WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has once again turned to tariffs to try to get his way with a U.S. trading partner. This time, the target is Mexico: Trump plans to impose 5% tariffs on Mexican ...
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How do tariffs work?

Tariffs are taxes a government puts on goods and services that come from other countries. You can think of a tariff as an extra fee added at the border, which makes imported products more expensive.
Millions of Americans braced for runaway inflation in response to President Donald Trump's aggressive import tariffs. They're still waiting.
“It does not take into account the fact that domestic producers will likely raise their prices if a US global tariff takes effect, and it does not take into account other costs to American wage ...
Re “Consumers should brace for price increases as retailers pass tariff costs along” (Nov. 10): President Trump recently posted about “the massive amounts of money being made by the United States of ...
Are the bulk of President Donald Trump’s tariffs unlawful? That question, now before the US Supreme Court, has spawned a hot new trade on Wall Street. Financial firms are buying the rights to refunds ...
Sometimes there are real calculations behind its tariff rates. But those calculations don’t make sense to economists. How is the administration coming up with tariff percentages on goods? Is there a ...
A study by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco researchers suggest that inflation initially declines when tariffs are implemented, as demand falls, but then rise in the longer term as economic ...
“Ten percent!” “Eighteen percent!” “Thirty-nine percent!” President Trump spells out his trade policy like an auctioneer, leading many in the media to focus on his broad reciprocal tariff rates when ...