Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...

In that region, it was termed the “Tariff of Abominations” and directly led ... These are but a few examples from American history of protectionist tariffs’ effects on the U.S. national ...

From 1861 to 1890s, high tariffs dominated as the source of federal government revenue under Republican-led protectionism ...

Tariffs might be Donald Trump’s favorite political tool — one that he envisions as a catch-all solution to U.S. problems. Recently, Trump bragged about how his threat to impose a 25% tariff on ...