President Donald Trump has demonized the trade deficit. And he’s argued that tariffs can help boost American exports and ...

Economists say that if if foreigners buy fewer American goods, then the US federal government needs to spend less, but that's ...

To put the issue in perspective, the last time the US ran a trade surplus (i.e., exports exceeding imports) was 1975; and while we’ve had deficits since then, over the last 15 years or so ...

The US merchandise-trade deficit narrowed in February for the first time in four months on stronger exports, though high ...

The U.S. ran a smaller trade deficit in goods in February, as exports increased and imports fell. The goods trade deficit fell by 4.9% to $147.9 billion last month, down from $155.6 billion a month ...

It is common in current US political discourse to hear it asserted, as an incontrovertible truth, that the US economy is ...

President Trump is tariff-happy. The impetus for his trade war is the U.S. trade deficit, a deficit that he believes is the result of foreigners taking advantage of the United States through ...