Tariffs

The president suggests a new round of tariffs to conceal the damage of the last.

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The new House Democrats have to figure out how to square opposition to Trump with skepticism about free trade.

The politics of protectionism mean it's here to stay.

Senator's home state of Wisconsin has been hit hard by tariffs.

The Wisconsin Republican and tariff skeptic will meet with the White House trade adviser on Tuesday, while congressional efforts to reclaim trade authority continue to stall.

Plus, why one vet thinks it's time to retire the Blue Angels. (He's wrong.)

A number of Republican lawmakers met with White House economic and trade advisers Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro on Thursday morning, primarily to ask one question: What is their long-term trade plan?

The Pyrrhic logic of trade wars.

House Republicans will have the opportunity to press White House economic and trade advisers Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro on the administration’s handling of tariffs and trade wars during a closed-door meeting on Thursday.

It has nothing to do with his tweets.

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The president’s approach to international policy is venturing outside the very mainstream of American politics.

The New York Times recently ran an article, "How Much Will the Trade War Cost a Typical American Family? Around $60 (So Far)", that shows how broad is the misunderstanding of President Trump’s tariffs. Roughly speaking the article added up the cost assuming everybody keeps buying from China. But…

There are better ways than tariffs to get concessions.

Republicans passed a symbolic measure to call out Trump's tariffs. Some say they wouldn't support it if it actually counted.

We've reached tit-for-tat-for-tit in the president's trade war.

Just before a largely symbolic Senate vote aiming to curtail President Donald Trump’s trade powers on Wednesday, North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis told THE WEEKLY STANDARD he would support the measure—but only because it is non-binding.

Even as Republican leaders in the Senate have become more open to a measure that would roll back some of President Donald Trump’s unilateral trade powers, GOP leadership in the House is sounding increasingly skeptical of the idea.

Jeff Flake’s personal trade war, waged with hopes of imposing congressional oversight over President Donald Trump’s unilateral national security tariffs, could move closer to a resolution this week.

China is targeting agriculture because of farm country's support for the president.

The United States and China moved full steam ahead with a trade war on Friday, leaving a number of American industries about to be caught in the crossfire.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he doesn’t know whether the Senate will take up a bill this week to rein in President Donald Trump’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on national security grounds.

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The retiring Arizona senator wants to force a vote limiting Trump's trade authority, and he's using his leverage over judicial nominations.

Trump knows when to hold ‘em and knows when to fold ‘em, knows when to walk away and knows when to run, as Kenny Rogers advised all poker players. He was holding a losing hand when it came to handling the children brought to America illegally by mothers crossing the border illegally, so he folded…

Are Canada’s dairy tariffs a national security threat to the United States?

Watching the president’s trade messaging shift in real time.

Plus, Dinesh D'Souza's new movie.

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"It's an abuse of that authority."

Trading partners in Mexico and Europe express disappointment, promise tariffs in response.

An "outsider businessman" looks poised to knock off rising-star politicians in Indiana's GOP Senate primary. And it all has to do with Trump.

"I will do such things, what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth."

What has the White House been tellings friendly voices in the media? I explore this in the new issue of the magazine. Here's an excerpt:

Long before John Bolton was named Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, the president often trusted the Fox News contributor over his own national security team. On July 17, when President Trump reversed himself at the last minute on his plan to recertify the Iran deal, it was thanks to an…

When is a steel tariff not a steel tariff? How about when it exempts two-thirds of steel imports?

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, managing editor Christine Rosen and deputy online editor Jim Swift discuss Facebook's apology tour, the coming trade war, and the Trump-Biden boxing match.

Glenn Sherrill’s company buys steel. Tons and tons of steel. So much steel that his grandfather put the word in the company’s name when he started it. In the last 60 years, family-owned SteelFab has grown from a small maker of ornamental handrails in Charlotte, N.C., to a large metal fabricator. It…

This is Peter Navarro’s moment. The gadfly economist, whose idée fixe is America’s capitulation to China on trade, joined the Trump administration on Day One, heading up the National Trade Council, a new office created by the new president. But for the first 13 months, Trump did little to advance…

Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake introduced legislation Monday to nullify President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, calling on his colleagues to rally behind the bill.

President Donald Trump’s decision last week to impose stiff tariffs on steel and aluminum—25 percent and 10 percent, respectively—rivals in sheer unpopularity the president’s early-2017 travel ban. Many of this nation’s chief trading partners lobbied against the tariffs—Canada, South Korea, Japan,…

Moving forward while backing down is no small feat. But the president managed it last week. On live TV.

Could we be on the brink of a thaw in U.S. relations with North Korea? The Trump administration is hoping so in the wake of a shocking message South Korean officials brought from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Thursday: that Kim is “committed to denuclearization,” that the North will refrain…

President Trump signed a controversial order implementing heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminum Thursday, calling the action “a matter of necessity for our security” and saying it would help to revitalize fading American industry.

President Trump’s controversial plan to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum is about to become a reality, as Trump reportedly wants to sign the order establishing the new policy as early as Thursday afternoon.

Another day, another high-profile White House departure. Gary Cohn, President Trump’s chief economic adviser, is leaving the Trump administration—a serious shakeup in a White House where protectionist economics are suddenly on the rise.

President Trump’s recent decision to slap huge new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum is certain to wreak havoc on the American economy. So we argued last week when the decision was announced: Tariffs often make plenty of political sense but penalize domestic industries no less than foreign…

President Trump recently announced he would impose a new across-the-board tariff on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States. That was the harshest of three tariff options outlined by the Department of Commerce in a trade investigation report presented to the president.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD had the chance to talk to South Carolina Republican Mark Sanford about President Donald Trump’s proposed steel and aluminum tariffs, which would tax imports at 25 percent and 10 percent, respectively. Sanford, who has represented the state’s 1st District since 2013, ardently…

Republicans in Congress are desperately trying to talk President Donald Trump down from his proposed tariffs, lest they have to consider a legislative check on the White House instead—a move that some lawmakers say isn’t feasible.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will impose hefty tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

Michael Warren is on vacation this week, and Andrew Egger is filling in for him on White House Watch. Michael will be back in the saddle on March 12.

Michael Warren is on vacation this week, and Andrew Egger is filling in for him on White House Watch. Michael will be back in the saddle on March 12.

Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, first learned of the sudden announcement of far-reaching tariffs by President Donald Trump on Thursday during an informal hallway conversation with reporters.

To ask coherence of President Trump is to ask too much of a man with the attention span of a tweet, and for whom cognitive dissonance is not something he spends nights losing sleep over. So we have had large tax cuts, putting money into the pockets of consumers, which will enable them to increase…

On January 22, President Trump announced the imposition of a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panels and a 20 percent tariff on imported washing machines. The Trade Act of 1974 allows the president to impose duties when an imported product becomes “substantial cause of serious injury” to the…

On Tuesday, January 22, President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panels and a 20 percent tariffs on washing machines. Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 allows the president to issue duties when an imported product becomes “substantial cause of…

While U.S. politics have witnessed any number of distressing trends in recent years, one of the more disturbing is the decline in support among Republicans for free trade. The rise of Donald Trump, who regularly blamed American economic ills on China and trade deals such as the North American Free…

When President Trump talks tough on trade to one or several of our “partners,” he is being rude and wrecking the world trading system—in the words of the New York Times, adopting a “starkly unilateralist approach.” Yet when he politely raises America’s problems with that system in private, praises…

Just when it looked as if the professionals in the Trump administration had taken over administration of trade policy, leaving the president to handle the rhetoric, someone in the Trump camp recalled that some 70 years ago—in 1947—23 nations signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),…

In April, the American solar manufacturer Suniva filed a petition under Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974, asking the U.S. International Trade Commission for new tariffs on solar cells and the establishment of a minimum price for solar modules imported into the United States. Last month, the…

There is something dispiriting about the debate over trade policy, and the problem does not lie with Donald Trump, or his tweets, or his on-again, off-again threats to various trading partners, or his fickle choice of partners to head the negotiating queue: EU to the front, Brexiting Britain to the…

Shortly after noon on January 20, America's newly installed president issued a declaration of war against global free trade. "We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great…

Shortly after noon on January 20, America's newly installed president issued a declaration of war against global free trade. "We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great…

"I'm going to be your champion," Donald Trump declared after he won the California primary last week. "I'm going to be America's champion. Because, you see, this election isn't about Republican or Democrat. It's about who runs this country, the special interests or the people—and I mean the…