{"id":96,"date":"2021-01-08T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifenewstream.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2021-01-08T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:48:02","slug":"us-trade-deficit-jumps-to-68-1-billion-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"US trade deficit jumps to $68.1 billion in November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The U.S. trade deficit jumped to $68.1 billion in November as a surge in imports overwhelmed a smaller increase in exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The November gap between what America buys from abroad compared to what it sells abroad rose by 8% from the October deficit of $63.1 billion, the Commerce Department said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_ap_link_Donald Trump_DonaldTrump_\">Through the first 11 months of 2020, the deficit stands at $604.8 billion, 13.9% higher than the same period in 2019. President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/DonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;has insisted that his get-tough trade policies with the rest of the world would shrink the deficit and bring back American jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The U.S. trade deficit jumped to $68.1 billion in November as a surge in imports overwhelmed a smaller increase in exports. The November &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newshouse.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}