For the fifth straight year, the U.S. merchandise trade deficit with the world topped $1 trillion, according to Census Bureau data released Thursday, despite President Trump’s best efforts to bring it ...

Trade deficit used to be a number that received a ton of attention in the 1980s and 1990s because it was determined to be a strong gauge of the strength and weakness in the US economy. The February ...

The data is expected to be part of future economic talks as Dhaka continues engagement with regional partners, including ...

Facts around the balance of imports and exports under President Trump and his tariffs can seem impossibly contradictory. For example, the trade deficit during the last 14 months of President Biden's ...

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 ...

Recently released data covering the whole of 2025 contain good news. The trend for the trade deficit over the course of the year and one measure of foreign investment into the US both offer numbers ...

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People skate on the frozen snow with the Supreme Court in the background on Jan. 29 in D.C. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) President Donald Trump justified his tariff offensive last year as a ...

The president seems as intent on tariffs as ever and argues that his trade agenda is succeeding, despite little evidence to support it By Ana Swanson Ana Swanson has written about international trade ...