President-elect Donald Trump’s vowing to protect American-made cars through steep tariffs on imports. The problem is, there is no such thing as an all-American car.

They favored federal-level projects and policies—particularly a powerful national bank and protective tariffs to help ... of government—called the “American System”—that included federal ...

"The American Protective Tariff League offers to the students of Senior Classes and Universities in the United States a series of Prizes for approved essays on The Advantages of a Protective ...

Trump uses his usual historical hyperbole to drive the point home. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” he said. He has even boastfully called himself “tariff man” and has held out 19th ...

Such American manufacturing dominance forced many lawmakers and reformers to rethink the existing tax and trade system ... and rising inequality. The protective tariff was described as “the ...

President Donald Trump has been trying to remake American trade policy ... policy has undermined our system of government more consistently than the protective tariff. Internally, republican ...

And the American System quickly ... As the use of tariffs continued in the decades following Hamilton’s plan, policymakers turned increasingly protective in an attempt to more directly promote ...