The entire premise of the administration’s approach—that a country’s tariff and non-tariff trade barriers can be derived solely from the bilateral trade balance with that country, and that ...

Scott Kennedy and Ryan Featherston discuss recent U.S. tariffs and how the problem with the Trump administration’s approach is not which formula they use, but their general allergy to bilateral trade ...

President Donald Trump's new tariffs vary greatly between countries. The Office of the US Trade Representative explained the pretty simple formula used. The math puts a heavy emphasis on trade ...

Behind Trump’s new tariffs is a goal that is as ambitious as it is unrealistic: eliminating the bilateral trade deficit with every U.S. trading partner.