Business US trade deficit widens WASHINGTON (AP): THE US trade deficit widened by a record amount in March as exports of US aircraft and other manufactured goods fell while American purchases of foreign consumer goods from toys to clothing soared. LDCs sign investment treaties PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CANA: TEN OF the world's poorest countries, mostly from francophone Africa, signed 22 bilateral investment treaties (BIT) in Brussels yesterday with developed and other developing countries, paving the way for increased FDI... |