Discover how trade surpluses and deficits impact a country's currency exchange rate through supply and demand fluctuations.

(Resends to fix formatting error) By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder Feb 24 - President Donald Trump's promised temporary 15% tariffs to replace those struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court are meant to ...

The administration misinterprets a Nixon-era law in its bid to reimpose tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump called the punishing tariffs he announced on Wednesday “reciprocal,” claiming that the new levies on imports from pretty much every nation—including some that are longtime ...

Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats. The 2024 Annual Report of the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics (the Committee) provides an overview of recent ...

Economists have been vindicated in their prediction that tariffs would hardly affect the overall balance of trade.

Japan’s balance of trade unexpectedly swung to its first surplus since July 2021, an outcome that should help ease pressure on the economy’s recovery, though risks remain for the growth outlook. The ...

Explore the differences between current and capital accounts and how they affect a nation's net income and asset-liability balance.

A strong dollar helped drive an uptick in U.S. imports last year, while export growth remained modest. Annual U.S. trade deficits in goods. ’00 ’05 ’10 ’15 ’20 The U.S. trade deficit in goods hit a ...

China’s GDP statistics are widely thought to be, well, works of performance art. Targets, once set, are almost always met. GDP—apart from the pandemic years—smoothly glided upward. And since China ...