Sentences with phrase «u.s. trade deficit»

The Greenback's rally was then sustained by the better - than - expected reading for ISM's non-manufacturing PMI (59.8 vs. 55.5 expected, 55.3 previous), as well exports rising to a 2 - and - 1/2 - year high, which resulted in a narrower - than - expected U.S. trade deficit -LRB-- $ 42.4 B vs. - $ 42.7 B expected, - $ 43.6 B previous), and hawkish rhetoric from a bunch of Fed officials.

Marketwatch.com: U.S. trade deficit drops 10 % in February, 4/4/17.

For all his tough rhetoric on the campaign trail, Trump struck a conciliatory tone during his recent Beijing trip, praising Chinese President Xi Jinping and blaming his White House predecessors for the U.S. trade deficit with China.

The U.S. trade deficit with Mexico rose nearly 10 per cent in 2015 to $ 60.7 - billion (U.S.).

And reversing the large U.S. trade deficit (a combined $ 76 - billion U.S. last year with Canada and Mexico) remains a key target of his team as it prepares to move into the White House in January.

The falling U.S. trade deficit in large part reflects rising domestic energy production.

Though he promised to narrow the yawning U.S. trade deficit, it reached $ 566 billion last year, a 12.1 percent increase over 2016 and the highest mark in nine years.

Indeed, automobiles drive the U.S. trade deficit with those countries; the United States would enjoy a trade surplus with its NAFTA partners were it not for the trade deficit in autos and auto parts.

He cites the bilateral U.S. trade deficit as evidence that China needs us more than we need them.

S. Free Trade Agreement a «horrible deal» and blamed it for expanding the U.S. trade deficit.

The U.S. trade deficit widened 8 %, as a fall in U.S. exports in September suggests the global economy is struggling to gain traction quickly enough to offset tepid demand at home.

Despite Trump's firmly held beliefs, tariffs will not close the U.S. trade deficit, absent higher savings (in the public or private sectors) or lower investment.

For example, the U.S. trade deficit with China from January through November 2017 was approximately $ 342 billion.

This amounts to a 7.7 percent widening of the U.S. trade deficit with China that has occurred on Trump's watch.

«And so if Trump somehow really managed to eliminate or dramatically reduce the U.S. trade deficit, one consequence of that could well be a decline of the value of real estate — not only in the New York City area, but throughout the United States.»

WASHINGTON The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in March as exports increased to a record high amid a surge in deliveries of commercial aircraft and soybeans, bolstering the economy's outlook heading into the second quarter.

In 2017, the deficit stood at $ 375 billion, which accounts for about 65 percent of the total U.S. trade deficit.

Elsewhere, a Commerce Department report showed the U.S. trade deficit narrowed in March.

Punishing Mexican exports would risk destabilizing the economy of an important country whose prosperity adds to U.S. prosperity, would only increase pressure for poor Mexican to emigrate, and in the end would almost certainly make the U.S. trade deficit even larger.

The number of Americans receiving unemployment aid fell to its lowest since 1973, and the U.S. trade deficit narrowed for the first time in seven months.

The U.S. trade deficit is a major reason President Donald Trump promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), even though economists generally agree that a bilateral trade balance is not directly linked to trade policy.

The business - oriented C. D. Howe Institute flags three specific, stated Trump goals (plus his sweeping aim of somehow adapting NAFTA to shrink the U.S. trade deficit) that the Canadian negotiating team must «strongly resist»:

In that case, a U.S. trade deficit is actually a boost to economic growth, as it was for much of the nineteenth century.

U.S. trade deficit: Beijing's decision would leave the U.S. capital account surplus unchanged, so it could not have any impact on the U.S. current account or trade deficits.

Elsewhere, a report revealed the U.S. trade deficit narrowed in March.

How the U.S. trade deficit will affect growth in the U.S. economy depends on whether American businesses are already able to invest as much as they desire to expand production or are unable to do so because of insufficient savings.

The trade implications are clear: China ran a $ 22 billion trade surplus, and the U.S. trade deficit increased by $ 19 billion.

The second two ways would change nothing for China but would cause the U.S. trade deficit to decline, either in ways that would reduce U.S. unemployment or that would reduce U.S. debt.

The U.S. trade deficit sank 15 percent in March to $ 49 billion, its lowest amount in six months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

In a recent much - remarked - upon and very short op - ed, George P. Shultz and Martin Feldstein argue that the only way, or at least the best way, to cut the U.S. trade deficit is for Washington to cut the U.S. fiscal deficit.

When policymakers declare, for example, that they will implement policies that force the U.S. trade deficit to contract sharply, and then with the next breath promise to attract more foreign investment, we can immediately dismiss their promises not just as unlikely but as literally impossible.

Finally, the fifth way would cause the U.S. trade deficit to decline in ways that would likely either reduce U.S. unemployment or reduce U.S. debt; this fifth way would also cause the Chinese trade surplus to decline in ways that would likely either increase Chinese unemployment or increase Chinese debt.

U.S. trade deficit: Because Beijing's decision would reduce the overall U.S. capital account surplus, it would also reduce the U.S. current account and trade deficits.

In 2016, the U.S. trade deficit with China stood at a whopping $ 347 billion.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Record exports trimmed the U.S. trade deficit in March, the first drop in seven months in a massive gap that President Donald Trump is determined to shrink with an aggressive America first policy.

Record exports trimmed the U.S. trade deficit in March 2018, the first drop in seven months in a massive gap that President Donald Trump is determined to shrink with an aggressive America First policy.

• From 2011 to 2016, the U.S. trade deficit in goods with Korea more than doubled, rising from $ 13.2 billion to $ 27.6 billion.

The U.S. trade deficit in goods, without services, was $ 810 billion.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly widened in September as exports hit a five - month low, a sign that slowing global demand could undercut economic growth in the fourth quarter.

And though exports of oil have increased, helping to shrink the U.S. trade deficit in energy by half from fourth quarter 2016 to fourth quarter 2017, the improvement has had negligible impact on the much larger overall U.S. trade deficit, which grew during that period.

The U.S. trade deficit with Germany is $ 65 billion.

More than 65 percent of the U.S. trade deficit in goods was with China.

The U.S. trade deficit will not decline, and may even rise if it causes foreign confidence in the U.S. economy to rise.

The clash reflects the tension between Trump's promises to narrow a U.S. trade deficit with China that stood at $ 375.2 billion last year and the ruling Communist Party's development ambitions.

I am in the bottom right box, in which a cut in the U.S. fiscal deficit will cause no change in the U.S. trade deficit because it will be matched by a decline in household savings as unemployment rises, as consumer debt rises, or both.

In fact, if investors are worried at all about the U.S. fiscal deficit, then if anything a cut in the deficit will cause even more money to enter the United States, and if the U.S. capital account surplus rises, then so must the U.S. trade deficit, which is the opposite of what Shultz and Feldstein claim.

This is why Shultz and Feldstein claim that cutting the U.S. fiscal deficit would cause the U.S. trade deficit to fall.

(Last year, the U.S. trade deficit with Germany was nearly $ 65 billion.)

You report that America's «Goods deficit with China hit record $ 375.2 billion» («U.S. Trade Deficit Grew to $ 566 Billion in 2017, Its Widest Mark in Nine Years,» Feb. 6).

He has also accused the Tokyo government of using monetary policy to devalue its currency and has also lumped Japan with China and Mexico as big contributors to the U.S. trade deficit.