The United States is worried by its widening trade deficit with Israel, a top U.S. trade official said. “U.S. exports to Israel have fallen every year since 2000 to the point where the deficit is approaching $6 billion,” the undersecretary of commerce, Kenneth Juster, told Reuters on Wednesday.
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