President Donald Trump is sending out a flurry of letters to U.S. trading partners threatening to raise their tariffs on Aug. 1 if they do not remove trade barriers. Here is how high he is setting ...

President Donald Trump threatened to add a 10% tariff rate on BRICS-aligned countries. The term first applied to 4 countries ...

President Donald Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea next month, prolonging the “Liberation Day” duty pause on those two allies amid trade negotiations. Trump announced the ...

Trump delayed the "reciprocal tariffs" in April, vowing to strike roughly 90 trade deals in 90 days. So far, the White House ...

President Donald Trump unveiled his most sweeping volley of tariffs yet — holding up large charts from the White House Rose ...

President Donald Trump on Monday placed a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea, citing persistent trade ...

Tariffs have been a part of the American fabric since 1789. President Trump has placed tariffs at the center of todays debate ...

Every so often, people, especially politicians, in certain areas decide that they can do away with federal laws they do not ...

For much of the United States’ history, this is precisely what it did — through a series of colorfully named tariff programs like the Tariff of Abominations of 1828, the Dingley Tariff of 1897 ...

From the Tariff Act of 1789, passed by the First Congress, to the Tariff of Abominations passed in 1828, to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff passed in 1930, it has always been understood that the ...

Tariff shocks emanating from the US have occurred on a routinely half-century cycle for the past 250 years: 1789, 1828, 1890, 1930, 1971.

Key legislation, such as the Tariff of 1828, also known as the “Tariff of Abominations,” and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, had significant economic and political impacts.