Facts around the balance of imports and exports under President Trump and his tariffs can seem impossibly contradictory. For ...

High tariffs were supposed to slash chronically large U.S. trade deficits. Turns out they really didn’t. The nation’s trade deficit fell in 2025 by a meager 0.2% to $901.5 billion, but only due to a ...

As he announced a broad set of new tariffs targeting imports from around the world, President Donald Trump declared his intention to reduce America's trade deficit. "Chronic trade deficits are no ...

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The largest monthly U.S. trade deficit is now with Taiwan, the third country in the last four months to have the dubious distinction that was once the sole province of that poster child of trade ...

Data released Thursday by the Census Bureau showed the overall trade deficit with the world narrowed, the result of an expanding trade surplus in services. The trade deficit in goods was the highest ...

The monthly trade deficit and imports rebounded in November after shrinking significantly in prior months, new data show. Note: Data shows goods and services. Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis. The ...

President Donald Trump’s tariff policies did little to shrink the overall 2025 trade deficit. However, deficits did fall with several major U.S. trading partners including Canada, Japan and South ...