and a 1st for a beer abroad kids german curries and business out of time where demand at home is drying up. this is b.w. business i m joined now on in berlin welcome to the u.s. trade deficit widened in august as exports went up but imports increased even more the commerce department said the deficit rose 1.6 per cent to almost $55000000000.00 but president donald trump s latest efforts to reduce the trade gap with china by imposing tariffs on imports and waging a trade war appear to be bearing some fruit that deficit fell by over 3 percent to nearly $32000000000.00 in august u.s. exports to china grew while imports declined the deficit with the european union also narrowed month on month falling almost 24 percent to just over 15000000000 dollars and those numbers may yet move even more soon this week washington and washington announced tariffs on aircraft as well as industrial and agricultural