Within months of the stock market crash, Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a 1930 measure that increased ...
Donald Trump said the U.S. would hit Brazil, Russia and six other countries with a crushing tariff if they sought to challenge the dollar.
Trump has made clear he will use tariffs — many of which he can enact without Congress’ approval — to an unprecedented degree ...
President-elect Trump has promised to impose 25% tariffs on all goods imported from Canada and Mexico, and tariffs as high as ...
The US can't reduce its trade deficit and increase the global dominance of the dollar at the same time, said an economist.
President-elect Donald Trump said he would require countries that are part of BRICS — a China- and Russia-backed group of ...
Donald Trump continues to threaten tariffs against foreign nations, this time toward a bloc of nine countries if they try to ...
R. Bruce Anderson writes that tariffs are not a great solution even in a crisis, and can be incredibly harmful to an economy ...
Trump has pledged to impose a tariff as high as 20% on all foreign imports and an additional punitive 60% tax on imports from China. Trump has also floated the idea of eliminating all income taxes ...
Canada and Mexico are two of America’s largest trading partners, and the tariff could have significant economic consequences ...
Trump announced on Monday that he planned to use an executive order on his first day in office to impose a 25% tariff on all ...
Trump is apparently oblivious to the societal train wrecks that protectionist tariffs have caused throughout American history ...