If foreign manufacturing costs and profit margins in response to a depreciation in the U.S dollar the effect of these actions is to ?

• A. shorten the amount of time in which the depreciation leads to smaller trade deficit
• B. shorten the amount of time in which the depreciation leads to smaller trade surplus
• C. lengthen the amount of time in which the depreciation leads to smaller trade deficit
• D. lengthen the amount of time in which the depreciation leads to smaller trade surplus