Understanding who will end up paying for the higher costs means understanding how manufacturing, trade and supply chains ...

Since the 1930s, the U.S. has moved away from protectionism in favor of trade liberalization. Agreements like the General ...

President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs in his second term defies many historical norms, say economists and historians.

Tariffs have become President Donald Trump's favored economic move, prompting a lot of folks to ask what it is they even do.

President Donald Trump’s shift in policy to reciprocal tariffs is a relief to markets, U.S. consumers and most trading ...

Donald Trump thinks US firms have a trade disadvantage, as they often face higher costs when exporting their products. DW ...

The bad economics of import taxes was succinctly summed up by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), one of the few Republicans to ...

tia.yang ( Tia Yang, senior editor): Americans overall are fairly split over tariffs. Broadly speaking, polls this year have shown that increased or new tariffs are slightly unpopular among the public ...

But there’s a method behind Trump’s tariff plan. Trump has used and promised to expand tariffs for three primary purposes: to ...

Trump calls it unfair that some countries apply higher tariffs to specific American goods than the U.S. applies back. A new ...

A 60% tariff on Chinese imports would therefore be a 60% tax on the cost to import, say, computer components from China, for example. Trump has been fixated on imports as part of his economic ...