Tariff advocates perpetuate the myth that the state can solve economic problems by imposing artificial barriers.

Specific tariff rates are a protective tariff applied to a particular quantity of an imported good. For example, a country might impose a specific tariff of $5 on every pair of shoes imported from ...

Still, protective tariffs aren’t an obvious political winner ... degrade the famous “blue wall” of Midwestern states, for example, wasn’t based entirely on his tariff proposals.

President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs in his second term defies many historical norms, say economists and historians.

With the Trump administration announcing plans to impose 25% tariffs on pharmaceuticals, it reignites a critical discussion ...

"A protective tariff increases the price of imported goods ... businesses and consumers in the form of increased prices. For example, if the U.S. government wants to protect American car ...

When the government deemed trade practices unfair, it turned to tariffs as a protective measure. For example, in 2009, President Barack Obama slapped China with tariffs to protect the U.S ...

The Tariff Act of 1930, popularly known as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, levied protective tariffs on about ... as a reciprocal bargaining chip. For example, before the U.S. annexed Hawaii, it signed ...