WASHINGTON – The U.S. recorded its largest monthly trade deficit since August 2006 as consumer goods imports returned to pre-epidemic levels, adding evidence of a reversal in global trade.
U.S. The trade deficit widened by 5.9% to 1 1.1 billion since July, the widest gap since August 2006, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. In August, imports rose 2.6% to $ 59 billion, while exports of services and manufactured goods rose 2.5% to higher 1.11 billion.
Economists surveyed by The Street Journal predicted a trade gap of $ 4.5 billion.
Imports of consumer goods and foodstuffs rose in August and are the only broad category of foreign trade that has surpassed year-on-year levels, Tuesday’s figures show. It is likely that from March the federal government will release U.S. Reflects approximately tr trillion dollars in financial assistance through home unemployment insurance, stimulus checks and tax cuts.
While those programs largely run their course – an additional 600 600 weekly unemployment benefits in July – consumer spending continued to rise during August. The result is increased imports of furniture, clothing and pharmaceuticals.
Business data from other sectors paints a mixed picture of recovery.
Imports of industrial supplies fell in the industrial gusts from July and imports of capital goods and vehicles slowed, prompting domestic industries to take new precautions following the initial boom of the economy from the coronavirus-related shutdown.
Overall exports fell below 13% in August 2019, with the global economy slowing to sell U.S. capital goods and selling industrial supplies to other countries.
The overall trade deficit has been exacerbated by the decline in the long-running U.S. trade surplus in services, which fell from .8 23.8 billion in August 2019 to a nine-year low of .8 16.8 billion.
There were indications that the dominance of U.S. services was declining before the epidemic, while the impact of the Covid-1 impact on broken international tourism in recent months has been greatly reduced. The so-called travel exports, which are U.S. Represents the expenditure incurred by foreigners in India, which declined by 77% year on year to Rs 62.622 billion as compared to the previous year.
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