Trade Deficit

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Is the US Trade Deficit a Problem?

Featuring Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)
March 6, 2017
Countries with Higher Tariffs Have Larger Trade Deficits
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Countries with Higher Tariffs Have Larger Trade Deficits

Caroline Freund (PIIE) and Melina Kolb (PIIE)
May 8, 2017
Pre-owned automobiles are shown for sale at a car lot in Oceanside, California, U.S., October 3, 2016.
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Trade & Investment Policy Watch

We Know What Causes Trade Deficits

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)
April 7, 2017
A ship is unloaded using Super Post Panamax cranes in Miami, Florida, U.S., May 19, 2016.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Trade & Investment Policy Watch

The Fallacy of Trump’s Alternative Trade Calculation

Caroline Freund (PIIE)
February 27, 2017
Peterson Perspectives

A New Approach to Measuring the Trade Balance?

Featuring Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)
February 24, 2017

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Currency Manipulation Was the Leading Cause of Record Trade Imbalances in 2000s

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE) and Melina Kolb (PIIE)

June 15, 2017
Policy Brief

Trade Balances and the NAFTA Renegotiation

C. Fred Bergsten (PIIE)

June 2017
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Countries with Higher Tariffs Have Larger Trade Deficits

Caroline Freund (PIIE) and Melina Kolb (PIIE)

May 8, 2017
Trade & Investment Policy Watch

Public Comment on Trump Administration Report on Significant Trade Deficits

Caroline Freund (PIIE)

May 8, 2017
Trade & Investment Policy Watch

We Know What Causes Trade Deficits

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)

April 7, 2017
Trade & Investment Policy Watch

Do Border Adjusted Taxes Affect Trade or the Exchange Rate?

Caroline Freund (PIIE) and Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)

April 5, 2017
Working Paper

Effects of Consumption Taxes on Real Exchange Rates and Trade Balances

Caroline Freund (PIIE) and Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)

April 2017
Trade & Investment Policy Watch

Trump's NAFTA Approach Could Worsen US-Mexico Trade Deficit

Monica de Bolle (PIIE)

March 10, 2017
Trade & Investment Policy Watch

Who Pays for Border Adjustment? Sooner or Later, Americans Do

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE) and Jason Furman (PIIE)

March 8, 2017
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Is the US Trade Deficit a Problem?

Featuring Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)
March 6, 2017