Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 49
Trade deals would shrink the trade deficit
Never delivered“[paraphrase] Renegotiated trade deals and tariffs will bring the trade deficit down.”
- Promised
- , Trade policy speech, Monessen, Pennsylvania
- Re-promised
- 25 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Trade & tariffs
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
The total U.S. trade deficit in goods and services rose 36.3 percent from 2016 to 2020, reaching nearly $654 billion in 2020, according to FactCheck.org.