The widening in the trade deficit to a near-decade high of $57.6bn in February, from $56.7bn, was entirely due to a one-off royalty payment for broadcasting rights to the Winter Olympics. But net trade is still on course to have subtracted from first-quarter GDP growth and the widening deficit will not have gone unnoticed in the White House.
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