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The rise of exports means more income for U.S. producers, an economic positive, but it also increases the risk that inflation will continue to accelerate. Rising foreign demand for U.S. goods and services can push up prices for domestic consumers.

Chinese state media on Wednesday celebrated 20 years since China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The direct stimulus payments that hit bank accounts across the U.S. in March increased incomes by a record amount—but much of it found its way into foreign coffers, pushing the trade deficit up to the highest level on record.

Imports shrank slightly but exports to our trading partners contracted sharply in February.

The deficit with China fell in September thanks to rising exports.

Biden repeated his false claim that the trade deficit with China is up. In fact, the U.S. trade deficit in goods is on pace to be at its lowest since 2009.

Imports were down but exports were down by more so the trade deficit rose.

The government has said that 2019 was a “record-breaking” year for British exports, with a 13.6 per cent increase in exports to non-EU countries on the year before while the trade deficit with the European Union has widened.

The trade deficit with China fell to the lowest level since 2014 as tariffs were hiked last year. |

The balance of trade improved in November and imports from China fell sharply.

U.S. imports from China have declined by $53 billion through the first nine months of the year, Commerce Dept. data show.|

Rubio warned Americans in a Monday evening Senate floor speech that the threat from China to the United States can no longer be ignored.

A small rise in the trade deficit in May masks a much larger shift in U.S. trade away from China and toward our allies.

Henry Olsen said “re-balancing” U.S.-China trade and fighting America’s “addiction” to profits from China is Donald Trump’s priority.

Bilateral trade deficits with China, Canada, and the EU narrowed in February. The gaps with Japan and Mexico expanded.

After a rush of imports in December, the trade deficit fell in January thanks to lower imports from China and cheaper oil.

China’s economy is weakening and the trade deficit figures demonstrate just how much it depends on the U.S.

The strength of the U.S. consumer and American businesses drew in imports faster than exports to a weakening global economy.

The China tariffs may have boosted U.S. GDP by holding back imports.

Rocky financial markets, driven largely by Federal Reserve uncertainty and President Trump’s aggressive tariff negotiation strategy, shouldn’t overshadow two trade victories at the recent G20 Summit.

Fmr. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called on the West to to keep Chinese telecommunications company Huawei out of 5G networks.

The United States’ trade deficit with China has eliminated jobs for Americans in all 50 states and every congressional district, new research reveals.

The collapse of American manufacturing thanks to decades of international free trade agreements acted as the catalyst for the general economic decline of the U.S. white working class and black Americans, a new study reveals.

President Donald Trump refuted European Council President Donald Tusk’s Tuesday slam about the number of America’s allies as Trump took off for this week’s NATO summit.

The United States trade deficit dropped in May to the lowest level in 19 months as exports rose to a record level. 

President Donald Trump hinted at the need for a “different structure” for a bilateral trade deal with China just one day after the Commerce Department’s Tuesday determination that China has been using Vietnam to circumvent anti-steel dumping measures.

In a move that could benefit the global auto industry, China announced on Tuesday it will slash tariffs on imported cars.

U.S. trade negotiators will head back to China to work out details of an agreement between the two nations reached during continued trade negotiations this week resulted in a joint framework to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China.

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow revealed to Breitbart News Saturday listeners on SiriusXM Patriot 125 that U.S.-China trade talks will continue in D.C. next Thursday and Friday with hope for a “good deal” and the possibility that stronger measures could be required if China does not permit that.

Five top Trump administration officials are returning from two days of trade meetings with officials in China, bringing with them the message that the administration needs to give “immediate attention” to changing the U.S.-China trade and investment relationship.

The United States’ trade deficit with China has eliminated at least 3.5 million American jobs since 2001, data reveals.

“We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S.,” President Trump wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

The U.S. trade deficit rose to more than nine-year high in January, with the trade gap with China expanding rapidly, adding even more urgency to the case for “America First” trade policies.

Richard Nixon had “created a monster” by opening America and the West to China, said bestselling author and Asia expert Steven Mosher in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured California tech communities last weekend to drum up “Resistance” to President Trump’s threat to dump the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

America’s trade deficit is funding China’s military and infrastructure developments, said former Wall Street Journal editor and Asia expert Brett M. Decker on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.