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2020 US Trade Deficit Soared to $679 billion, the worst since 2008
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 75730301" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/05/2020-trade-figures-trump-failure-deficit-466116?fbclid=IwAR1SM9Iegk0m96glRcEHRYFVHihzaEisqEC84F3qDnrleeIROeOMVFzDb2o&__twitter_impression=true&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark" target="_blank">LINK</a></p><p></p><p>The U.S. trade deficit over the four years of President Donald Trump’s presidency soared to its highest level since 2008, despite his tough [I think "misguided, counterproductive and failed" would be more accurate] tariff tactics intended to bring it down, <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000177-72fe-d263-abf7-faff4f220000" target="_blank">a new Commerce Department report</a> showed on Friday.</p><p></p><p>The combined U.S. goods and services trade deficit increased to $679 billion in 2020, compared to $481 billion in 2016, the year before Trump took office. The trade deficit in goods alone hit $916 billion, a record high and an increase of about 21 percent from 2016.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 75730301, member: 294566"] [URL='https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/05/2020-trade-figures-trump-failure-deficit-466116?fbclid=IwAR1SM9Iegk0m96glRcEHRYFVHihzaEisqEC84F3qDnrleeIROeOMVFzDb2o&__twitter_impression=true&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark']LINK[/URL] The U.S. trade deficit over the four years of President Donald Trump’s presidency soared to its highest level since 2008, despite his tough [I think "misguided, counterproductive and failed" would be more accurate] tariff tactics intended to bring it down, [URL='https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000177-72fe-d263-abf7-faff4f220000']a new Commerce Department report[/URL] showed on Friday. The combined U.S. goods and services trade deficit increased to $679 billion in 2020, compared to $481 billion in 2016, the year before Trump took office. The trade deficit in goods alone hit $916 billion, a record high and an increase of about 21 percent from 2016. [/QUOTE]
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