President Donald Trump made at least nine false claims in his Friday remarks to reporters in the Oval Office – including a ...

Tariffs are Trump's weapon of choice in on-again, off-again trade wars with Colombia, Canada, Mexico, China, importers of ...

One of the most perilous economic myths influencing global macroeconomic and trade policy today is that governments have to ...

COLUMN. Donald Trump's protectionist credo jeopardizes the continuation of this program of trade preferences benefiting the ...

Why tariffs are driving the U.S. stock market down.

Corn harvest at a farm near Mapleton, North Dakota during the autumn of 2024. Farmers await further news of how the trade war will impact them if tariffs against Canada and Mexico go into effect.

As trade uncertainty grows, global cooperation and balanced policies will be key to preventing economic fragmentation and ...

This could happen because the United States consumes much more than it produces, gobbling up the difference in the form of persistent trade deficits, and financing those deficits with debt ...

To put the issue in perspective, the last time the US ran a trade surplus (i.e., exports exceeding imports) was 1975; and while we’ve had deficits since then, over the last 15 years or so ...

Importers brought in a whole lot of electronics, pharmaceutical products and other goods that would be exposed to the Donald Trump administration’s new tariffs, causing the trade deficit to ...

The Commerce Department reported a record $918.4 billion U.S. trade deficit in 2024. President Trump believes a trade deficit is harmful to the American economy because it signifies that the U.S ...