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 ...

The world’s products are exchanged as never before, and with increasing transportation facilities come increasing knowledge ...

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 ...

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.

“I’ll be putting the tariff of 25 percent on Canada and Mexico, and we will really have to do that because we have very big deficits with those countries. Those tariffs may or may not rise ...

2:00 Canadian shoppers look to buy local as U.S. tariff threat looms The small business advocacy group published its latest Business Barometer on Thursday, a survey of member organizations that ...

Howard Lutnick, Trump’s incoming commerce secretary and former top executive at the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, had been a key supporter of the maximalist tariff approach ...

Later in life, as a politician, McKinley would declare himself a tariff man — intent on protecting American workers and industry. But historians say Trump’s understanding of McKinley is ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25-per-cent tariffs are still nothing more than a threat, but they’re already forcing policymakers to prepare for the worst-case scenario. The Bank of Canada ...

1:52 Tariff threats, climate change and weak Loonie jolt coffee prices Surging prices for coffee on global markets are coinciding with a weak Canadian dollar, putting a “pinch” on cafés and ...

“We expect Trump to implement more tariffs this year and for the average tariff rate on goods imported into the US to rise significantly in 2025,” he said. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot ...