Tariffs have become President Donald Trump's favored economic move, prompting a lot of folks to ask what it is they even do.

Understanding who will end up paying for the higher costs means understanding how manufacturing, trade and supply chains function — and how costs build along each step of the complex process. Take ...

Trump calls it unfair that some countries apply higher tariffs to specific American goods than the U.S. applies back. A new ...

tia.yang ( Tia Yang, senior editor): Americans overall are fairly split over tariffs. Broadly speaking, polls this year have ...

The bad economics of import taxes was succinctly summed up by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), one of the few Republicans to criticize Trump’s tariffs: “Tariffs are simply taxes. Conservatives once united ...

He’s made clear that includes value-added taxes, or VATs, which is the way most countries—including the entire rich world ...

But there’s a method behind Trump’s tariff plan. Trump has used and promised to expand tariffs for three primary purposes: to ...

The answer on tariffs, as with many issues in government, lies at the intersection of constitutional authority and ...

The president imposed a 25 percent tariff on global metals, repeating a move from his first term. Economists and foreign ...

American President Donald Trump has announced imposing reciprocal tariffs on its major trading partners including China that ...

The forceful Realpolitik application of U.S. trade policies and tariff threats is intended to support U.S. national security ...