U.S. Trade Deficit Newsletter
-
What Republicans won’t tell you about the US trade deficit with Canada | Opinion
15 Apr 2025 08:28 GMT
Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana gave a floor speech in the Senate on March 26 about the trade deficit between the U.S. and Canada. This is part of what he said: “In 2024, the United States sold to the people of Canada about $350 billion in goods. Canada …
-
$50-a-barrel oil is a problem for the U.S. trade deficit
13 Apr 2025 04:14 GMT
Here's an economic truth that fossil fuel detractors rarely talk about: The U.S. oil industry has done more to reduce its country’s trade deficit than any other.
Thanks to geological luck, engineering prowess and shrewd capitalism, the shale revolution …
-
US$50-a-barrel oil is a problem for the US trade deficit
13 Apr 2025 16:32 GMT
… president George W. Bush. The US trade deficit was running then at about … about the size of the US trade deficit with France, with all its … efficient tool to reduce the US trade deficit over the past 20 years …
-
The U.S. trade deficit and Donald Trump’s complaint
11 Apr 2025 13:47 GMT
Adam Smith enlightened the science of economics when he discovered that the division of labor and cooperation were the sources of the wealth of nations. Smith used the example of a workshop of artisans making pins: some cutting the wire, others sharpening …
-
U.S. trade deficit is actually a sign of strength
11 Apr 2025 05:10 GMT
When President Donald Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs on imported goods on April 2 – upending global trade and sending markets into a tailspin – he presented the move as a response to a crisis. In an executive order released the same day, the White …
-
Major Alaska energy deal involving Japan, South Korea, Taiwan could narrow US trade deficit
12 Apr 2025 04:59 GMT
… Taiwan could help narrow the US trade deficit with these countries, US Secretary …
-
Donald Trump - US trade deficit with China is less than $300 billion, not $1 trillion, as Donald Trump said
11 Apr 2025 20:35 GMT
… the U.S. and the U.S. trade deficit with China are both well … the U.S., nor the U.S. trade deficit with China, approached $1 trillion … administration.
And the widest annual U.S. trade deficit with China in goods and …
-
From Anchor to Anvil: America’s Drift Away from the System It Built
16 Apr 2025 00:35 GMT
… one accepts that reducing the U.S. trade deficit is a legitimate goal, there …
-
Trump Confronts Cheating China
16 Apr 2025 00:21 GMT
… its way to prosperity, the U.S. trade deficit with China has ballooned exponentially …
-
Nigeria becomes 23rd country to enforce AfCFTA tariff commitments
15 Apr 2025 22:53 GMT
… nations contribute little to the U.S. trade deficit but now face disproportionately high …