With attention focused on the impact of tariffs on goods trade, the recent decline in services exports has gone largely unnoticed. But that has already knocked a few tenths off GDP growth and, with the weakness concentrated in sectors in which the US has a strong comparative advantage, it is not a great sign for the longer-run outlook.
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