{"id":1549664,"date":"2025-07-29T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1549664"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:55:35","slug":"us-goods-trade-deficit-shrinks-more-than-all-expectations-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-goods-trade-deficit-shrinks-more-than-all-expectations-in-june\/1549664\/","title":{"rendered":"US Goods Trade Deficit Shrinks More Than All Expectations In June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">US Goods Trade Deficit Shrinks More Than All Expectations In June<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The US merchandise-trade deficit shrank in June by more than expected, reflecting a broad decline in imports as the pre-tariff rush to secure goods unwinds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The shortfall in goods trade narrowed 10.8% from the prior month to $86 billion<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmA086.jpg?itok=7PnMCCI3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>This deficit was smaller than all economists&#8217; forecasts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2025-07-29_05-51-48.jpg?itok=Ia2C_ilR\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imports fell 4.2% to $264.2 billion, <\/strong>including the smallest value of inbound shipments of consumer goods since September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Imports of industrial supplies and motor vehicles also fell. US <strong>exports of merchandise decreased 0.6%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm6997.jpg?itok=BrajfIsA\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the merchandise-trade data, the latest advance economic indicators report showed <strong>retail inventories rose 0.3% last month<\/strong>, the most since September and reflecting a surge at car dealers. <strong>Stockpiles at wholesalers climbed 0.2%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More complete June trade figures that include the balance on the services account are due Aug. 5, but for now, this seems like <strong>a win for President Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 07\/29\/2025 &#8211; 08:55<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/us-goods-trade-deficit-shrinks-more-all-expectations-june\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/us-goods-trade-deficit-shrinks-more-all-expectations-june<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Goods Trade Deficit Shrinks More Than All Expectations In June The US merchandise-trade deficit shrank in June by more than expected, reflecting a broad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1549665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6v8A","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/bfmA086-dxNvRJ.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}