No, that’s not what a trade deficit means-and that’s not how you calculate other nations’ tariffs

Peter Draper, FMG member and Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade in the Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Australia co-authored this paper with Vutha Hing and published it on 2 April 2025.

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