Tag Archive for Tariffs

Trade Deficit in Goods Worsens to All-Time Worst in 2024, Small Surplus in Services Rises, Overall Trade Deficit Worsens by 17%

by Wolf Richter • Feb 5, 2025 • 133 Comments

Goods deficits & Corporate America: Vietnam jumps to #3 on transshipments from China to dodge tariffs. Tiny Ireland jumps to #4 on trade invoicing to dodge US corporate income taxes.

What Trump’s Tariffs Did Last Time (2018-2019): No Impact on Inflation, Doubled Receipts from Customs Duties, and Hit Stocks

by Wolf Richter • Feb 3, 2025 • 178 Comments

I watched this stuff last time, amazed by the lack of inflation. Sure, “This time it’s different,” but those are the four most costly words on Wall Street.

Some Basics about U.S. Tariffs, and What Trump’s New Economic Team Said about Tariffs

by Wolf Richter • Jan 13, 2025 • 217 Comments

“In the real world, we have a one-sided free-trade policy in which America isn’t nearly as protectionist as other countries.”

Tariff-Front-Running Hits US Manufacturing, after Causing Biggest Surge since 2004

by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2019 • 25 Comments

Supply chains begin to shift back to US suppliers, “due to tariffs.”

Inflation Data Shows Tariffs Are Not a Tax on Consumers but on Foreign & US Corporations

by Wolf Richter • Aug 13, 2019 • 70 Comments

Here is where inflation runs hot – and it’s not imported consumer goods.

World Trade in Face of Tariffmageddon, Trade Wars & Manufacturing Slowdown

by Wolf Richter • Jul 25, 2019 • 70 Comments

Consumers and companies keep plugging, the world has not come to an end.

What I Wrote to the White House about Trade & Tariffs

by Wolf Richter • Sep 23, 2018 • 107 Comments

That Trump is bungling the debate became clear when he was getting bashed like a sitting duck from all sides: Corporate America, China, the EU, other entities that would lose, and their propaganda outlets in the media.