Tariffs typically come in the form of taxes or duties levied on importers, and they're eventually passed on to consumers. They're commonly used in international trade as a protectionist measure.

The United States has postponed planned 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports by a month, following 11th-hour ...

Here’s how present events are mirroring a key point in U.S. history that led to a trade war and exacerbated the Great ...

Although tariffs are a bane to most economists, they are a widely used as a tool for regulating international trade and for shielding domestic industries from foreign competition. At the simplest ...

We discuss the economic consequences of tariffs, why governments use them, and whether they actually achieve their intended ...

As trade tensions rise between China and the United States, Canada is not out of the water yet, leaving some to wonder if an ...

By Ana Swanson Ana Swanson has written about international trade for over a decade. President Trump is moving forward with extensive tariffs on America’s closest trading partners. Beginning ...

The president’s trade assault, which makes no distinction between ally and adversary, is an assertion of U.S. dominance with ...

Business groups, economists and even some Republicans cautioned that new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China could ...