For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end.

Laffer, along with fellow economist Steve Moore, co-authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, " A Win-Win Exit Strategy ...

Although Mr Trump’s intentions in unleashing the biggest disruption to trade in modern history are not fully clear, he seems ...

Building manufacturing plants takes years, sometimes decades, of planning — so the pay-offs for tariffs may be harder to find ...

President Donald Trump has named April 2 as the day to unveil sweeping new tariffs, which are taxes on imported goods that ...

Believing the myth that trade deficits are bad, the Trump Administration imposed global reciprocal tariffs this week. The proposal threatens to derail economic prosperity and trigger a barn burner ...

Whenever the subject of trade comes up, many right-leaning free traders and left-leaning neoliberals alike trot out the same talking point: “The economists all agree tariffs are terrible!” ...