"It’s not always the best idea to take somebody fresh out of jail and put them in charge of your trade policy" ...

But at the heart of the decision-making is Trump himself — who has agitated for tough tariffs for more than 40 years.

U.S. markets plunged in the wake of President Trump's announcement of new tariffs. Many stocks had their worst single day ...

The president believes it’s necessary to destroy the village in order to save it. Because it worked so well in Vietnam!

After a day of stock market shocks and global recriminations, there are reasons to question whether President Donald Trump ...

Critical decisions about the duties’ structure went down to the wire, even as steel and auto workers were being summoned to ...

Former Vice President Mike Pence says Trump's tariff plans are the "largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history." ...

Donald Trump is pretending the sharemarket carnage is all part of his grand plan to use tariffs to reboot the US economy.

Nearly $57bn was wiped off the Australian sharemarket on Friday after Donald Trump’s tariff blitz sparked a massive sell-off ...

For a policy Trump championed for months on the campaign trail and vowed to implement quickly as the centerpiece of his ...

While the White House’s top economic advisers have continued to insist that the administration’s massive new set of tariffs ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday contradicted his top aides on the purpose of his sprawling new global tariff regime, ...