High tariffs were supposed to slash chronically large U.S. trade deficits. Turns out they really didn’t. The nation’s trade deficit fell in 2025 by a meager 0.2% to $901.5 billion, but only due to a ...

The largest monthly U.S. trade deficit is now with Taiwan, the third country in the last four months to have the dubious distinction that was once the sole province of that poster child of trade ...

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 ...

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