U.S. had a $1.2 trillion goods trade deficit in 2025, similar to previous year. Top trade deficits for U.S. in 2025: China ($202B), Mexico ($197B), Vietnam ($178B). Largest U.S. trade surpluses: ...

The trade deficit they exist to shrink widened 13.7% from July's revised $92.8 billion to $105.6 billion, the Commerce Department said Tuesday, its widest since March 2025, when importers were buying ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Forbes Senior Contributor. 30+ Years Wall Street Career. Professor. With some rare open time during spring break, I had the ...

Economists have been vindicated in their prediction that tariffs would hardly affect the overall balance of trade.

Some policymakers have prioritized reducing the U.S. trade deficit, arguing that Americans are losing on trade, and pointing to the deficit as evidence. But economists disagree on whether it actually ...

The BEA released data today on US international transactions for the fourth quarter and for the year 2012. For all of last year, the US had a current account or “trade” deficit for goods and services ...

In a Forbes article today (“Donald Trump’s Trade Policies: Blessing Or Curse?“) Forbes contributor Stuart Anderson features comments from Mercatus Center Senior Fellow Dan Griswold and me as he tries ...

Japan's trade balance for September recorded a deficit of 536.5 billion yen. Exports also increased by 16.7% compared to the ...

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 ...