A tariff is a tax on imported goods usually aimed at protecting local jobs and industries from foreign competition. The idea is that if foreign materials and products are more expensive ...

President Trump, an avowed fan of tariffs, imposed a wave of new import duties Saturday on America's three closest trading partners — Mexico, Canada and China. Although tariffs are a bane to ...

Yinwei Liu / Getty Images A tariff is a type of tax levied by a country on an imported good at the border. Historically, tariffs have been used by governments to collect additional revenue.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday imposing a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada and 10% on imported Chinese goods, according to multiple reports, reflecting his ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --President Donald Trump warned Canada and Mexico to expect tariffs of 25% on exports to the United States starting Saturday. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump ...

Market anxiety ahead of Donald Trump's self-imposed Feb. 1 deadline for a first round of tariffs focused Friday on oil and gas after the president appeared to acknowledge Thursday there could be ...

President Donald Trump warned Canada and Mexico to expect tariffs of 25% on exports to the United States starting Saturday. He said he was taking the step to pressure them to take tougher action ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump faces a choice ahead of a Feb. 1 target date for his tariffs to begin kicking in: revenue or revenge? He campaigned on a blanket tariff that would generate ...

Mr. Trump is trying use tariffs to force Mexico to better guard its border with the United States, but Mexican officials say the tariffs will only hurt both countries. By Paulina Villegas ...

President Donald Trump has announced that he’s imposing a tariff on goods from some of the US’s biggest trade partners: Canada, Mexico, and China. Under the executive orders signed on February ...

President Donald Trump says he will impose his tariffs over the weekend, gambling that taxing American companies for imported goods will ultimately punish the countries that make stuff Americans ...

Many presidents use tariffs to force negotiations. But for President Trump, they are the point, a source of revenue as he pursues a Gilded Age vision. By David E. Sanger David E. Sanger has ...