Understanding who will end up paying for the higher costs means understanding how manufacturing, trade and supply chains function — and how costs build along each step of the complex process. Take ...

tia.yang ( Tia Yang, senior editor): Americans overall are fairly split over tariffs. Broadly speaking, polls this year have ...

The bad economics of import taxes was succinctly summed up by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), one of the few Republicans to criticize Trump’s tariffs: “Tariffs are simply taxes. Conservatives once united ...

Trump calls it unfair that some countries apply higher tariffs to specific American goods than the U.S. applies back. A new ...

The impact of the proposed reciprocal tariffs by the United States on India will depend on how the policy is ...

The answer on tariffs, as with many issues in government, lies at the intersection of constitutional authority and ...

The whipsaw of tariffs—some potentially beneficial and others less so—have left CEOs and investors temporarily frozen.

Put simply, a tariff is a tax placed on the cost of importing or exporting goods by a certain country. A 60% tariff on Chinese imports would therefore be a 60% tax on the cost to import, say, computer ...

The president imposed a 25 percent tariff on global metals, repeating a move from his first term. Economists and foreign ...

The announcement came hours before Trump met with visiting India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House.

But there’s a method behind Trump’s tariff plan. Trump has used and promised to expand tariffs for three primary purposes: to ...

Learn how tariffs influence U.S. trade, national security and economic policy. Explore their impact on industries, consumers ...