Tariffs

In Beijing, President Donald Trump’s new threat to hike tariffs on Chinese goods has not gone over well. Stocks fell 5% in one Chinese stock exchange, 7.4% in another, and the currency tumbled. Politically, this puts Chinese leaders in a tough position. They want to end this trade war, but as we know, all politics […]

The cost of tariffs put on the appliances last year was passed on to U.S. consumers, according to new research.

Exhausted and burdened, businesses are ready for new policy on steel trade.

The White House had argued that a weakening Chinese economy would give the U.S. an advantage in negotiations.

For Sam Desai, vice president at RM Metals, a year of tariffs on his balance sheet changed his work habits.

In 2018, the Trump administration imposed tariffs of 30 percent on imported solar panels and set quotas to limit solar imports. This caused a slump in the solar energy industry. But two new reports show that last year wasn’t as bad as the industry feared, and predicts a boom in new solar installations this year. […]

Americans imported a record number of goods last year, according to new data from the Commerce Department released Wednesday. U.S. service exports also hit a record high. The net effect was the largest trade deficit since 2008 — $621 billion, up nearly 13 percent from the prior year. However, many economists say the U.S. trade deficit […]

The trade talks will be held in Washington on Wednesday. Last year, a dispute between the two parties erupted over cars  — the Trump administration demanded that the Europeans cut their 10 percent import tariff on American vehicles. In July, a trans-Atlantic truce was reached. But the dispute has since widened beyond cars, and that […]

The president cites "substantial progress" in weekend talks.

"We're trying to make sure that we don't lose jobs and that we treat our American companies fairly," Rep. Jackie Walorski says.