The U.S. needs to overhaul its approach to dealing with China’s overcapacity, Aaron L. Friedberg writes in a guest commentary ...

Tariff disputes are causing volatility under the new administration, but investors should have two bigger worries right now.

For example, President Trump imposed a 25% tariff on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada (10% for Canadian oil), the US ...

Here’s how current events are mirroring a key point in U.S. history that led to a trade war and exacerbated the Great ...

President Donald Trump has intensified tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, reversing duty-free deals to bolster U.S.

Many presidents use tariffs to force negotiations. But for President Trump, they are the point, a source of revenue as he ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

SRF: How worried are you about the recent tariff turmoil? Jean-Philippe Kohl: We are genuinely concerned by the news that tariffs will be imposed on steel and aluminium imports to the United States.

For example, the Tariff Act of 1930, popularly known as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, levied protective tariffs on roughly 800 to 900 different types of goods, accounting for about 25% of all goods ...

“Protective tariffs distort domestic production by inducing domestic producers to commit labour and capital to produce goods and services that could have been acquired more cheaply on the ...