Learn what a trade deficit is, how it affects economies and markets, and why it might not always signal a weak economy.

China posted a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025, despite steep tariffs imposed by President Trump on the country’s ...

The $5.7-billion deficit in the Philippines’s balance of payments (BOP) in 2025, a reversal of the $609-million surplus ...

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. President Donald Trump has cited a $40 billion trade deficit with Switzerland to justify a new, high tariff on imported Swiss goods. But ...

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 he ...

China's trade surplus hit a record $1.2 trillion in 2025. Trump had always prefaced his tariffs by pointing to China's trade ...

Pakistan posts $244m current account deficit in December after November surplus, as rising imports outweigh exports.

LONDON (Reuters) -Demand for cobalt will rise faster than supply, allowing the market to reduce the 2024 surplus in coming years and swing to a deficit in the early 2030s, the Cobalt Institute said in ...

THE PHILIPPINES’ balance of payments (BoP) deficit in 2025 settled below the central bank’s full-year forecast despite posting a wider deficit in December.

China’s exports to India have grown by 13.46 per cent between the first nine months of the 2024-2025 financial year and the ...

President Trump claims a main goal of his crippling tariffs is to address the U.S. trade deficit. So is the U.S. trade deficit a problem? On... What's so bad about a trade deficit? President Trump ...

It is not hard to find evidence of China’s massive trade surplus. China’s exports of cars has surged to well over 6 million cars (or about a tenth of the global auto market outside of China), and are ...