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President Trump signed a proclamation on July 9, 2026, formally concurring with a Commerce Department finding under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 that imports of commercial aircraft, jet engines and...
On July 1, 2026 — the deadline for the six-year joint review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — the Trump administration declined to formally renew the pact for a new 16-year term. President Trump had said in...
Trump threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on Canada if it proceeded with a major trade arrangement involving China. The threat used the prospect of blocking market access as leverage against a close trading partner...
In September 2025, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told NBC's Meet the Press that tariffs imposed under the Trump administration are not a tax on Americans, arguing instead that the tariff-driven economy had produced...
Trump announced a universal 10 percent tariff along with substantially higher country-specific tariff rates, calculated largely from countries' bilateral trade deficits with the United States rather than from those...