What Mr. Trump is doing with tariffs is a result of a lost consensus about how the United States should interact with other ...

Tariff disputes are causing volatility under the new administration, but investors should have two bigger worries right now.

Tariff advocates perpetuate the myth that the state can solve economic problems by imposing artificial barriers.

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

President Trump recently instituted new tariffs on two allies and one adversary: 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% ...

The market response, as evidenced by the rise in steel stock prices, reflects investor sentiment on the potential advantages that protective tariffs could have for domestic steel producers. The ...

They have provided both positive and negative results. Madison signed the first protective tariff in American history. The Tariff of 1816 placed a tax on imported goods, protecting American ...

“Protective tariffs distort domestic production by inducing domestic producers to commit labor and capital to produce goods and services that could have been acquired more cheaply on the ...

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

"Tariffs are typically imposed for protection or revenue purposes," she said. "A protective tariff increases the price of imported goods relative to domestic goods, encouraging consumers to ...

"Tariffs are typically imposed for protection or revenue purposes," she said. "A protective tariff increases the price of imported goods relative to domestic goods, encouraging consumers to ...