The United States recorded a trade deficit of 78.31 USD Billion in July of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Balance of Trade - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

As of 2024, the United States had a trade deficit of about *** billion U.S. dollars. The U.S. trade deficit has increased since 2009, peaking in 2022. Most recently, 2023 marked the year when the U.S. trade deficit decreased from the previous year. What is trade deficit? A trade deficit is, quite simply, the total value of a country’s imports of goods and services minus the total value of its exports of goods and services. When a country exports more than it imports, it has a trade surplus, and when it imports more than it exports, it has a trade deficit. A trade deficit can mean one of two things: Either the country is failing to produce enough goods for its citizens, or its citizens are wealthy enough to purchase more goods than the country produces (as is the case with the United States). Trading partners The United States’ top export partners are its closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico, due in part to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which, pending ratification, will be replaced by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Regarding imports to the U.S., China takes the top spot, followed by Mexico and Canada.

Graph and download economic data for Trade Balance: Goods and Services, Balance of Payments Basis (BOPGSTB) from Jan 1992 to Jul 2025 about BOP, balance, headline figure, trade, goods, services, and USA.

View monthly updates and historical trends for US Trade Deficit. from United States. Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis. Track economic data with YCharts…

This statistic shows the United States goods trade deficit with China from 2014 to 2024. In 2024, the value of U.S. imports from China exceeded the exports to China by around ***** billion U.S. dollars.

Goods Trade Balance in the United States increased to -85541 USD Million in August from -102840 USD Million in July of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Goods Trade Balance- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Key information about US's Trade Balance

• US's Trade Balance recorded a deficit of 155.6 USD bn in Jan 2025, compared with a deficit of 122.1 USD bn in the previous month
• US's Trade Balance data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1986 to Jan 2025, with an averaged value of -51.2 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of -3.7 USD bn in Feb 1992 and a record low of -155.6 USD bn in Jan 2025

• In the latest reports, US's Total Exports reached 171.6 USD bn in Jan 2025, a decrease of 26.1% YoY (year-on-year)
• Total Imports recorded 327.1 USD bn in Jan 2025, an increase of 26.1% YoY (year-on-year)

Graph and download economic data for Shares of gross domestic product: Net exports of goods and services (A019RE1A156NBEA) from 1929 to 2024 about Shares of GDP, exports, Net, goods, services, GDP, and USA.

The USA: Trade balance as percent of GDP: The latest value from 2024 is -3.09 percent, a decline from -2.88 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is -3.07 percent, based on data from 134 countries. Historically, the average for the USA from 1960 to 2024 is -1.81 percent. The minimum value, -5.69 percent, was reached in 2006 while the maximum of 1.01 percent was recorded in 1964.

The U.S. goods trade deficit with China increased by nearly ** billion U.S. dollars in 2024, as China still had the biggest impact on U.S. bilateral trade. This is according to seasonally adjusted trade date from within the United States. Following the results of the U.S. elections in 2024, discussions surfaced on the potential of tariffs for countries that have a large trade surplus with the United States. The president-elect stated that trade tariffs of ** percent and ** percent might be implemented for goods from China or Mexico, respectively. The effects of such measures on the forecast GDP growth across the world were not yet clear. In Europe, however, Germany might be the most affected economy when the U.S. does implement tariffs.

Historical dataset showing U.S. trade balance by year from 1970 to 2023.

Graph and download economic data for Net Exports of Goods and Services (NETEXP) from Q1 1947 to Q2 2025 about exports, Net, goods, services, GDP, and USA.

The United States recorded a Current Account deficit of 3.90 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2024. This dataset provides - United States Current Account to GDP - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The statistic shows the trade balance of goods of the United States from 2014 to 2024, in billion U.S. dollars. The trade balance is calculated by subtracting the imports from the exports of a country. In 2024, the United States' trade balance amounted to a deficit of **** trillion U.S. dollars.

United States Trade Balance: BoP: sa: Goods Non Petroleum data was reported at -60.143 USD bn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of -62.520 USD bn for Apr 2018. United States Trade Balance: BoP: sa: Goods Non Petroleum data is updated monthly, averaging -32.948 USD bn from Jan 1992 (Median) to May 2018, with 317 observations. The data reached an all-time high of -863.900 USD mn in Feb 1992 and a record low of -69.268 USD bn in Feb 2018. United States Trade Balance: BoP: sa: Goods Non Petroleum data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA002: Trade Statistics: BoP Basis: Seasonally Adjusted.

Colombia Trade Balance: Country: United States data was reported at -1.190 USD bn in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of -2.109 USD bn for 2023. Colombia Trade Balance: Country: United States data is updated yearly, averaging 496.264 USD mn from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2024, with 30 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8.991 USD bn in 2011 and a record low of -4.774 USD bn in 2015. Colombia Trade Balance: Country: United States data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Administrative Department of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Colombia – Table CO.JA002: Trade Balance: Annual.

The statistic shows the trade balance of services (exports minus imports of services) in the United States from 2014 to 2024. A positive value means a trade surplus, a negative trade balance means a trade deficit. In 2024, the trade surplus of services in the United States amounted to about ****** billion U.S. dollars.

Graph and download economic data for International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Trade Balance: Commodities for United States (XTNTVA01USM667S) from Jan 1955 to Jul 2025 about trade, Net, goods, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Federal Surplus or Deficit [-] as Percent of Gross Domestic Product (FYFSGDA188S) from 1929 to 2024 about budget, federal, GDP, and USA.

This data package includes the underlying data to replicate the charts, tables, and calculations presented in The US Trade Deficit and Foreign Borrowing: How Long Can It Continue?, PIIE Working Paper 25-14.

If you use the data, please cite as:

Bayoumi, Tamim, and Joseph E. Gagnon. 2025. The US Trade Deficit and Foreign Borrowing: How Long Can It Continue? PIIE Working Paper 25-14. Washington: Peterson Institute for International Economics.