In contrast to ongoing trade imbalances with China and Japan, the United States trade deficit with Mexico declined by $500 million as a result of record exports to that country.

(A) In contrast to the ongoing trade imbalances with China and Japan, the United States trade deficit with Mexico declined by $500 million as a result of record exports to that country.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this questions, we need to do comparison. We are given five options from A to E which I have posted in the additional details below the problem statement.

The trade imbalance of United States is compared with trade imbalance of China and Japan. It is improper to compare trade deficit with some other country so except option (A) all other options involve that which means that only Option (A) is correct. Moreover, option (A) it is comparing trade imbalances and a trade imbalance of a country and the comparison is correct

B) compares trade imbalance and a country (so incorrect)

C) Same as (B)

D) Same issue as (B)

E) 'Compared to' is used show similarity b/w dissimilar things. so it is incorrectly used here.

Hence the correct answer is (A) In contrast to the ongoing trade imbalances with China and Japan, the United States trade deficit with Mexico declined by $500 million as a result of record exports to that country.