President Trump’s new tariffs aim to narrow the big trade deficits the U.S. runs with a host of countries.
Economists and legal experts question how the strongest economy in the world can be facing a national emergency over the trade deficit.
The president has been announcing tariffs for months, but economists see his latest moves as opening salvos in potentially drawn-out tit-for-tats with dozens of countries and countless repercussions.
As markets plunged and world leaders expressed anger and dismay over Trump's tariffs, Mexico took a more measured and hopeful approach.
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Fox News host Jesse Watters explains how the U.S. is ‘already seeing the light at the end of the tunnel’ with President Donald Trump’s trade policies on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
India is the world's fastest-growing major economy. How it deals with Trump will define its economic trajectory.
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Trump said that non-monetary trade barriers from our trade partners are sometimes worse than monetary ones in the form of tariffs imposed on the U.S. “They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports,
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