But at the heart of the decision-making is Trump himself — who has agitated for tough tariffs for more than 40 years.

The Trump administration's roll-out of sweeping global tariffs tariffs has prompted urgent questions about how the new taxes were calculated, how long they will last and what exactly the White House hopes to achieve with them.

Confusion reigned even among some White House officials about what rate the approximately $440 billion in Chinese imports would face.

In his Rose Garden announcement of sweeping new "reciprocal tariffs," President Donald Trump held aloft a misleading chart that claimed to give a breakdown of the tariffs other countries charge the U.

President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariff regime reverses a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers, will likely raise prices for U.S. consumers, and threatens to sharply slow the economy this year.

President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a new 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are uninhabited by humans and best known for their penguin population

Former Vice President Mike Pence says Trump's tariff plans are the "largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history."

President Donald Trump announced his highly anticipated trade plan from the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday, which he has declared "Liberation Day."