The trading gap of US goods hits a high record as Trump tariffs

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The US trade deficit has risen to a record high in March, as the enterprises have been purchased for the application of tariffs for sweeping tariffs for President Donald Trump.

In March, the gap between imports and exports, up to $ 92.8 billion in 2024, noting the highest figure by the early 1990s, the United States noted the highest indicators for the Census Bureau.

Rise trade The balance is almost completely increasing imports – especially those who have a long rack as cars, industrial materials and consumer goods.

The figures are added by the Trump Office of US enterprises by the fact that the application of steep tariffs gathers the weight loss.

“(The first quarter of 2025), the picture (first quarter of 2025), a hasty in a hurry to get the president’s tariff threats, and more prices,” Oliver Allen is a high-level economist in Pantheon macroeconomics.

The US President presented a number of so-called tariffs to increase the financing of high tariffs in sharing in stock markets on April 2. US economy recession and global growth.

The introduction of many of these tariffs was pause on April 40 during 90 days, the 10 percent of China imports remain in 10 percent carts. Economists say that the current scenario, although there are no tariffs on April 2, are more effectively from the United States.

The report is ahead of the first quarter to be distorted on Wednesday, the first quarter expected to be distorted by the impact.

Analysts questioned by Reuters, only 0.3 percent growth of 0.4 percent, and the annual growth to the fourth quarter of last year.

However, economists believe that the figures can take an oversized image of the US growth.

“GDP will give us very little information”, “Chief economist in BNP Paribas izabelle Mateos Y Lago. “It will be full of noise and reflect the amount of imports.”

He added: “You really need to look under the hood to see what happened.”

Economists expect a partial return in the second quarter because they have fallen imports and pushing GDP.

“Today’s (trading) numbers can be a negative GDP print and openly annoyed the risk that determines us for very weak 2025,” he said.

Los Angeles, the West Coast ports, the sharp fall in the loads of cargo in recent weeks, said that the ships carrying products from the east coast of China are returning.

The anecdote reports on the shortage of construction and industrial products created from China have also begun.

Additional report by George Sweer in New York