Trump has used the tariffs as a negotiating tool and a way to protect US industry, and has repeatedly railed against the country’s trade deficit. Donald Trump has unveiled an overhaul of the US’s ...

In a broadside directed at both US allies and adversaries, Trump directed his top trade advisers to come up with new tariffs on a “country-by-country” basis in retaliation against levies, regulations ...

To distract from his larger plan to gut the federal government, the President has taken a relatively powerless program and turned it into an excuse for everything that goes wrong in the country.

In March 2018, Trump introduced tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium against most countries, using ...