Balance of trade is a useless measure of economic vitality. Trade deficits are not a measure of lost income or jobs; trade surpluses are not necessarily good things nor signs that a nation is ...

The August 1 deadline gives the countries time to negotiate agreements that could lower the tariffs. Some investors and ...

Balance of Payments . Balance of payments (BOP) is a net figure that shows how much money is leaving or coming into a country. All trade is included in the BOP figure, including the trade deficit ...

Japan’s balance of trade unexpectedly swung to its first surplus since July 2021, an outcome that should help ease pressure on the economy’s recovery, though risks remain for the growth outlook.

In February, the overall U.S. trade deficit was $122.7 billion, ... Also referred to as a negative balance of trade, it can be calculated for goods, services, and international transactions.

President Trump loves talking about the trade balance. So do I, though, I hope, in a somewhat different way. In fact, I spent the mid-2000s arguing that the U.S. trade deficit was too large, and ...

Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from ...

Though the balance of dividend and interest payments was a favorable $375,000,000 and miscellaneous transactions yielded another $30,000,000 credit, the U. S. wound up the year owing other ...

They might start by pointing to the “current account,” the record that offers the broadest picture of the trade balance. It includes imports, exports and things such as cross-border transfers ...

We got an early look at the balance of trade Thursday morning. Imports in February were more or less flat after surging in January, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Meanwhile, exports picked up ...

All this “fake” trade deficit does is reduce China’s reported current account surplus—as the goods surplus in the balance of payments is now about $300 billion (over 1.5 percentage points ...