Contrary to what the buoyant stock market might be indicating, this combination of trade policy uncertainty and unusually high import tariff levels does not bode well for this year’s US economic ...
Commentary: It is too early to know the total damage tariffs might inflict on the economy. It is not too early to see they are failing to meet basic objectives.
President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs on imports from dozens of countries kicked in today, raising the average U.S. import duty to its highest in a century and leaving major trade partners such as ...
When Edward Heath, a man with angular facial features was elected as the United Kingdom’s prime minister, the London Times’s cartoonist was asked for his reaction. He replied that as a private citizen ...
If you bought a nice, imported bottle of wine recently, there’s a better than 90% chance it entered the United States only after the importer paid a tariff, probably about 15%. That six-pack of ...
We’ve been living through the chaotic on-again, off-again tariff roller coaster since January, when Trump tariffs first went into effect. To date, U.S. Customs has collected about $150 billion in ...