Trade organizations such as the WTO and preferential trade agreements allow governments to commit to a set of rules. In a sense, they tie their policymaking hands, reducing policy uncertainty and ...

President Donald Trump gave an address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. He claimed his policies were having a ...

President Donald Trump’s ever-changing, on-again, off-again tariff war with America’s three biggest trading partners – Mexico ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose punishing tariffs on the U.S.’s biggest trading partners is clouding the economic outlook as businesses consider pausing future hiring and investment.

Mr. Trump’s top economic aides tried to explain the decision on Tuesday. Mr. Lutnick said on CNBC that the tariffs were “not a trade war,” calling the conflict a “drug war” instead.