{"id":1527,"date":"2026-10-30T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:53:40","slug":"trumps-tariffs-fail-to-cut-us-trade-deficit-iw-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/blog\/2026\/10\/30\/trumps-tariffs-fail-to-cut-us-trade-deficit-iw-report-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s tariffs fail to cut US trade deficit, IW report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">United States President Donald Trump&#8217;s economic agenda has delivered robust growth and strong \u200binvestment but failed to reduce the trade \u200cdeficit, according to a study by the German Economic Institute IW seen by Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are \u200bsome key points from the report:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-layout-flex wp-container-core-list-is-layout-c4cf3051 wp-block-list-is-layout-flex\" style=\"\">\n<li>Trump&#8217;s tax &#8203;cuts, tariffs and drive to revive domestic &#8288;manufacturing had produced mixed results. Gross domestic &#8203;product growth remained solid and AI-related investment was &#8203;buoyant, but job creation lagged the prior administration and inflation remained above the Federal Reserve&#8217;s 2% target.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The U.S. goods &#8203;trade deficit reached $130 billion in August, exceeding &#8203;its level two years earlier, despite sweeping import tariffs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trade &zwnj;patterns &#8288;had shifted, however. The European Union&#8217;s share of the deficit fell to 7% from 20% in August 2024. China&#8217;s share of the trade deficit &#8203;declined to &#8203;14% from &#8288;29%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Efforts to bring manufacturing back have so far fallen short. Foreign &#8203;direct investment inflows fell 8.2% to $248 billion &#8203;in &#8288;2025, 18% below the 2015&ndash;2024 average.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is increasing already high public debt &#8288;and &#8203;pushing up interest rates, with &#8203;creditors questioning whether the U.S. can sustain its outstanding debt &#8203;of $40 trillion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump&#8217;s economic agenda has delivered robust growth and strong \u200binvestment but failed to reduce the trade \u200cdeficit, according to a study by the German Economic Institute IW seen by Reuters on Friday. Here are \u200bsome key points from the report:<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"\u062f\u0628\u0644\u064a\u0648 \u0628\u064a","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}