Die USA hatten im Jahr 2023 mit den meisten ihrer wichtigsten Handelspartner ein Handelsdefizit [OC]

How balanced is US trade?

The US typically imports more than it exports. In 2023, the US imported $1 trillion more in goods than it exported, marking the sixth straight year of a trade deficit in the trillions (adjusting for inflation).

In two-thirds of its trade relationships with at least $10 billion in two-way trade, the US imported more than it exported — a trade deficit.

The highest trade deficits were with China ($279 billion), Mexico ($152 billion), and Vietnam ($105 billion).

Of course, that means that with one-third of trade partners, the US exported more than it imported, creating a trade surplus. The US had its largest surpluses with the Netherlands ($43 billion), Hong Kong ($24 billion), the United Arab Emirates ($18 billion), and Australia ($18 billion).

Taken from [this article](https://usafacts.org/articles/who-are-the-uss-top-trade-partners/).

Adding a 100% tariff to all of those imported goods should help /s

The US has been an import country for a long time because it has a very valuable export: the dollar.

No other country could do it. The US has the global reserve currency and the highest global demand on a currency.

If we import more than we export, then we should have a nice surplus of goods.

So, unless we have a shortage of anything important, a trade deficit isn’t a problem.

Exporting more in the aggregate would just mean we would be getting a surplus of reserve currencies, and probably in foreign denominations.

International trade is sort of complex that way.

It’s interesting, but import/export deficit doesn’t mean a whole lot when the US “exports” a ton of digital and intellectual goods that don’t get included in these numbers.