Economic growth depends on deregulation, tax cuts and the budget deficit, not on the balance of trade.

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The trade balance with the world's leading power worsened in the last year of Biden. Spain increases its trade deficit with ...

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

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

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

With Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, expected at the White House this week, CNN takes a look at the trade ...

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 ...

Imposing punitive tariffs on countries with high trade surpluses with the United States has been at the heart of US President Donald Trump's economic policy. Trump has lived up to his campaign ...

The balance is usually calculated on trade ... Mexico and China. The United States posted a goods trade deficit of $295 billion with China in 2024, $63 billion with Canada and $172 billion with ...