For example, sectors like steel, agriculture or textiles are often protected to maintain domestic production capacity. Protective tariffs can be part of broader economic strategies, including ...

President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs in his second term defies many historical norms, say economists and historians.

Specific tariff rates are a protective tariff applied to a particular quantity of an imported good. For example, a country might impose a specific tariff of $5 on every pair of shoes imported from ...

The first of the four lectures to be delivered on Protective Tariffs by Prof. Robt. E. Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania was very fully attended. The lecture was a statement of certain ...

For example, President Trump imposed a 25% tariff on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada (10% for Canadian oil), the US ...

Soon after the first major protective tariff was enacted on a range of products (from pig iron to rope to woolen goods), a logroll formed that joined the Northeast and Midwest against the South.

Trump has also threatened to introduce tariffs - a tax on imports - on goods from Canada and Mexico, but paused these for 30 ...

President Donald Trump's use of tariffs in his second term defies many historical norms, say economists and historians.

These tariffs are calculated as a percentage of the value of imported goods, which makes them adaptable to price fluctuations. Here are some typical examples of ad valorem tariffs: Agricultural ...