More generally, a larger budget deficit will require the government to borrow more money, which drives up interest rates.

The great economist John Maynard Keynes once proposed an international system to eliminate trade surpluses and deficits. Now ...

Trade disruptions are behind the decline in first-quarter GDP.

Imports surged as firms and consumers scrambled to bring goods into the country before the worst of Mr Trump’s tariffs took ...

Trade deficits occur when we buy more than we sell to a country. They sound bad, but they are neither good nor bad. The United States has the strongest economy by GDP, the strongest consumer ...

In my oral radio commentary for Friday, April 18, I decided NOT to make any comments on the craziness of Trump’s on again off again tariff war with the rest of the world. When he introduced what ...

Likewise, if a country has a savings deficiency, like the United States, it will register a trade deficit. The United States’ negative trade balance, which the country has registered every year ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, Brazil recorded a trade deficit with China in the first two months of 2025, driven by a sharp increase in Chinese imports, including solar panels and ...

A trade deficit means that imports are greater than exports from one country to another. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us ...

Conversely, the trade deficit with China has widened significantly due to decreased exports, particularly in ore, and a surge in imports. This reflects changing global trade patterns and India's ...

It is clear that the United States is running a trade deficit vis-à-vis the rest of the world. It currently sits at about $900 billion, or about 3% of GDP. This means that we are consuming more ...