The Trump administration is reportedly looking to ease some tariffs on goods not produced in the U.S., as the consequences of a universal tariff scheme are becoming impossible to ignore.
The correct answer is: Yes, even when they are also regulations. Whether the Court agrees could determine the future of presidential power.
The evidence is clear that we are paying more, U.S. firms have lower margins, and exports are collapsing in flagship industries.
“We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them,” the Georgia congresswoman said.
It turns out that free trade is essential for the military too.
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The war in Gaza was already over in January. Trump let it reopen and expand. A ceasefire is good—but it should have happened much earlier.
In a new Supreme Court term packed with big cases, these disputes stand out.
The Trump administration has already claimed the power to raise taxes without congressional approval. Now it is going to spend money that way too.
This time, Democrats turned the most basic government housekeeping into hostage drama.
The president’s movie tariff proposal faces several legal and logistical challenges to implementation.
Trump’s trade war is hitting wineries, distillers, and distributors with product shortages and soaring costs—leaving customers to pick up the tab.
The bailout would simply redistribute wealth from American businesses and consumers to farmers. Here's a better idea: end the tariffs.
There’s an opportunity to abandon bad policies that raise consumer costs and move toward free trade.
The OECD just published its projections for American growth, and they're grim.
The president’s attempt to evade the major questions doctrine deserves to be rejected.
House Republicans passed a resolution that prevents Congress from ending the national emergency Trump is using to impose tariffs until March 31.
Whether he is waging the drug war, imposing tariffs, deporting alleged gang members, or fighting crime, the president thinks he can do "anything I want to do."
Inflation hit its highest level since January, with prices rising 0.4 percent in August.
The cases will be considered on an accelerated schedule.
The same legal theory that tripped up Joe Biden's student loan scheme could also sink Donald Trump's tariffs.
We agree the Court should take the case and resolve it as quickly as possible, to minimize the harm caused by the illegal tariffs.
Trump promised that protectionism and immigration enforcement would be good for the economy. The latest jobs report tells a different story.
The U.S. is risking its liberty and its prosperity with such high tariffs.
Manufacturing has been in decline for six months, nearly the exact amount of time since Trump's new trade wars began.
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The administration attributed the $8 trillion figure both to new investment and to tariff revenue. So which is it? Neither.
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Donald Trump's claim that the appeals court ruled against him for partisan or ideological reasons is hard to take seriously.
The administration says the country faces complete destruction if it's forced to pay back money it hasn't yet received.
The Administration's arguments have more doctrinal support than some might think
Seven judges agreed that the president's assertion of unlimited authority to tax imports is illegal and unconstitutional.
Labor Day is a great time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration.
In a 7-4 ruling, the en banc court upheld trial court ruling against all the challenged tariffs. The scope of the injunction against them remains to be determined.
Trump went "beyond the authority delegated to the President," the court ruled, but it vacated an injunction that could have provided immediate tariff relief to American businesses.
I got a pair of shoes delivered from Asia for a reasonable price. Trump just ended the exemption that makes that transaction possible.
Should they brag about raising taxes, like the White House is doing, or try to distance themselves from those same tax increases?
Tariffs are making it more expensive and inconvenient for Americans to explore their creative sides.
Is this another example of Trump's inability to understand why global trade is good for America, or does it suggest something even more serious?
Protectionism won't save the American furniture industry, but it will increase the cost of living.
The Trump administration recently expanded its list of tariffs to include grid transformers, parts of nuclear reactors, and parts for offshore oil drilling.
European postal services are cutting off delivery to the United States, leaving entrepreneurs and consumers scrambling.
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The deal locks in the 15 percent tariffs that Trump has imposed on most European goods imported into the U.S., including beers and other booze that isn't made here.
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They are among the worst taxes imaginable—narrow, arbitrary, unstable, and regressive.
