The Trump administration has issued ‘America First Trade Policy’, the most damaging trade policy since the Smoot Hawley ...

Trump has always been concerned about a lack of reciprocity with US trade partners, believing that is why the US has been ...

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

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

Australia is one of the few countries the US has a trade surplus with. Here's why that could help make the country's case for a tariff exemption.

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

The United States ran historically large trade deficits during the 2000s and accumulated large debts to both official and private foreign lenders. This development has raised doubts in many ...

The trade balance showed a marked improvement in December 2024, registering a deficit of only N$119 million, according to the Namibia Statistic Agency’s latest trade statistics bulletin. This is a ...

particularly regarding trade deficits. Claims suggest that the United States faces significant trade imbalances, with a $55 billion deficit with Canada and a $157 billion deficit with Mexico.

To lower the trade deficit directly, tariffs are not a great tool. That excludes any impact from countermeasures. Countermeasures would hit the US on the export side and consequently could reduce ...

Washington DC [US], February 2 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Sunday criticised the trade deficits that the US has with Canada, Mexico, China, and argued that America should no longer "subsidise" ...