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The Truth About Tariffs


What Are Tariffs? | Council on Foreign Relations

U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden have both turned to tariffs to support local industries amid economic confrontation with China. Here's how these taxes work ...

What populists don't understand about tariffs (but economists do) | PIIE

Oren Cass's shallow and selective defense of Donald Trump's trade policy proposals in The Atlantic misrepresents what economists know about ...

Trump favors huge new tariffs. How do they work? | PBS News

Former President Donald Trump has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China and a 20% tariff on everything else the United States imports.

Trump's Most Misunderstood Policy Proposal - The Atlantic

“Trump Is Proposing a 10% Tariff. Economists Say That Amounts to a $1,700 Tax on Americans,” a representative CBS News headline declared in June ...

Separating Tariff Facts from Tariff Fictions - Cato Institute

Tariffs are costly taxes, and economists consider them to be poor tools for boosting the economy, reducing the trade deficit, or achieving strategic objectives.

The Truth About Tariffs | Weekly Economic Commentary

Research has established that higher tariffs are associated with higher levels of inflation in countries that apply them.

Tariffs Are Great – If You Like Raising Prices, Undermining Jobs ...

Americans — and especially the middle class — are at risk of economic consequences of a protectionist trade policy. The U.S. should look to history for a ...

Tariff Tracker: Tracking the Economic Impact of the Trump-Biden Tariffs

Source: Tax Foundation General Equilibrium Model, June 2024. Key Finding. The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of ...

What Are Tariffs and How Do They Affect You? - Investopedia

As a protectionist tool, a tariff increases the prices of imports. Due to that, consumers would choose to buy relatively less expensive domestic goods instead.

Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work

Former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance continue to falsely describe how one of their major ...

Hiltzik: Here's the truth about tariffs - Los Angeles Times

Trump and Vance claim that tariffs are paid by foreign companies and that economists are divided on the topic. They're wrong on both counts.

Would Donald Trump's tariffs hurt US consumers? - BBC

Trump claims more taxes on trade wouldn't be a cost to the US - almost all economists dispute this.

Raising revenue vs. protecting industry: A deep dive into America's ...

Former President Trump wants to build a tariff wall: 60% tariff on goods from China, 20% on imports from everywhere else in the world.

The truth about tariffs and when they're actually useful - YouTube

There's been a lot of talk about tariffs lately, but some of it can be misleading. “Our trade policy is working in tandem with our other ...

Picture This: The Truth About Industrial Country Tariffs

What's wrong with tariff structures? Although most tariffs in industrial countries are low, those on several categories of goods remain prohibitively high.

Trump's tariffs: How they work, and who would pay - Axios

A tariff is a form of tax on on imported goods, designed to protect domestic companies from foreign competition by making those imported goods ...

Donald Trump's Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses

Maurice Obstfeld shows why targeting an overall reduction in imports would reduce America's real wages and national income.

What are tariffs, and why are they rising? - Brookings Institution

Tariffs are taxes that countries impose on imported goods when they cross the border. From the founding of the United States until 1914, when the federal ...

3 charts that help explain how Trump's tariffs would work | CNN Politics

If former President Donald Trump returns to the White House, tariffs will once again play a major role in his policy agenda.

The Truth About Tariffs - Washington International Trade Association

President Donald Trump broke with this economic orthodoxy and imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of imported goods from ...