国的服务贸易有1534亿美 The United States has a long history of trade deficits. Since the early 1970s, the United States began to experience a trade deficit. Since then, its amount has been growing. It has now become the largest trade deficit nation and debtor country in the world. In 2008, the U.S. trade deficit reached 728.7 billion U.S. dollars, with a total deficit of 882 billion U.S. dollars (US $ 153.4 billion U.S. trade in services)