Tariffs typically come in the form of taxes or duties levied on importers, and they're eventually passed on to consumers. They're commonly used in international trade as a protectionist measure.

Although tariffs are a bane to most economists, they are a widely used as a tool for regulating international trade and for shielding domestic industries from foreign competition. At the simplest ...

The president said his advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other ...

Here’s how current events are mirroring a key point in U.S. history that led to a trade war and exacerbated the Great ...