Trump can wage this war because he has the world’s largest weapon: the U.S. economy. When a consumer of our size changes its buying patterns, it can have a devastating effect on others. Canada and ...

It started with tariffs, but the trade war is quickly escalating beyond import taxes into a broader tit-for-tat battle.

The trade fight widened yesterday as the E.U. and Canada announced billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports ...

Long-threatened tariffs from President Trump have plunged the country into a trade war abroad — all while on-again, off-again ...

The United States relies heavily on other countries, particularly China, for essential metals used in technology, and this ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more so ...

Europe, not Canada, Mexico or China, is most vulnerable to the fallout from Donald Trump’s mercantilist policies.

If tariffs evolve from a negotiating tactic to a new normal, economic and diplomatic costs to all of North America will grow.

PHILIPPINE economic growth could return to target this year, an economist said, but a global trade war — its scope and magnitude in particular — arising from US protectionism could have significant ...