Trump’s tariffs might be solving trade deficits that have persisted for decades, to the dismay of liberal naysayers, according to the recent data from the Commerce Department.
In May 2025, the trade gap between imports and exports reduced from $96.4 billion to $86.0 billion, against the expected deficit of $99 billion.
While exports slightly reduced by 0.4%, potentially due to reciprocal tariffs to $178.2 billion, imports significantly reduced by 4.2% to $264.2 billion.
Consumer goods, such as apparel and electronics, which account for most of the trade deficit, reduced by a whopping 12.4%, industrial goods by 5.5%, and automotive commodities by 2.0%.
However, Americans had likely stockpiled consumer items in anticipation of Trump’s tariffs. Nevertheless, it was the largest monthly decline within a year. Moreover, the overall decline in consumption of imports is a good sign for domestic manufacturers who must compete with cheaper Chinese imports, sometimes produced with slave labor, which the left seems to overlook.
Meanwhile, the goods trade deficit shrank by $12.8 billion, or around 13 percent, compared to the previous year. During this period, exports also increased by 3.6 percent, while imports declined by 2.5 percent, a net gain for Trump’s tariffs, cue the left’s meltdown.
In June 2025, exports of capital goods went up by 4.7%, while consumer goods exports experienced a 1.5% increase. Similarly, retail inventories rose slightly by 0.3%, 2.5% higher than last year. Wholesale inventories also slightly increased by 0.2%.
Recently, White House Senior Counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro slammed the left-leaning Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for misleading Americans about Trump tariffs.
CBO had previously made erroneous predictions about Trump’s 2016 tax cuts, which misfired spectacularly. Despite the apparent error, the left-leaning agency has refused to update its methods, resulting in questionable forecasts about Trump’s tariffs and the Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the propaganda media devours like cotton candy.
“For years, the CBO has been trapped in a stale left-wing Keynesian mindset and stubbornly committed to static scoring models that fail to grasp how real-world economies respond to bold, pro-growth policies,” Navarro wrote in an op-ed piece on Fox News.
“Instead of learning from its spectacular misfire on the Trump 2017 tax bill, the CBO is now recycling the same flawed assumptions to smear the fiscal integrity of President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill – and the Fake News is eating it up.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s America First agenda prioritizes American workers and manufacturing industries, and was at the heart of the trade tariffs. Recently, the far-left-leaning publication The New York Times reported that Trump is winning the trade war, albeit with a leftist spin.
Trump has also made big, beautiful trade deals with America’s traditional partners, such as the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Japan. America’s traditional adversaries, such as China, are also falling in line.
“Formidable economies like the European Union and Japan have abruptly made peace with higher tariffs on their exports, acquiescing to President Trump’s demands in order to avoid damaging trade wars and to coax even steeper U.S. duties down just a little bit,” the far left outlet reported.
“As major economies fall in line to sign agreements that include the highest tariffs in modern history, the president’s vision for global trade is rapidly being realized.”
Undoubtedly, Trump’s tariffs are performing better than the leftist propaganda media industrial complex is ready to admit.
