American consumers have been facing the reality of President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again import tariffs. Threatened since his 2024 campaign and started in earnest earlier in the year, the president laid out a much broader import tax plan on April 2.

After trying to play hardball with China, Donald Trump decided that he no longer intends to “play hardball” with China.

President Donald Trump can't stop contradicting himself on his own tariff plans. He says he's on a path to cut several new trade deals in a few weeks — but has also suggested it's “physically impossible" to hold all the needed meetings.

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warns that President Trump’s unpredictable and often reversed tariff policies are creating deep uncertainty, discouraging business investment and thus increasing the risk of recession.

President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs have roiled financial markets, prompted an outcry from world leaders and raised the specter of a US recession. The blowback eventually prompted Trump to pause some of the most punishing tariffs for 90 days.