In 2025, the United States had a goods trade deficit with 97 countries and a surplus with 136. Overall, it ran a $1.2 trillion trade-in-goods deficit that year. That's largely in line with 2024, even ...
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If a genie granted economists one wish, arguably the first thing we’d request is to strike the term “trade deficit” from our vocabulary (ok, fair, eliminating poverty may be a better choice, but ...