You’ve surely read that tariffs would just tax regular Americans. You may not have read how they’d work to make the rich ...

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of the idea that protective tariffs can restore America's economic greatness, ...

Reimagining tariffs as a panacea for economic woes is not only historically inaccurate but economically unsound.

Markets react to tariffs. Three examples show the historical folly, David Breuhan writes in a guest commentary.

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

IRWIN: I divide it up into three parts. Before the Civil War, tariffs were very important as a revenue-raising device for the government. It was the main tax that the federal government levied to ...

With the U.S. presidential election mere weeks away, tariffs have become a frequent topic of discussion and, unfortunately, an even-more-frequent source of misinformation. (See, for example ...

Trump has said in the past that tariff revenue would help to offset the budget deficit, or maybe replace the income tax entirely. More recently, he has said tariff revenue would instead go into a ...

Tariffs are a customs duty paid by American importers. The Treasury Department reports revenue from customs duties the same as it reports revenue from income and corporate taxes. The government ...

"Every dollar of tariff revenue is going to come about through higher prices on Americans," Wolfers said. "It would be the sharpest inflation shock in quite some time." Some economists and ...