Economy

The U.S. trade deficit in goods hit a record $1.2 trillion last year, as American consumers snapped up imported products...

To President Trump, one economic number represents everything that is wrong with the global economy: America’s trade deficit.That deficit is...

Beijing responded swiftly on Tuesday to the tariffs President Trump had promised, announcing a fusillade of countermeasures targeting American companies...

President Trump is brandishing the U.S. economy like a weapon, putting more than a trillion dollars of trade on the...

President Trump’s decision to impose hefty tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China included a little-noticed but significant change to how...

The cost of using the Panama Canal has risen in recent years — excessively so, President Trump has asserted. The...

President Trump’s move this weekend to slap sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China is threatening to fracture the global...

President Trump said on Saturday that he would impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China using a decades-old law that...

President Trump is moving forward with extensive tariffs on America’s closest trading partners. Beginning Tuesday, companies bringing products into the...

When Dennis Nixon started working at a regional bank in Laredo, Texas, in 1975, there was just a trickle of...