note also that the US only runs a trade deficit in goods; we are a giant services trade surplus nation.

this means that targeting a bilateral goods trade balance of zero with every nation is targeting a total bilateral trade surplus with almost every nation.
It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how utterly stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 334 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus, no trade deficit) with every country in the world.

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