France and its Partners Confronted with the Second Oil Crisis - The variations in the terms of trade create for the industrialized countries flows of income whose size is growing in relation to domestic production. This evolution can be shown by using a method similar to surplus accounts. The variations of the foreign trade balance of a country are divided into a price variation effect and an effect due to variations in volume. Thus, this method provides a measurement of the transfers of real income caused, on the one hand, by distortions of domestic and foreign prices, and, on the other hand, by the difference between domestic growth and that of imports and exports. The use of this method brings out that France had a reaction to the first ...