Container shipping lines have been forced into abandoning moves to return to the shorter Red Sea/Suez Canal route as fighting between Iranian, Israeli and US forces escalated over the weekend.

One day the United States and India are close trading partners on seemingly comfortable terms. Then suddenly their relationship is turned upside-down by a threatened 50% tariff that come late August ...

Last year, there was a record $112 billion gap between what China reported exporting to the US and what the US Customs and Border Protection agency said arrived. That discrepancy, according to ...

As Mexican officials worked to restore calm after the violence that broke out following a drug lord's killing, most cruise ships were far from the danger areas. Only a few calls were canceled, all at ...

The European Parliament on Monday halted the ratification process of a sweeping trade deal with the United States, the latest fallout from the Supreme Court striking down most of President Donald ...

The E.U. isn’t throwing out the deal it agreed with the United States before President Trump’s tariffs were overruled, but European officials want more clarity first. By Jeanna Smialek Reporting from ...

President Trump still has three years left in office. Yet the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday that most of his tariffs are illegal has given the world a glimpse of U.S. trade policy long after Trump has ...

While the future of North America’s USMCA trade deal remains uncertain, with Donald Trump even weighing whether to withdraw the US from the treaty, Canada insists on strengthening its trade ...

President Trump on Wednesday touted the decline in U.S. trade deficit ahead of official data showing a small reduction in the country’s overall balance of trade. In a Wednesday night post on Truth ...

In April 2025, WSJ looked at how the trade deficit works, how tariffs affect it—and why economists say it isn’t necessarily bad for the economy. Illustration: Madeline Marshall Imports to the U.S.

For the full year, the U.S. ran a $901.5 billion trade deficit, down slightly from 2024 but only by 0.2%, or $2.1 billion. The report follows a year in which President Donald Trump implemented a ...

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