The Journalist's Resource and Econofact recently hosted a webinar on covering tariffs. Watch the recording and read key ...

After promising during his election campaign to put import taxes back at the center of US economic policy during his second ...

President Trump is an avowed supporter of tariffs, but many experts say such trade measures can boost inflation.

President Trump’s support for high tariffs and disdain for free trade harkens back to a much older policy — the Smoot-Hawley ...

Tariffs are pure Trump: unconventional, daring, unafraid of challenging established relationships and ways of conducting business and diplomacy, contemptuous of history and, in this case, even geograp ...

The average tariff rate on all imports could spike seven times higher in 2025 under Trump. The United States has not seen an ...

President Donald Trump is set to follow through on one of his major campaign promises: placing new tariffs on Canada, Mexico ...

Kurt Bauer, president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, notes that while WMC’s members may ...

For example, Congress passed a sweeping range of tariff hikes, some as high as 60%, after the stock market crash of 1929 under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act to protect the farming industry.

And during the Great Depression, the Hawley-Smoot tariff boosted the average U.S. import tax to 59 per cent. For a century and a half, from the early 1800s until the late 1940s, U.S. tariffs were ...