The U.S. trade deficit with some countries fell in 2025, but rising AI-driven imports kept the overall trade gap nearly unchanged.

2025 was supposed to be the turning point. After nearly a trillion dollars in annual trade deficits, America was ready to change course. In his second term, Donald Trump put tariffs at the center of his economic agenda.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. trade deficit narrowed more than expected in August as businesses imported fewer goods against the backdrop of higher tariffs, a trend that if sustained could be a potential tailwind for economic growth in the third quarter.

For months, President Donald Trump has insisted that America's huge trade deficit could be tamed with one blunt tool: tariffs. In September, the numbers finally moved his way. New figures from the Census Bureau on Thursday show the U.S. trade deficit ...

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The U.S. trade deficit with the world will set a record in 2025, which will be the fourth record in Trump’s five years in office, according to my analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. It will surpass the $1.16 trillion record set in the last year of ...

As was the case in the Trump 1.0 administration, a key policy objective of the Trump 2.0 administration is to reduce the trade deficit and to bring manufacturing jobs back home. However, as was the case in the first Trump administration, the second Trump ...

President Trump is adhering to economic theory with regard to his tariff policies and trade deficits; with time it will pay off. He understands that America’s perennial trade deficits predispose to our budget deficits, which merely increases America’s ...