If the United States and France are both on the international gold standard and U.S. exports to
France exceed United States imports from France, gold will ﬂow from the United States to France.

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Under the gold standard, if the U.S. exports more to France than it imports from France, gold would flow from France to the U.S. to balance the trade, as France would need to pay for its net imports from the U.S.

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