Trump's Furniture Tariffs Will Make It Harder To Turn Your House Into a Home
Protectionism won't save the American furniture industry, but it will increase the cost of living.
Protectionism won't save the American furniture industry, but it will increase the cost of living.
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.
Becoming a taxidermist or hair braider shouldn't involve costly hurdles.
They are among the worst taxes imaginable—narrow, arbitrary, unstable, and regressive.
It makes little sense, but that's what happens when you give the president unchecked, unilateral tariff powers.
Since returning to office in January, Trump has floated several deals that would involve the feds taking a piece of an American company.
U.S. authorities are secretly tracking shipments of advanced AI chips from manufacturers such as Dell, Super Micro, Nvidia, and AMD to prevent their illegal diversion to China.
The president's revenue-sharing agreement on chip sales to China may pass legal muster, paving the way for effective export tariffs.
Switzerland might respond to Trump’s double-digit “reciprocal” tariff by canceling its multibillion-dollar F-35 order.
With over 3,200 workers off the job, the military’s reliance on one politically connected contractor threatens innovation, accountability, and national security.
The Trump administration will allow Nvidia and AMD to sell chips in the Chinese market—in exchange for 15 percent of their revenue.
Unionized drivers and politicians say regulation is needed to stop autonomous vehicles from replacing jobs.
The 10 percent baseline reciprocal tariff rate was bad for America; the 15 percent rate is even worse.
According to one analyst, the U.S. would need between 42,000 and 250,000 more acres growing tomatoes to replace Mexican imports.
Increasing the cost of inputs and imported energy would make American exports less competitive.
An outdated supply management system—designed to protect Quebec’s small dairy farms—is undermining Canada's global trade ambitions and hurting its own consumers.
The Trump Organization says the phone is domestically manufactured, but its hardware—and a statement from Eric Trump—suggest otherwise.
Refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, washing machines, and dryers are among the products subject to the president’s 50 percent tariff on imports derived from aluminum and steel.
Triple-digit bilateral tariffs have been brought down to double digits. Negotiations on semiconductors and rare earth elements will continue.
"New opportunities for innovation, economic growth, and global engagement," says one expert.
The site of George Washington's famed winter encampment might not have existed without colonial-era iron regulations.
The right number of dolls? As many as your kid wants.
Tariffs on creative media are barriers not just to goods, but also to ideas.
Sex toys, blenders, baby strollers, microwaves, hair dryers, and other affordable goods that Americans take for granted could soon be in short supply.
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Export controls on advanced chips and AI models hold back innovation and hurt American businesses.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker says Upside Foods has plausibly alleged that the law's protectionism violates the "dormant" Commerce Clause.
A sharp decline in ocean freight from China during April is a sign of the supply chain issues that will begin hitting in May.
Reason interviewed five signatories of the Anti-Tariff Declaration to learn why they oppose tariffs and support free trade.
Only time will tell if America heeds their clarion call.
Trump hopes you like tomato sauce!
If lots of Americans wanted factory jobs, the domestic labor market would look very different.
Predictions vary as to the ultimate cost, but there’s no doubt that tariffs create economic pain.
Daniel Hannan argues that protectionism never works, but that's a lesson that politicians and voters seemingly have to relearn repeatedly.
Protectionism in Egypt and Iraq fueled corruption, stagnation, and smuggling—not prosperity.
Although the president's pride in his negotiation skills could save us, it is hard to see what sort of deal would address his grievance about the consequences of economic freedom.
Eliminating the tariff exemption on low-value Chinese imports is bad news.
Dynamists, protectionists, hawks, and doves are seeing their policy goals realized in the most bungling and incompetent fashion imaginable.
The nonsensical list of territories subject to the White House's new "reciprocal" tariffs shows how amateurish the administration's new trade policy is.
Two months after he was inaugurated, Trump has smashed many of the government's silly DEI rules. But he hasn't created a new age of meritocracy.
The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.
The proposed list of countries for the "Muslim ban" reboot has been leaked. It includes a small Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas.
The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.
The law is wasteful and protectionist. Now, a new lawsuit argues that it is unconstitutional too.
If Trump wants to encourage domestic investment, his antitrust appointees should ditch their Big Tech prejudice.
And it's not about "fairness." Quite the opposite, actually.
Eliminating tariff exemptions will increase import delivery times and make direct-to-consumer goods more expensive.