U.S. Trade Deficit Plummets in April U.S. trade fell sharply as President Trump’s global tariffs began to weigh on imports.The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services narrowed sharply in A […]

U.S.-China Trade War Morphs From Tariffs Into Fight Over Supply Chain Instead of battling over tariffs, Washington and Beijing have turned to a potentially far more harmful strategy: flexing their control over global supply […]

U.S. Pauses Exports of Jet Engine Technology and Chip Software to China President Trump has stopped some critical products and technologies made only in the United States from flowing to China, flexing the government’s power o […]

Have You Seen Evidence of Trade Crime? We Want to Hear From You. The New York Times is looking to talk to business owners and employees who have seen evidence of tariff dodging or customs fraud.For as long as the United […]

Trump’s Threatened Tariffs Are So Large, 10% Feels Like a Relief As he proposes ever stiffer tariffs, President Trump has normalized his merely big ones.There has been a mantra spreading among weary corporate executives […]

Trump Officials to Meet With Chinese Counterparts Amid Trade Standoff Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, and Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, will discuss trade and economic matters with the […]

Trump Ends Chinese Tariff Loophole, Raising the Cost of Online Goods Supporters say the change is important to stop cheap Chinese goods from entering the U.S. But the decision could drive up prices for goods Americans buy […]

A Tidal Wave of Change Is Headed for the U.S. Economy When the Covid pandemic hit, factories in China shut down and global shipping traffic slowed. Within a matter of a few weeks, products began disappearing […]

Trump’s ‘Buoyant’ Trade Warrior Flexes His Power Over Global Business Since Howard Lutnick was tapped to serve as President Trump’s commerce secretary, executives from some of the world’s largest companies have been trying to […]

Trump Team Races to Form Trade Deals After Tariffs Sow Global Chaos The president’s threats of tariffs have brought countries like Japan, South Korea and India rushing to negotiate, but they have sown chaos with bigger t […]

Peter Navarro: The Architect of Trump’s Tariffs On a clear day last July in Miami, Peter Navarro emerged from four months in federal prison, where he’d been imprisoned for contempt of Congress. Mr. N […]

Trump Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming ‘Very Soon’ President Trump is expected to announce further tariffs this week, probably including levies on semiconductors, as he moves forward with a trade […]

Trump Has Added 145% Tariff to China, White House Clarifies The White House on Thursday clarified that China faced a minimum tariff rate of 145 percent on all imports to the United States.A day earlier, President […]

Trump’s Tariff Goal Is to Eliminate Trade Deficits. Economists Have Doubts. Behind Trump’s new tariffs is a goal that is as ambitious as it is unrealistic: eliminating the bilateral trade deficit with every U.S. trading p […]

Navarro Defends Trump Tariffs Amid Criticism From Elon Musk Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser, on Monday defended the sweeping tariffs President Trump has imposed on foreign nations and indicated that […]

Why Did Trump Impose Tariffs, and What’s Next? Everything to Know. President Trump announced what could be one of the most dramatic economic policy changes in decades on Wednesday, when he substituted America’s l […]

Trump Says His Tariffs Will Address Unfair Global Trade. Is He Right? President Trump has accused America’s trading partners of undermining the United States for decades, saying they have engaged in unfair trade practices to s […]

Trump Is Set to Unveil Expansive Global Tariffs The president on Wednesday will announce sweeping tariffs that he says will restore fairness to the global trading system.President Trump is set to unveil […]

Want to Play a Game? Global Trade War Is the New Washington Pastime. Two dozen trade experts gathered recently to simulate how a global trade war would play out. The results were surprisingly optimistic.The world’s biggest p […]

Trump Administration Tallies Trade Barriers That Could Prompt Tariffs The Office of the United States Trade Representative released a report Monday highlighting foreign trade barriers that could influence tariffs the president […]