Trade Policy

The CBO and the Federal Reserve have both updated their assessments of the tariff strategy's effect on domestic production. The updates contain findings the critics of the strategy did not anticipate.

Tariffs are paid by American importing companies and passed to consumers as higher prices. The Tax Foundation estimated Trump's 2018 tariffs cost the average U.S. household $800 to $1,200 per year, a regressive tax hitting working families hardest.

A multistate coalition of attorneys general filed suit to block President Trump's latest round of import taxes. The case might win on the constitutional merits, but it won't help the small business owner trying to make payroll this Friday.

A coalition of Democratic AGs running to federal court over tariffs isn't constitutional stewardship, it's political theater dressed in legal briefs.

Every time a politician brags about tariffs hitting foreign countries, your grocery receipt tells a different story. The math has never changed.

U.S. Customs is in court explaining how it plans to refund tariffs a federal judge says were illegally collected. The real question is whether courts can rein in executive trade power at all.

The tariff debate has been dishonest from the start. A tax on imports is a tax on Americans, and the people hurt worst are the ones with the least margin for error.