The prevailing dislike for imports among America’s political class has an old and bipartisan pedigree. At least since the ...

President Donald Trump's trade agenda has focused on deploying tariffs to address the trade deficit with other countries, ...

Britain entered a rare deficit in its goods trade with the United States at the end of last year, according to data published ...

Imposing punitive tariffs on countries with high trade surpluses with the United States has been at the heart of US President ...

President Donald Trump has made reducing the trade deficit a central part of his "American First Trade Policy." Here's what ...

The U.S. president sees international trade as a zero-sum game. The truth is more complicated, according to economists ...

Discussions between the US and India have intensified on addressing trade imbalances, with the US raising concerns over India ...

President Donald Trump has long sought to tackle the country's overall trade deficit. The combined goods and services trade deficit hit $918.4 billion in 2024, a big increase from 2023. There hasn ...

That can make it more difficult for US exporters to sell their products. How Trump plans to balance the trade deficit The persistent trade deficit is something Trump has long sought to reverse.

Since the 1960s, tariffs — or import taxes — have emerged from negotiations between dozens of countries. Trump wants to seize ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with economist Mary Lovely of the Peterson Institute about trade deficits and the role they play in international trade.

India’s negotiators found themselves out of aces, appearing to buckle in the face of dire threats from a rampant Trump who ...