Tariffs are among the defining policies of President Donald Trump’s second term. CNN is tracking their impact on the US ...
The Yale Budget Lab revised its estimate of the overall effective tariff rate to 18.3%, the highest level since 1934, while Fitch Ratings puts the effective tariff rate at 17%. The estimates reflect ...
Tariffs aren’t just bad for business and consumers: They will also increase the number of Americans living in poverty, according to new research. An analysis out this week from the Budget Lab at Yale ...
Fitch Ratings estimated that the overall U.S. effective tariff rate ("ETR") is 16%, down from its estimate of 17% at the beginning of the month, reflecting a marked increase in imports from Canada and ...
On July 31, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order establishing revised IEEPA “reciprocal” tariff rates for imports into the U.S. from specific countries. The new rates come after the ...
Despite President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator saying “tariff rates are pretty much set,” some experts say trade policy remains highly unsettled. “The only certainty is uncertainty,” said Tad ...
To read this article with full citations, please visit taxnotes.com. Politicians talk a lot about tariffs, and much of what they say boils down to a simple question: Who pays? President Trump has ...
A threatened tariff that is never implemented does not hurt the economy as much as a threatened tariff that is actually implemented. That simple point seems to have eluded Matthew Lynn, a financial ...