US trade deficit keeps going up despite tariffs

[wvit1001]

how can this be, isn't trump tough on this kind of thing?



US trade deficit widens to $53 billion as soybean exports plummet amid China trade battle


Amid an ongoing tariff battle with its global partners, the U.S. saw its trade deficit continue to widen.

The imbalance increased $3.2 billion in August to $53.2 billion, a 6.4 percent increase and part of an ongoing trend in 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census.

One particular contributor to the August imbalance was soybeans, a hotly contested point of the trade war. Soybean exports fell $1 billion for the month.


The imbalance increased $3.2 billion in August to $53.2 billion, a 6.4 percent increase and part of an ongoing trend in 2018, according to the figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census.

For the calendar year, the trade deficit is up $31 billion or 8.6 percent from a year ago.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/the-us-trade-deficit-keeps-going-up-despite-tariffs.html

[wvit1001]

It’s almost as if President Flashcards doesn’t understand how trade and tariffs work.

[dont-blameme]

wvit is an expert on how trade and tariffs work, right wvit?

[sine-qua-non]

China just played into Trumps hand on trade halfing thier tariffs! 

Goooo Trump

Sure is nice having a POTUS that knows what he’s doing not like the bumbling bowing to our enemies Barry the Sodomite !

[Truman62]

Just companies buying up what they can before Xmas and the tariffs kick in!

Come November all this buying will plummet...

[sine-qua-non]

Babble on babbler  !!!   LOL

[wvit1001]

What tariffs did they cut sine?   

[Truman62]

Sinus has no answer.

All it can do is babble on about this or that, with no proof, no sources, no links...

What a waste of time and server space Sinus is.

[sine-qua-non]

Sorry for you two ignoramuses but
it’s not my turn to educate you two losers

I found it!  Now’s your chance to prove you Are stupid as you portray here daily or
Put on you big girl panties and find what I easily found

[wvit1001]

Is it a secret that you can’t share sine? 

[sine-qua-non]

It’s no secret that you two are gullible stooges

Proving how ignorant you are here is easy!

[wvit1001]

Can you not have anything approaching an actual conversation?