Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday on ABC’s “Meet the Press” that the Trump administration’s trade negotiations with several Asian countries are “moving along very well.”
Developing countries should strike swift trade deals with the United States at the “earliest possible” opportunity, the president of the World Bank said.
Call it protectionism if you like. But the proper name is older and more precise. It’s called the optimum tariff. And at long last, it’s being put to work for America.
The elite American media won’t tell the story of President Trump’s tariffs agenda through the lens of the loss and pain that fuels it. Trump is doing this for counties like Cabarrus, North Carolina. For Weirton, West Virginia. For Danville, Virginia, and too many more American locals that were formally steel, mill, and textile capitals of the world.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says President Donald Trump’s trade policies could create “the opportunity of a lifetime” for India.
President Donald Trump will slap 104-percent tariffs on China at midnight Tuesday after Xi Jinping refused to withdraw retaliatory tariffs placed on the United States.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that it was “absolutely a fallacy” that the United States is getting ripped off because they have a trade deficit with another country.
President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs have helped open trade negotiations between the United States and one of its key economic partners — Japan.
President Donald Trump is threatening China with additional 50-percent tariffs in response to China’s retaliatory tariffs on the United States.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is opposing President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs after spending his career in Washington, DC, trashing the nation’s decades-long free trade policy for allowing multinational corporations to easily outsource American jobs to low-wage countries like China and Vietnam.
The Chamber of Commerce is attacking Trump’s reciprocal tariffs while lobbying lawmakers in Washington, DC, to negotiate more free trade deals.
In 1996, on the House floor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) assailed a then-bipartisan plan to give Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status to China, arguing that while the U.S. has low tariffs on China-made goods, China has high tariffs on American goods.
General Motors (GM) plans to expand production at one of its plants in Indiana thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign-made cars.
Stellantis is halting production at two manufacturing plants, one in Canada and another in Mexico, just a day after Trump announced auto tariffs.
Nike stock is plunging on Thursday, the day after President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs that will end the nation’s decades-long free trade policy.
Michigan union workers are hailing President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign-made cars, telling a crowd in the Rose Garden on Wednesday evening that the president’s economic nationalist agenda will revitalize communities gutted from decades of free trade policies.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) is praising Trump’s auto tariffs, thanking him for “stepping up to end the free trade disaster.”
A properly designed tariff policy is not an attack on free trade. It is the only way to save it in a world where trade has been manipulated by mercantilist government policies.
President Donald Trump hammered the Wall Street Journal, which has been highly critical of his tariff policies, and declared the United States does not currently enjoy free trade, in a pair of Truth Social posts on Thursday.
President of Argentina Javier Milei reportedly plans to have the South American nation sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Israel.
Walmart is telling its China-based suppliers to absorb the cost of President Donald Trump’s increased tariffs on Chinese-made products.
President Trump’s tariff policies are a recognition that America cannot fix its economy without confronting the policies of surplus nations that have spent decades rigging the system in their favor.
America has become an unwitting partner in a trade policy designed in Beijing—a policy that systematically erodes U.S. manufacturing, distorts global markets, and leaves American workers at a disadvantage.
Wall Street might not like it. The free-trade purists might complain. But the reality is clear: tariffs are not an attack on free trade. They are the only way to make free trade real.
President-elect Donald Trump is promising “very serious tariffs” on Canada, as well as Mexico, as part of a broader economic nationalist agenda to recoup losses from trade deficits.
Tariffs planned by President-Elect Donald Trump next year will not spike inflation, incoming trade advisor Peter Navarro says.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) visited the United States-Mexico border on Thursday to repeat big business talking points about tariffs and President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to deport millions of illegal aliens with no legal right to be in the U.S.
While the media has focused on Trump’s colorful claims about his love for tariffs, few have noticed the bold innovation behind his trade strategy, which amounts to a revolution in thinking about trade that completely upends the core arguments against tariffs.
Trump says the auto industry will be wiped out by outsourcing to Mexico if Kamala Harris wins next month’s presidential election.
Swing state voters trust former President Donald Trump more than Vice President Kamala Harris on international trade and tariffs, polls found.
The majority of voters say they are more likely to back a presidential candidate who supports U.S. tariffs on all foreign imports.
President Joe Biden’s United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai announced increased U.S. tariffs on China, initially imposed by former President Donald Trump. The tariff increases come even as Vice President Kamala Harris attacks the use of tariffs on the presidential campaign trail.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed between Nicaragua’s communist regime and China has had little to no effect on improving the Nicaraguan economy, the local newspaper La Prensa reported on Friday.
Germany-based Volkswagen is considering closing plants in its home country as automakers in the European Union (EU) grapple with a flood of cheap China-made cars that are increasingly making up a share of auto sales in the continent.
Vice President Kamala Harris attacked the idea of placing United States tariffs on foreign imports to favor domestic producers during her speech at the Democrat National Convention (DNC).
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) torched President Joe Biden during his Republican National Convention (RNC) speech on Wednesday evening.
United States tariffs on China-made imports have helped rescue America’s left-behind textile industry from devastation after decades of free trade that came with mass layoffs of the nation’s textile workers.
The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, signed a “Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)” alongside South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul on Wednesday, dramatically expanding trade between the two countries.
Hundreds of West Virginia workers have been thrown back into job hunting in a labor market with slashed wages as a plant in Weirton closed last week. The plant closure comes as the federal government refused to impose tariffs on cheap imported tin.
Senators are calling on President Joe Biden to hike United States tariffs on imported aluminum to save American jobs.
