A trade policy expert explains why Trump and Xi should refrain from a trade war and how they can strike a bigger deal.

Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a trade war abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.

As President Donald Trump’s global steel and aluminum tariffs took effect, the E.U. announced it would respond with its own levies, including on bourbon and motorcycles.

Inflation slowed more than expected in February and cooled for the first time in four months, but that progress may be short lived as President Donald Trump ramps up his trade war, which threatens to increase prices for Americans.

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Trump addressed business leaders on Tuesday as stock markets continue sliding over concerns about his tariff policies.

President Donald Trump escalated his burgeoning trade war with Canada, declaring that he’ll double the steel and aluminum tariffs set to take effect tomorrow to 50 percent. Doug Ford gets under Trump’s skin: The president said the higher levies were payback for the Ontario premier’s own retaliatory move yesterday to add a 25 percent surcharge to electricity exports to three U.

President Donald Trump reversed course on Tuesday afternoon on a pledge to double tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada to 50%, just hours after announcing the higher tariffs, in rapid-fire moves that scrambled financial markets.