What’s driving the policy is that since the 1980s Trump has been a protectionist, and he thinks trade deficits are losses and ...

The approach appears to punish countries based on their trade imbalances with the U.S., rather than the taxes they impose on ...

Mr. Neiman was a Biden administration Treasury official who co-wrote trade-related academic research cited by the Trump White ...

The White House shared a formula containing symbols like epsilon and phi—but critics pointed out they served no purpose.

Donald Trump's global tariffs are based on the trade deficit with countries, not a reciprocal measure of their import taxes on American goods.

President Donald Trump ... White House failed to make a clear statement of policy goals or even a measurement for how to determine its policy was a success. In particular, the administration’s ...

The calculations used by the White House don’t include a detailed assessment of each foreign country's trade practices.

The Trump administration's tariff calculations appear on paper to be a simplified math of America's trade relationships.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ... White House spokesman Kush Desai called the analyses “incorrect” and pointed to a fuller explanation of the formula from the U.S. Trade Representative, which ...

President Trump triumphantly held up a poster board in the Rose Garden on Wednesday showing the reciprocal tariffs he plans to impose on nearly every country in the world. But just how the White House ...

A White House official told Washington Post that President Donald Trump is "at the peak of just not ... The report said the ...

During the pandemic, Team Trump tried to craft a formula that told them what they wanted to hear. With tariffs, they did it again. Both were failures.