Donald Trump said he would impose a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports. Here's what that means.

President Donald Trump has turned tariffs into the centerpiece of his economic strategy, and in 2026 the policy will bite even harder. The new schedule of import taxes, paired with promised $2,000 ...

Tariffs worked because they addressed a structural reality that polite trade discourse often ignores: the United States is the world's indispensable market, and Trump demanded that American consumers ...

How tariffs work A tariff is a customs duty, or tax, levied on goods and services that are imported or exported. In the past, tariffs were used by countries primarily as a way to bring in revenue for ...

“Ten percent!” “Eighteen percent!” “Thirty-nine percent!” President Trump spells out his trade policy like an auctioneer, leading many in the media to focus on his broad reciprocal tariff rates when ...

The approach favoured by Mr Trump is for firms to start making things in America. Even if this happened at scale, which will ...

When President Donald Trump unveiled his administration's sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs last April, pundits on both sides of the aisle responded by describing the likely effects in superlatives.