trade deficit

OTTAWA—A retreat in goods exports widened Canada’s trade deficit in August to the second highest on record.

“The euro area’s trade deficit with China has risen by around 10% this year, although this was driven more by weaker Chinese demand than by diverted trade flows,” she said.

A much-weakened yen would be detrimental to the White House’s attempts to narrow the U.S.’s trade deficit with Japan and complicate any future U.S.-Japan trade negotiations, at least from Tokyo’s perspective.

Only our choice of bribe is different: industrial trade deficits, advanced semiconductors, and the transfer of capital and intellectual property.

That framework includes the highest tariffs on China with the widest trade deficit, and lower tariffs on allies with trade problems and roughly 10% tariffs on neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.