President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order imposing tariffs on imported goods from across the world during a press conference at the White House's Rose Garden on Wednesday. The formula ...

The White House’s new tariffs were pegged to amounts it said other countries impose on the U.S. In many cases, those amounts appear to match a basic formula: the size of a country's goods-trade ...

President Donald Trump introduced his “discounted reciprocal tariffs” on over 200 countries on April 2. Most countries receive a base tariff rate of 10%, but for countries receiving more, the rates ...

President Trump's new tariffs on more than 100 countries used the same simple formula to calculate the rate for each of them. The formula’s central value is the trade deficit, the difference between ...

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One economist called the calculations "extraordinary nonsense." When President Donald Trump announced his controversial tariffs on virtually every trading partner in the world, he repeatedly called ...

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) economists have revealed a massive mathematical flaw in the Trump administration's formula for imposing reciprocal tariffs ...