"It’s not always the best idea to take somebody fresh out of jail and put them in charge of your trade policy" ...

But at the heart of the decision-making is Trump himself — who has agitated for tough tariffs for more than 40 years.

U.S. markets plunged in the wake of President Trump's announcement of new tariffs. Many stocks had their worst single day ...

The president believes it’s necessary to destroy the village in order to save it. Because it worked so well in Vietnam!

There are reasons to question whether President Donald Trump fully grasps the consequences of the tariff barrage that he used ...

Former Vice President Mike Pence says Trump's tariff plans are the "largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history." ...

At a ceremony on the afternoon of April 2, Mr Trump revealed countries’ tariff rates by hoisting a placard in the Rose Garden ...

Nearly $57bn was wiped off the Australian sharemarket on Friday after Donald Trump’s tariff blitz sparked a massive sell-off ...

Donald Trump is pretending the sharemarket carnage is all part of his grand plan to use tariffs to reboot the US economy.

While the White House’s top economic advisers have continued to insist that the administration’s massive new set of tariffs ...

For a policy Trump championed for months on the campaign trail and vowed to implement quickly as the centerpiece of his ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday contradicted his top aides on the purpose of his sprawling new global tariff regime, ...