Originally Posted by Bladewire

You negotiate the trade deficit, like you negotiate the trade agreement.
Trump said he's the best negotiatior.
Trump was humiliated that Obama & Merkel met the same day and got more press in Germany. Miraculously the same day Trump was to take care of a German trade deficit. Trump is a hair trigger idiot.

Originally Posted by thommy

this is a too easy explaination about trade deficit.
things are much more complicated in the international markets.
next to that the deficit in USA is calculated wrong since trump.
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an american oil trade company opens a company in an offshore country. this company funds a company in DELAWARE.
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