During Friday’s “Overtime” segment of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that he does believe tariffs are ultimately paid by Americans but also argued that this means tariffs put on by President Joe Biden are a bad idea. Former
President Joe Biden’s United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai announced increased U.S. tariffs on China, initially imposed by former President Donald Trump. The tariff increases come even as Vice President Kamala Harris attacks the use of tariffs on the presidential campaign trail.
The Biden White House responded on Friday to a plea from House Democrats by proposing new rules for foreign shipping to close the notorious “de minimis” loophole, but took no immediate action.
Donald Trump said U.S. tariffs on imports did not cause the record inflation that has occurred under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Consumer prices barely rose during Donald Trump’s presidency, even after the president imposed tariffs.
Harris falsely described Trump’s tariffs as a sales tax.
Donald Trump will have a powerful tool at his disposal in his debate with Kamala Harris this week: the lamp of experience.
Beijing’s three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded on Friday with more pledges of funding for Africa, even though China’s sputtering economy may be hard-pressed to meet those commitments.
Germany-based Volkswagen is considering closing plants in its home country as automakers in the European Union (EU) grapple with a flood of cheap China-made cars that are increasingly making up a share of auto sales in the continent.
A growing trade deficit usually means the budget deficit will grow also as government payments are needed to fill the hole in the economy created by unbalanced imports.
There’s an electorally powerful coalition for American first economic policies from border security and deportation, to tariffs and trade, to energy abundance and independence.
Vice President Kamala Harris attacked the idea of placing United States tariffs on foreign imports to favor domestic producers during her speech at the Democrat National Convention (DNC).
Tariffs tend to be paid for by exporters and importers, not consumers.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in Beijing on Saturday for a five-day visit intended to “relaunch” relations between Italy and China.
The resurgence of claims that Donald Trump’s proposal for a 10 percent across-the-board tariff amounts to a tax on the American middle class calls for a deeper dive into why these assertions miss the mark.
The Biden administration is finally cracking down on Mexican imports that use steel or aluminum from China by imposing tariffs.
Trump has a chance to defend his title of “Tariff Man” in tonight’s debate. We’re hoping he takes it.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein stated that the tariffs on China that President Joe Biden announced are different from the approach of 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President
It behooves us at the Breitbart Business Digest to again explain that Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs are not necessarily inflationary, and the people telling you that they are are partisan hacks with no credibility on the matter.
Former President Donald Trump is floating a policy that would put United States tariffs on foreign countries that refuse to take back their nationals who are illegally in the U.S. and have been ordered deported.
Peter Navarro, the former top economic Trump aide who is currently in federal prison for standing up against subpoenas from the January 6 committee, is speaking out from behind bars in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
United States tariffs on China-made imports have helped rescue America’s left-behind textile industry from devastation after decades of free trade that came with mass layoffs of the nation’s textile workers.
During an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) stated that the China tariffs announced by President Joe Biden will raise prices and harm the deployment of solar energy because “we need” Chinese
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose EV company is deeply involved in Communist China, recently expressed his disapproval of the recently announced 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles during the VivaTech conference this week.
Turkey has entered “advanced negotiations” with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giants BYD and Chery to establish factories in Turkey.
As President Joe Biden announces new United States tariffs on several Chinese products, including Electric Vehicles (EVs), China-based corporations may evade those tariffs by rerouting production through other countries.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) responded to President Joe Biden’s prior criticism of the Trump China tariffs by stating that China doesn’t follow market rules and saying that “I’m sure I probably took a
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday dismissed tariffs that the Biden administration threatened as a “farce.”
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” U.S. Trade Representative Amb. Katherine Tai responded to concerns that the Biden administration’s China tariff regime, which includes keeping tariffs from the Trump administration, will be inflationary by stating that
On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen predicted that President Joe Biden’s tariffs won’t cause any meaningful price increases for typical families and responded to a question on her criticism of the Trump tariffs as “taxes on consumers” by
During an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday, U.S. Trade Representative Amb. Katherine Tai stated that the Biden administration announcing new tariffs on China and keeping the ones put in by the Trump administration doesn’t show Trump had the right approach
The Trump campaign slammed President Joe Biden’s announcement on Tuesday that he was raising tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, calling it a “weak and futile attempt to distract” from the harm his electric vehicle mandate is doing to the U.S. auto industry.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) premier automaker, BYD, is selling a $12,000 Electric Vehicle (EV) that “could be a nightmare” for the United States auto industry without an all-out ban or steeper tariffs on such cars made by Chinese companies.
An American PPE manufacturer told Breitbart News that the Biden administration’s tariffs on Chinese-made PPE are too little, too late.
Biden’s late-in-the-game embrace of tariffs is widely seen as an election year pivot to win support in battleground states.
Portfolio manager Steve Eiseman expects Donald Trump will raise tariffs on China but called claims that this would cause inflation “ridiculous.”
Hundreds of West Virginia workers have been thrown back into job hunting in a labor market with slashed wages as a plant in Weirton closed last week. The plant closure comes as the federal government refused to impose tariffs on cheap imported tin.
Senators are calling on President Joe Biden to hike United States tariffs on imported aluminum to save American jobs.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday afternoon for meetings with senior officials, receiving no significant honors upon his landing and preceded by loud warnings from the Foreign Ministry to avoid challenging the Communist Party on its belligerent policies.
Peter Schweizer, the author of Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, dismissed President Joe Biden’s plan to call for raising tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum during a campaign speech to American steelworkers in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
