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US trade deficit drops 1.7% last year to $616.8 billion

by AP Economics Writer
| February 5, 2020 2:45 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit fell for the first time in six years in 2019 as President Donald Trump hammered China with import taxes.

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