President Donald Trump is once again ratcheting up trade barriers with one of America’s largest trading partners. On Thursday, the president announced a 35 percent tariff on all Canadian goods not covered by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to take effect on August 1, unless a trade deal is reached before then. A White House […]
Brazilian flag. (NA)  Earlier today, President Donald Trump announced he intends to impose 50% tariffs on imports from Brazil, citing that country’s prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, for the latter’s attempt to stage a coup to keep himself in power after losing an election. Bolsonaro is a political ally of Trump’s. The incident highlights […]
Newly announced tariffs on imported copper might be the Trump administration’s most foolish trade policy yet. It is a move that will force American industries to pay significantly higher prices for a metal that is essential for everything from tech manufacturing to homebuilding. “Copper is necessary for Semiconductors, Aircraft, Ships, Ammunition, Data Centers, Lithium-ion Batteries, […]
Trump comes to Bolsonaro’s aid:Â President Donald Trump has, at times, claimed that his tariffs are due to other countries’ unfair trade practices: “We are going to have 10 percent to 20 percent tariffs on foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years, we are going to charge them 10 percent to 20 percent […]
In May, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his statutory authority when he invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose stiff, wide-ranging tariffs aimed at reducing drug trafficking and bilateral trade deficits. The Trump administration is now asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
NA Today, the Liberty Justice Center and I filed our appellate brief in VOS Selections, Inc. v. Trump, the case challenging Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs. Our litigation team also now includes Neal Katyal and Michael McConnell, leading constitutional law scholars and appellate litigators on different sides of the political spectrum. It is an honor […]
One of the supposed goals of the Trump administration’s trade policies is to protect and promote American-made products. Greg Shugar, who owns a business that does make things right here in America, has a hard time seeing it that way. “I’m charging more and I’m making less,” says Shugar, owner of Beau Ties of Vermont, […]
The TSA ends its stupidest rule ever after 20 years of pointlessness: The Transportation Security Administration has started to phase out its rule requiring travelers to take off their shoes before going through security after, oh, just 20 years of forcing everyone to show off their ugly toenails in public. Per The New York Times, “the […]
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Reason reporter Eric Boehm unpack the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, focusing on its tax carve-outs, special-interest subsidies, and what happens when key provisions expire in 2028. They also examine the potential fallout from Trump’s looming trade deadline with the European […]
If you still believe there is some overarching goal—new trade deals, negotiating for lower trade barriers, or whatever—to the Trump administration’s trade policy agenda, Monday’s announcement of new tariffs targeting imports from South Korea ought to put an end to all that. South Korea was not the only country whose goods were hit with higher […]