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

President Donald Trump's trade agenda has focused on deploying tariffs to address the trade deficit with other countries, though economists say it's unlikely to narrow that gap.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traded policy complaints with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng on Friday, telling Beijing ...

The U.S. State Department has changed references to China on its website, emphasising the trade deficit in an expanded ...

India's trade deficit stood at $16.5bn a year ago and exports also shrunk by 2.4% year-on-year to $36.43bn in January.

Much of this is in the pursuit of a single goal: Shrinking the U.S. trade deficit. A mercantilist, Mr. Trump sees international commerce as a zero-sum game. If a country imports more than it ...

BENN STEIL is a Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century ...

The widening merchandise trade deficit at $23 billion in January from $16.5 billion a year ago has raised concerns of dumping ...

Japan’s trade deficit increased significantly to JPY 2,758.78 billion in January 2025 from JPY 1,766.54 billion in the same ...

Cargo cranes remove containers in Tacoma, Washington, in November 2019. (Ted S. Warren/AP) The prevailing dislike for imports among America’s political class has an old and bipartisan pedigree.

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.