Look at the current Top U.S. Trade Partners tables (click on the following link to go to the URL address with the publication: https://www.census.gov/foreign- trade/statistics/highlights/top/top2112yr.html ).

8. What does the year-to-date surplus table represent? 9. Take a look at the list of countries listed in the "surplus" table. Do you see a difference with most of the countries listed in the other tables? Can you explain this difference? 10. What does the year-to-date- deficit table represent? What does it mean for China's number to be -$355.3 billion dollars?