President-elect Donald Trump's latest threat to slap huge tariffs on countries that try to move away from the mighty U.S.

An ag economist says the USDA is forecasting that the United States’ already record trade deficit will grow even larger in ...

The U.S. trade deficit last year was around 3.0% of GDP, much smaller than the record 5.7% of GDP reached in the mid-2000s, but still large ...

The argument in favour of tariffs is that having a large trade deficit is bad. The logic being that if a country is importing lots of goods from abroad, that means it must also be exporting jobs to ...

Tariffs and trade are rarely explained in a way everyone can understand, and we should blame economists for that. There are a few important points that every adult should know.

Trade wars are not easy to win, and they are darned near impossible to win for rich countries that export commodities. We ...

The five products that account for 27.5% of America's trade deficit are pharmaceuticals, cars, car parts, oil, and computers.

Yanis Varoufakis shows why the incoming US administration can’t eliminate the negative balance – and wouldn’t even if it ...

The last time Donald Trump was in the White House, Mexico’s economy did surprisingly well. The Spanish-speaking country, and ...

The Department of Trade and Industry is hopeful the return of US president-elect Donald Trump will provide benefits to the ...

A Canadian minister who attended a dinner between President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Trump ...