Tariffs Will Destroy the Best Cure for the Trade Deficit
US exports not only reduce deficits, they also bring higher-paying jobs and greater innovation. A tariff-driven trade war ...
KCRW15d
Wage disparities and higher valued imports help explain the current agricultural trade deficit
Up until the last three or four years, there has been a historical surplus in agricultural trade, explains Resnick. The projected deficit in agricultural products in 2025 is $50 billion. To understand ...
Forbes17d
Underpinning Trump’s Tariff-Based Trade Wars Are Misunderstood Trade Deficits
Two decades analyzing U.S. trade data by port, country, export, import Trade deficits. Underpinning President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff-led trade wars with Colombia, with Canada ...
Wall Street Journal17d
Trade Deficits Are Capital Surpluses
The Commerce Department reported a record $918.4 billion U.S. trade deficit in 2024. President Trump believes a trade deficit is harmful to the American economy because it signifies that the U.S ...
Wall Street Journal17d
Trade Deficits Are Capital Surpluses
Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters/Amanda R. Gray/U.S. Navy The Commerce Department reported a record $918.4 billion U.S. trade deficit in 2024. President Trump believes a trade deficit is harmful to ...
Foreign Policy18d
Trump Is Undermining the Canadians Most Sympathetic to Him
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Mint18d
Mint Primer: Can a ‘zero-for-zero’ approach thwart reciprocal tariffs?
The plan allows the US to raise tariffs on countries with which the US has a trade deficit. If the reciprocal tariffs are imposed uniformly on all imports, experts said that Indian exports will ...
The Motley Fool19d
The U.S. Trade Balance With Every Country
The U.S. had a $1.2 trillion goods trade deficit in 2024, and the largest deficits were with China and Mexico. The U.S. showed trade surpluses in 2024 with countries like the Netherlands and Hong ...
Foreign Affairs19d
The Incoherent Case for Tariffs
Trump’s view seems to be that tariffs can be used to fix anything. They can raise tax revenue from foreigners to replace domestic taxes, eliminate the trade deficit by rebalancing trade, ensure ...
Al Jazeera English19d
Why China isn’t as worried about Trump’s trade war as in 2018
in a bid to reduce the US trade deficit. The US president has also moved at lightning speed. In the span of about a month, Trump rolled out tariffs on goods worth $1.4 trillion, compared with ...
Mint19d
Trade war: How best to brace for the return of ‘beggar thy neighbour’ policies
This seems to have shaped his views against other countries using industrial policies and subsidies that resulted, as he has argued, in large trade deficits for the US, which he considers a sign ...
BusinessWorld19d
Agri trade deficit narrows 2.8% to $1 billion in Jan.
THE deficit in the trade of agricultural goods in January narrowed 2.8% year on year to $1 billion, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Agricultural exports in January rose to $715 ...