Popular products from Britain and the European Union show how uneven and unpredictable U.S. tariffs have become, even when part of trade deals.
Popular products from Britain and the European Union show how uneven and unpredictable U.S. tariffs have become, even when part of trade deals.
Economic officials meeting in Madrid will seek to head off a November tariff deadline.
Last week’s immigration operation at a battery plant highlighted a tactic that companies use to bring in foreign workers to establish new operations.
For the president, the power to issue limitless tariffs is at the heart of his second-term vision, from trade to foreign policy.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been putting the squeeze on companies and trading partners in an unusual effort to raise revenue and expand the president’s role over the economy.
As pandemic subsidies disappeared, wages kept workers just ahead of inflation, although gaps have widened for some groups.
After a bad employment report in August, President Trump fired the official in charge of the numbers. This month’s data was just as disappointing.
An influx of immigrants helped ease worker shortages, and now their expulsion is helping to mask the country’s weakening demand for labor.
Trade rebounded slightly after President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs discouraged foreign countries from doing business with the United States, data released Thursday showed.
The president and his advisers have suggested they will fight a federal appeals court’s ruling that found many of the administration’s tariffs to be illegal.