Financial markets are increasingly worried the US economy is heading for a crash. An economist explains what's got investors spooked.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Tariffs
Displaying 1 - 20 of 74 articles
We may be on the cusp of a full-blow trade war that could reconfigure globalisation.
Boasting the world's biggest and strongest economy, the U.S. has enormous leverage when it sits down with a partner to negotiate a trade deal. Threats and tariffs are not really helping.
Millions of American flags come from China. Yet despite being symbols of patriotism, they're not among the products subject to new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
The USMCA, while imperfect, is overall a positive development for Canada. It has a number of structural elements that may very well leave us stronger when negotiating trade pacts in the future.
Who are the winners and losers in the new USMCA? It's complicated, but one thing's for certain: Canada should never again allow itself to be overly dependent upon one trading partner.
The relief that the U.S. didn’t make things even worse for Canada in the new NAFTA should be tempered by the realization that the moment of reckoning hasn’t passed; it’s only been postponed.
Brexiters are arguing for Theresa May to abandon her Chequers deal and push for a Canada-style trade agreement with the EU.
The US and China once again exchanged fire in their escalating trade war. Tariffs have been the main source of ammunition thus far, but China has other weapons it could begin to deploy.
The economic theory of comparative cost advantage is more akin to natural law -- it can’t be wished away. And during the ongoing trade war ignited by Donald Trump, it has never been more relevant.
The president says he's fighting his trade war because a generation of free trade has failed working-class Americans. An economist explains why tariffs will only make things worse.
The Trump administration's promise of $12 billion in aid to offset losses from retaliatory tariffs will not make up for the long-term consequences of a prolonged trade war.
Canada recently slapped a tariff on US exports of the tomato-based condiment, and the EU plans to do the same, perhaps on the notion that it's distinctly American. In fact, ketchup’s origins are global, as are its fans.
Chinese investment in the US has never been high, but the ongoing trade war could dampen it further, with significant long-term repercussions.
Trump has started a trade war with China and much of the world. Here's what you need to know.
While the US gets protectionist, China is working to establish itself as a leader in global trade rules.
The president launched a trade war largely on the premise of a massive trade deficit with China. A closer look at the iPhone shows why he's wrong.
The motorcycle maker angered Trump after it said it plans to move some production overseas to avoid EU tariffs – just a few months after the president praised the company for being a 'true American icon.'
Donald Trump's obsession with trade deficits, and his subsequent wielding of the tariff big guns, is the absolute wrong approach for the U.S. economy.
If the US were to stop dumping these valuable metals in landfills and to cease exporting them as cheap scrap, its imports could fall, and there would be less of these metals being made from scratch.
Top contributors
-
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal is a Friend of The Conversation.Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology
-
Associate Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
-
Lecturer in History, University of Exeter
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
-
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
-
Director, Trans African Consulting Group, and Senior Research Fellow University of Johannsesburg, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
-
Professor of Economics, Colorado State University
-
Associate Professor of Economics, Colorado State University
-
Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics, Monash University
-
Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Birmingham
-
Research economist, University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Economics, RMIT University
