So analysts think smaller trade surpluses could be here to stay – although the shift isn't likely to be severe enough to traumatize the U.S. bond market.
Aiming at the shortage of visbreaker feedstock and fuel oil as well as the surplus of asphalt in Shanghai Oil Refinery, asphalt blended feedstock was tested.
In the section on monopolistic competition and efficiency, the text notes that monopolistic competition “supports a surplus of firms that mostly underutilize their capacity.”
Literally millions of innocent peasants starved or died of disease, especially in Ukraine, while surplus grain was exported overseas to raise funds for industrial growth.
In fact, and it's possible that in future the house may even generate an electricity surplus, and that the owners will be able to sell some to the national grid.
After raising children, women are sometimes thought to be surplus to excess, something which is more than needed, or in other words, surplus to requirements - a phrase meaning 'no longer required'.