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 ...

The February trade report is another strong signal that the American economy is being rewired in exactly the right direction. Yes, the headline deficit ticked up to $57.3 billion from January’s ...

The value of stuff the U.S. imported (like passenger vehicles) rose, but so did the value of stuff it exported (like oil and agricultural products). In the midst of a tumultuous world economy — ...

In a briefing before his State of the Union address, President Trump claimed that the U.S. has “the greatest economy we’ve ever had.” But most of the economic statistics he cites don’t back up his ...

Trade deficit used to be a number that received a ton of attention in the 1980s and 1990s because it was determined to be a strong gauge of the strength and weakness in the US economy. The February ...

President Donald Trump is crediting his tariffs for monthly jobs growth and a smaller year-over-year trade deficit. “Not only were the jobs numbers GREAT yesterday, 178,000 new jobs, but the TRADE ...

Your editorial “The Embarrassing Truth About Tariffs” (Review & Outlook, Feb. 20) notes that American households and businesses have borne nearly 90% of the cost of the Trump tariffs but neglects to ...