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Despite a White House spokesman claiming otherwise, the published formula matched what social media users calculated.
President Donald Trump imposed a slew of tariffs ranging from 10 to 49% on trading partners. Here's what to know, who pays ...
The April 2  “Liberation Day” announcement of new sweeping tariffs makes it crystal clear that the president means business.
In his Rose Garden announcement of sweeping new "reciprocal tariffs," President Donald Trump held aloft a misleading chart ...
US tariffs explained: what they are, how they work and who they affect - President Trump’s tariff plan, which included a 10% charge on imports from the UK, has shaken the world’s financial markets ...
In a dramatic move Wednesday, Trump authorized a 90-day pause in the higher tariffs for most countries he announced last week ...
The Trump administration's tariff calculations appear on paper to be a simplified math of America's trade relationships.
This, he explained, consistently produced the reciprocal tariff percentages revealed by the White House across the board. "What extraordinary nonsense this is," Surowiecki wrote about the finding.
Top economist Shankar Singham has provided a detailed analysis of Donald Trump's controversial tariff strategy, dividing it ...
The formula used was: (Trade Deficit / Exports to the U.S.) × 100 = The “tariff” rates claimed by the Trump administration. So, 9.64/9.9 = 0.97. Multiply this by 100 to arrive at a percentage, and we ...
Durlauf: Part of the argument for tariffs is that they are good for U.S. jobs, with the employment effect being worth the ...
The US Trade Representative released a statement explaining its methodology for calculating the tariffs. Read more at ...