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Fact-check: “Trump said tariffs cut the trade deficit with China”
Verdict: Partly True (72% confidence)
The official BEA/Census data clearly show the U.S. goods-and-services trade deficit with China fell from roughly $295.7 billion in 2024 to about $202.7 billion in 2025 (after annual revision), and USTR Greer explicitly credited tariff policy for that decline in congressional testimony. However, institutional research — including from the USITC itself — shows that tariffs largely redirected trade to other countries rather than eliminating the underlying imbalance, and the overall U.S. trade defi…
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