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Billions of dollars of military equipment including Patriot Missiles will be funded by the European members of NATO, President Trump said. 

The S&P 500 is up 25 percent since the Liberation Day sell-off.

The Trump Administration announced that it will be implementing a 30 percent tariff on all commercial goods that move north of the border. President Donald Trump took the punitive action due to Mexico’s failure to do enough against drug cartels

The EU will suspend retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods scheduled to take effect Monday in hopes of reaching a trade deal with the Trump administration by the end of the month.<

The African nation of Lesotho declared a two-year “state of disaster” this week over “high rates of youth unemployment and job losses,” which have ostensibly been exacerbated by uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday, their first meeting in person since Rubio took office. 

The $27 billion surplus reported Friday by the Treasury Department stood in stark contrast to forecasts for a $50 billion deficit, representing one of the largest upside surprises in recent budget data.

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that Brazil will reciprocate the United States’ 50-percent tariff on August 1 if no “solution” is found through diplomatic channels before the deadline.

President Donald J. Trump issued a direct warning to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in a newly released letter, threatening a 35 percent tariff on Canadian imports starting August 1, citing what he describes as Canada’s role in fueling America’s fentanyl crisis and longstanding trade imbalances.

President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a 50-percent tariff on Wednesday on Brazilian products sent into the United States, citing the “witch hunt” against conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, which he described as an “international disgrace.”

If you were wondering how Federal Reserve officials view Donald Trump’s tariff plans, the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes make one thing perfectly clear: they all think tariffs are inflationary.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru said on Tuesday he found it “deeply regrettable” that President Donald Trump announced he would impose reciprocal tariffs of 25 percent on exports from Japan.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued letters to the leaders of seven nations on Wednesday informing them of the tariff rate goods from their countries will face coming into the United States to correct trade deficits.

South Korea sent its National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac to Washington this week to meet with top officials in the administration of President Donald Trump, telling reporters that his government sought to handle security concerns alongside trade negotiations in anticipation of the August 1 tariff deadline.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that his administration is close to finalizing a trade deal with India. India hedged its bets last week by notifying the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it could impose up to $724 million in retaliatory tariffs against American goods if a trade deal is not reached.

South Africa found itself one of 14 countries slapped with large tariff increases by U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday as a punitive measure for lack of progress in negotiations, and now faces a 30% duty.

The intellectual scaffolding for Trump’s tariff policy is now in place, built not by political appointees but by credentialed economists with publication records.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced new tariff rates for South Africa, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan, posting letters to the leaders of each country on his Truth Social account.

President Donald Trump on Monday sent letters to the leaders of Japan and South Korea announcing that each will face a 25 percent tariff on goods exported to the United States.

President Donald Trump said late Sunday that imports from countries aligning with “the Anti-American policies of BRICS” would face an additional ten percent tariff.

Leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-myung told reporters during a press conference on Thursday that he was hoping to improve Seoul’s relationship to communist North, and its patrons in China and Russia, in pursuit of a definitive state of peace on the peninsula.

President Donald Trump has been on a serious winning streak nearly six months into his second term.

Amazon’s big “Prime Day” sale runs from July 8 to 11 this year, arriving at the height of President Donald Trump’s tariff crusade.

The critics said tariffs would start a trade war. Instead, Donald Trump may have just ended one.

Vietnam runs a very large trade surplus with the U.S. and a trade deficit with China, essentially recycling dollars from the U.S. into China.

Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, said Monday that newly enacted tariffs on Chinese goods have not led to meaningful price increases on the company’s platform, joining a growing body of evidence suggesting that recent trade measures have not produced the

Indonesian officials said on Monday they will begin easing import restrictions and licensing requirements ahead of the July 9 deadline for U.S. tariff negotiations.

The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday in FCC v. Consumers’ Research didn’t just preserve a telecom subsidy—it delivered a serious setback to efforts to dismantle President Trump’s trade agenda.

President Donald Trump terminated trade talks with Canada on Friday and will be announcing a tariff on Canadian goods in response to a Canadian tax on American tech goods.

Durable goods prices—the category most directly exposed to international trade—were flat month-over-month, showing zero growth after a 0.5 percent gain in April.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s belief that tariffs will push prices higher might be based on a new working paper from the Boston Fed that relies on a flawed model.

Executives with General Motors (GM) are working hard to curry favor with President Donald Trump’s administration.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on Wednesday, June 25.

The Fed chair once warned against using speculative forecasts to drive policy. Now he’s doing exactly that.

Fed chair tells lawmakers inflation could rise again due to Trump’s tariffs, keeping rate cuts on hold for now.