As US President Donald Trump has opened another front in the trade wars, let's understand the what, why, and how of this issue from a broader perspective.

President Donald Trump is making a significant wager that his "America First" trade policy will rejuvenate the economy.

Donald Trump says “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. He is using tariffs to make American imperialism ...

President Trump is teasing new moves in international trade this week, while Elon Musk is trying to continue his blitz through federal agencies.

The US is facing the clear and present danger of losing its soft-power acumen, and losing trust from its partners, with ...

The US president has fired the first salvo of his tariff war, with general levies of 25% on Canada and Mexico and 10% on China. DW examines how the new tariffs will hit North America's integrated ...

Trump, as he did eight years ago, won the White House thanks to voters angry about an economy that many feel doesn’t work for them, even if aggregate data shows it’s in good shape. The president’s ...

He declared himself a “Tariff Man” and began slapping tariffs on imports under the mistaken belief that doing so would help American workers. Many of those tariffs were continued and expanded ...

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 ...

He also threatened the BRICS group of nations, of which India is a part, with tariffs if they did not accept his demand of committing to not create a new currency. Again while talking to House ...

The shipping industry is entering 2025 with tariffs on the horizon. China, in particular, is expected to be targeted by President-elect Donald Trump when he takes office. The industry is prepared.

Speaking to the Economic Club of Chicago last year, Trump said, “The most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff.’” Not all his economic advisers are as smitten, worrying about a tit ...