We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff thanks to a gesture of good will from Yankees to the Old South in 1913 ...

"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 ...

According to Telsey Advisory Group senior managing director Joe Feldman, if the proposed tariffs take effect, every retailer ...

These challenges include: Specific tariff rates are a protective tariff applied to a particular quantity of an imported good. For example, a country might impose a specific tariff of $5 on every ...

Inflation has fallen sharply over the past two years, although it’s turned sticky lately and remains moderately above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. Click to read.

Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...

Euro zone manufacturers are more worried about cheap imports from China than tariffs from the United States, a European ...

The threat of more global trade tariffs could push companies into deals to shield themselves, according to one of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s top bankers. “Those will provide a catalyst for M&A ...

President McKinley, Republican 1987 – 1901, raised protective tariffs to promote US industry. The 1890 Tariff Act increased average duties across all imports from 38% to 49.5%. Later ...