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

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

RASCOE: So does a trade deficit serve as a good measure of a country's economic ... The answer isn't automatically it's bad. There are degrees to which things are more or less important.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's trade deficit with the United States may help it avoid being targeted by tariffs, but the country still faces risks from trade tensions, economists said on Friday (Feb 14).

good or bad, it just means a lot of people are making beneficial decisions," while noting that the U.S. has run trade deficits for more than 50 years. "The U.S. has run a trade deficit every year ...