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President Donald Trump holds an executive order about tariffs increase, flanked by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 13, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Fear of rising supply chain costs as a result of President Donald Trump’s new tariffs expected to be implemented…
President Trump is poised to move forward with sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum on Monday, re-upping a policy from his first term that pleased domestic metal makers, but hurt other American industries and ignited trade wars with allies on multiple fronts. The 25 percent tariffs that the president said he would impose on…
Shipping containers from China at the China Shipping (North America) Holding Company Ltd. facility at the Port of Los Angeles in Wilmington, California, Feb. 4, 2025. Mike Blake | Reuters President Donald Trump has long been a fan of tariffs, and in his first month back in the White House he wasted no time imposing…
To President Trump, one economic number represents everything that is wrong with the global economy: America’s trade deficit. That deficit is the total value of what the United States imports from other nations, minus its exports to other countries. The fact that America runs a trade deficit reflects how the nation’s appetite for foreign goods…
An Amazon warehouse and distribution centre in an industrial park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Graham Hughes | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is set to face legal action from a Canadian union after the company’s decision to wind down warehouse operations in Quebec. The Federation of National Trade Unions, known…
The trade fight with China is officially on, with Washington and Beijing exchanging blows that could raise prices on an array of goods. And President Trump has threatened to target the European Union next. But as Monday’s whirlwind of news, including last-minute reprieves for Canada and Mexico, showed, it’s hard to figure out what Trump…
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on during a press conference while responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s orders to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 1, 2025. Patrick Doyle | Reuters President Donald Trump on Monday agreed to pause the implementation of planned U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada…
Shana Novak | Stone | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s steep tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could worsen existing drug shortages in the U.S., raise health-care costs for patients and threaten cash-strapped generic drugmakers, some drug trade groups warn. Trump on Saturday announced he would impose a 25% tariff on nearly all goods shipped…
President Trump’s tariffs target countries that are major suppliers of a wide range of goods to the United States. For American families, the likely result is higher prices nearly everywhere they turn — in grocery aisles, car dealerships, electronics stores and at the pump. Mr. Trump on Saturday signed executive orders imposing tariffs on the…
What a weekend of headlines, from tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico to Elon Musk getting inside the Treasury Department’s payment system. We have all of the details below — a cheat sheet of the whirlwind of changes that will probably affect the global economy and society. We also have lots of questions about what’s…