The new U.S. tariffs rattling markets and promising globe-spanning trade barriers reflect a fixation of President Trump’s: the difference between how much stuff the U.S. buys from and sells to each of ...

President Trump and his team had said a wide array of practices would go into their calculations for reciprocal tariffs announced this week, ranging from existing duties and currency manipulation to ...

President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order imposing tariffs on imported goods from across the world during a press conference at the White House's Rose Garden on Wednesday. The formula ...

The White House’s new tariffs were pegged to amounts it said other countries impose on the U.S. In many cases, those amounts appear to match a basic formula: the size of a country's goods-trade ...

One economist called the calculations "extraordinary nonsense." When President Donald Trump announced his controversial tariffs on virtually every trading partner in the world, he repeatedly called ...

President Donald Trump introduced his “discounted reciprocal tariffs” on over 200 countries on April 2. Most countries receive a base tariff rate of 10%, but for countries receiving more, the rates ...

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When President Donald Trump initially announced his new tariffs in February, he proposed them as a “fair and reciprocal plan on trade.” And so it was assumed that these reciprocal tariffs, as they are ...

Dr. Stan Veuger breaks down the math that President Donald Trump’s administration used to calculate the tariffs and says there’s an error in the equation ...

President Donald Trump’s formula for imposing tariffs on dozens of nations has confounded economists who say it not based on well-established methodologies and suggests that the administration is ...

Mr. Neiman was a Biden administration Treasury official who co-wrote trade-related academic research cited by the Trump White House. My first question, when the White House unveiled its tariff regime, ...