Ana Swanson

The president on Wednesday will announce sweeping tariffs that he says will restore fairness to the global trading system.

Two dozen trade experts gathered recently to simulate how a global trade war would play out. The results were surprisingly optimistic.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative released a report highlighting foreign trade barriers that could influence tariffs the president puts into effect this…

A White House trade adviser projected that tariffs would raise about $6 trillion over the next decade. But raising so much revenue for the government…

With sweeping auto levies, the president is putting his beliefs about tariffs into practice on the global economy. Economists aren’t optimistic.

The additions included companies that are customers of Intel and Nvidia, and one firm that was the focus of a New York Times investigation last…

Makers of a vast array of American products are weighing the risks, and potential payoffs, of the sweeping tariffs the president has promised on April…

Trade wars with allies could spiral as the president tries to get trading partners to back down from retaliation with new threats of his own.

His administration has acknowledged that exceptions undercut the power of tariffs, but it seems hard for the president to resist making deals.

Goods trading under the rules of the North American trade pact, or most products, would be exempt from tariffs, the president said. The levies have…