Tariffs are a type of trade barrier that makes imported products more expensive than domestic ones. Tariffs typically come in the form of taxes or duties levied on importers, and they're eventually ...

On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best remembered for ...

Section 1. Background. The United States has one of the most open economies and has among the lowest average weighted tariff rates in the world. The United States imposes fewer barriers to imports ...

With most of President Donald Trump’s policies—even the seemingly more outlandish ones—there’s often an important underlying truth. On tariffs, a long-standing priority of his, he raises valid ...

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration released an encyclopedic list of foreign countries' policies and regulations it regards as trade barriers on Monday, two ...

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To hear President Donald Trump tell it, the world is full of crafty foreigners who use “unfair” tariffs and other trade barriers to steal jobs and wealth from hapless Americans. But foreigners have ...

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China will examine whether European Union investigations of Chinese enterprises amounted to "trade barriers," its commerce ministry said on Wednesday. The enquiry will ...

Environmentalists do not get on with free-traders. Suspicion is the norm, if not the outright hostility on display at the “Battle of Seattle” in 1999, which took place between riot police and ...

Interprovincial trade barriers are a drain on productivity and economic prosperity in Canada and nowhere is it felt as much as in the four Atlantic provinces. Goods moving between the Atlantic ...