The president’s aides insist the fallout will be short and ultimately result in a better economy, as economists warn of higher inflation and slower growth.

Continued worries about the disruption of President Trump’s trade policies and retaliation by major trading partners, overshadowed an unexpectedly strong report on the U.S. labor market.

The Chinese government said it would match President Trump’s tariff, and also barred a group of American companies from doing business in China.

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The president says “jobs and factories will come roaring back” because of his trade policies, but the economic story of the American 21st century has also been shaped by the deliberate pursuit of freer trade.

The U.S. tariffs on transshipment countries like Vietnam and Cambodia are so steep that they could force a major reassessment of global supply chains.

President Trump says the tariffs will encourage investment in U.S. factories, but analysts say car buyers will have to pay thousands more.

An executive order from President Trump will require government agencies to make electronic payments for tax refunds, Social Security and other benefits as of Sept. 30.

A rapidly escalating trade war has socked stocks as investors weigh the fallout from President Trump’s tariff barrage.

The European Union is deepening other trade partnerships as U.S. relations sour. But with China, the relationship could get closer — or more combative.

Fears that President Trump’s tariffs could slash global economic growth — and demand for oil — were weighing on the market.

The boom in American sit-down chains has come and gone. What replaced them isn’t so great for human connection.

Venezuela owes China’s banks about $10 billion, and its oil is about the only legal way it has to pay them back.

President Trump wants to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States. Experts warn that tariffs could result in shortages and higher prices for generic drugs.

A nonprofit group said the president misapplied a law in imposing those levies and portrayed its filing as the first lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration over its tariffs.

Higher prices could also be coming soon for seafood, sugar and coffee. But it may be a while before importers and retailers can gauge the effects of the new fees.

Convicted of fraud and facing the possibility of decades in prison, Charlie Javice was concerned about how a monitoring device would affect her job.

He founded The Texas Tribune, a model for nonprofit grass-roots news organizations nationwide, and the American Journalism Project, which supports them.

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European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.

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Saudi Arabia and other members of the OPEC Plus group accelerated their program to put more oil on the market, adding to a sharp fall in prices.

The company’s move is one of the first and clearest examples of automakers using price increases to deal with the 25 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on car and auto parts imports.

The video app is barreling toward a Saturday deadline to change its ownership under federal law or face a ban in the United States.

Mark Carney, a former central banker, also called on “like-minded countries” to form a new trading order without the United States.

Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.

The loophole has allowed retailers to send goods from China directly to U.S. shoppers without paying tariffs. Closing it could raise consumer prices.

The U.S. economy has largely withstood inflation and high interest rates. But tariffs could bring new price increases and put a damper on hiring.

Economists and legal experts question how the strongest economy in the world can be facing a national emergency over the trade deficit.

Many sportswear brands shifted production away from China to avoid tariffs imposed years ago, but now they face punishing levies targeting alternative manufacturing hubs.

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The department, during the Biden administration, initially said it had concerns about the merger of two of the largest credit card companies in the U.S.

Some of the more sparsely populated territories in the world that do little trade with the United States have been caught up in the trade war.

The industry supplies low-cost clothing to the United States, and is a crucial part of the Asian countries’ economies.

The United States has steered an economic order for 80 years based on trade and trust, making the country the world’s financial superpower. That vision is now blurred.

The company said it would offer customers the same prices it offers its employees on most of its vehicles.

The company counts on the sale of devices for three-quarters of its nearly $400 billion in annual revenue, and it makes almost all of its iPhones, iPads and Macs overseas.

She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement.

As he announced sweeping tariffs, President Trump claimed there had been a large decline in the price of eggs. That’s not the whole picture.

The combination of lower oil prices and higher costs for essential materials like steel pipe threatens to squeeze domestic oil and gas producers.

European leaders have said they would prefer to negotiate. If that fails, their response could go beyond anything they’ve tried before.

The chip companies in Taiwan, the center of the global supply chain, are expected to face pressure from Washington to invest more in the U.S.

Punishing tariffs on Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and others in the region threaten their position as major manufacturing hubs for the American market.

China vowed countermeasures and the E.U. promised a unified response, while Britain and Japan refrained from immediate retaliation.

Global markets were in a tailspin on Thursday as policymakers and trade partners expressed dismay over president’s latest trade-war salvo.

The Trump administration says sanctions imposed on Moscow mean the U.S. does little trade with Russia, but questions persist about the motivations.

President Trump’s trade war adds another challenge to the incoming government’s attempts to revive Europe’s biggest economy.

Not even America’s closest trading partners were spared by a policy broadside that spooked investors and left policymakers scrambling to formulate responses.

If airlines must refund airfare up to 24 hours after purchase, why not hotels? A traveler finds that even two minutes is too late to cancel a botched reservation at a ski resort.

Japan has refrained from talk of striking back at U.S. tariffs. Trade experts say that is because its inflation-strained economy limits its options.

The 34 percent tariff announced on Wednesday is in addition to two rounds of import taxes the president already imposed since January.

The answer appears to begin with the total trade deficit America runs with its trading partners.

Critics warned that the levies could fuel inflation and slow economic growth, while those who supported the move said it was long overdue.

President Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs that included actions on dozens of countries at very high levels.

The S&P 500 fell almost 5 percent on Thursday, its worst drop since June 2020, as President Trump’s higher-than-expected tariffs set off another round of economic worry.

He wrote from Europe and Asia, served as a book critic and produced a raft of books, on subjects ranging from the French condition to multiculturalism.