Tariffs have dominated headlines since President Donald Trump took office just over two weeks ago, as he threatened steep, sweeping tariffs on goods the United States imports from its three largest ...

The Trump Administration has imposed new tariffs on China, but what is a tariff, and how could they impact prices for local ...

Trump discussed the tariffs in a series of posts on his social media platform, Truth Social. One update announced the official orders of the tariffs, stating that the decision was made to “protect” ...

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 ...

Subscribe to the Daily News Brief. Countries around the world have long used tariffs, a tax on imports, to prop up homegrown industries by inducing citizens to buy goods produced domestically.

President Donald Trump has said that he will delay tariffs on Mexican imports for at least a month as the country south of ...

The authorities could allow the country’s currency, the peso, to weaken against the dollar, effectively making its exports ...

President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico risked blowing up North America’s economy.

Uncertainty surrounds the trade war touched off by Trump’s tariffs. But some of the basics are taking shape.

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.