Kyle Risdahl
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Apr
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trade deficit, the difference between what we sell overseas and what we buy.
Those two misapprehensions came together in the headlines today in the release this morning by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of, and this is the official title, U.S.
International Trade in Goods and Services, December and Annual 2025.
Turns out we imported more goods and services in the last month of last year than we exported, $70 billion worth more, give or take.
And net-net for all of last year, our trade deficit in goods, that is stuff, hit a record.
Now, you might recall the president's repeated promises that his tariffs would bring that number down.
As Marketplace's Sabri Beneshour reports, they have not.
Wilde does not begin to describe the ride Tomboy X Apparel has been on this past year.
Fran Dunaway is president of Tomboy X. She tried to order a bunch of stuff early to get ahead of the tariffs, but eventually had to import again.
She moved production from country to country, got the tariffs down to 40 percent.
Not just her business.
Millions of supply chains lurched from tariff crisis to tariff crisis, dragging the trade deficit along for the ride.
Bradley Saunders is with Capital Economics.
You look back at the start, you see tariff front running.
And the trade deficit grew.
Over sort of the summer months, you have imports dropping back.
And the trade deficit shrank.
Erica York is a vice president at the Tax Foundation.
2025's trade deficit was about the same as it was in 2024, which is exactly what a lot of economists predicted.
But that is not how this Rube Goldberg device of an economy works.
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