Trade Deficit

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Policy Brief

Five Reasons Why the Focus on Trade Deficits Is Misleading

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)
March 2018
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Three Ways to Reduce a Trade Deficit

Caroline Freund (PIIE)
November 6, 2017
Short Videos

Is the US Trade Deficit a Problem?

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

Countries with Higher Tariffs Have Larger Trade Deficits

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

We Know What Causes Trade Deficits

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)
April 7, 2017

Recent Content

Policy Brief

Taming the US trade deficit: A dollar policy for balanced growth

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)
November 2020
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Memo to the Biden administration on the US trade deficit and international financial policy

Joseph E. Gagnon (PIIE)
November 4, 2020
PIIE Chart

Manufacturing employment declined more in countries with large trade surpluses than deficits

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)
October 7, 2020
PIIE Chart

Manufacturing trade surpluses may not prevent declining manufacturing employment

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

September 24, 2020
Working Paper

Trade surplus or deficit? Neither matters for changes in manufacturing employment shares

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

September 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Targeted by the United States, a Renewed Trade Response from the European Union

Anabel González (PIIE) and Nicolas Véron (PIIE)

September 13, 2019
Past Event

The IMF's 2019 External Sector Report: Exchange Rates and External Adjustment

Gustavo Adler (International Monetary Fund)

September 11, 2019
Trade Talks

Trade Talks Episode 99: The Surprising Story of the US Trade Deficit with South Korea

Featuring Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
September 6, 2019
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Will Auto Trade Be a Casualty of US-Japan Trade Talks?

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)

May 6, 2019
PIIE Chart

US Trade Deficit with China Keeps Growing, Even with Tariffs

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE) and Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu (PIIE)

March 8, 2019