{"id":40643,"date":"2026-01-29T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=40643"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:58:16","slug":"trade-balance-soared-94-in-november-and-was-higher-than-a-year-ago-despite-tariff-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=40643","title":{"rendered":"Trade balance soared 94% in November and was higher than a year ago, despite tariff efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108219319\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>A boat moves past a cargo ship with containers at a terminal of the Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China October 30, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Tingshu Wang | Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>The U.S. deficit with its global trading partners nearly doubled in November as the shortfall with the European Union swelled and the impact of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s tariffs weaned their way through the economy, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Following a month where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/foreign-trade\/Press-Release\/current_press_release\/ft900.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">trade deficit<\/a> hit its lowest level since early 2009, it shot up to $56.8 billion, an increase of 94.6% from October. Of that gain, about one-third came with the European Union, where the goods deficit rose by $8.2 billion. The goods deficit with China decreased by about $1 billion to $13.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>On a year-over-year basis, the deficit through November stood at $839.5 billion, or about 4% higher than the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in the deficit counters Trump\u2019s efforts to use tariffs to reduce imbalances around the globe. When announcing so-called reciprocal tariffs in April 2025, the White House used the level of trade deficits with varying countries as a baseline for determining the duties.<\/p>\n<p>As the year went by, Trump softened his stance. A framework agreement between the U.S. and the EU in August put the tariff rate at 15% on most European goods and sought to stabilize relations between the two sides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/29\/trade-balance-soared-94percent-in-november-and-was-higher-than-a-year-ago-despite-tariff-efforts.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boat moves past a cargo ship with containers at a terminal of the Yantian port in Shenzhen,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}