Those tariffs are widely credited with sinking the United States deeper into the Great Depression. And although global trade ...

What he’s doing with import fees is a result of a lost consensus about how the United States should interact with other ...

Two years later the great "Tariff Act of 1864" was passed, which is said to be the largest financial transaction in the world's history. Internal taxes were considerably raised, and tariff duties ...

Two Democratic senators introduced a bill that would require President Trump to get congressional approval for proposed ...

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune There are many memorable scenes from the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. One ...

The U.S. has used tariffs since its founding in the 18th century. They were primarily a way to raise revenue in the nation's early days. Later, tariffs were largely used to restrict imports or as ...

One historic example of tariffs shaping an industry is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 in the United States. Passed during the Great Depression, this act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 ...

"With the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act, we’ll give the executive the leverage necessary to go to bat for the American people and achieve tariff reductions on U.S. goods," he said. Trump released a ...

In fact, the Tariff Act of 1789 was among the first bills ever passed by Congress. Since then, the U.S. has used tariffs to achieve three broad goals, said Douglas Irwin, an economics professor at ...