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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The ...

Tesla CEO and DOGE Head, Elon Musk, criticised the current state of US spending, saying that an average citizen in the ...

President Trump aims to reshape global trade rules with reciprocal tariffs, potentially leading to chaos for businesses and ...

Economists think the only way to sustainably shrink a trade deficit is through policies that alter the rate of savings and investment. That could mean reducing government deficits or introducing ...

Economist Peter Schiff, renowned for predicting the financial crisis of 2008, supported Donald Trump during the election ...

The value of Irish goods exports in 2024 was up by 14%, a significant milestone as a potential US trade war looms.

A trade deficit occurs when a country's imports exceed ... Such inconsistencies mean that some countries can go from having a surplus to having a deficit. France, for instance, had a goods surplus ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 15 The Washington Post on Trump, tariffs and the trade deficit The prevailing dislike for imports among America’s ...

That would mean U.S. retaliatory tariffs could reach ... tariffs would help reverse the United States' long-standing trade deficits. But tariffs haven't proven successful at narrowing the trade ...