Outside the Beltway

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

After more than a year of Trump’s trade war, the trade deficit, which he promised to reduce, has increased.

From manufacturing to trade, the negative impact of Trump’s tariffs is becoming quite apparent.

President Trump’s newest tariffs went into effect over the weekend. They’re going to hurt.

President Trump’s hand-picked Federal Reserve Chairman is stating the blindingly obvious about the ongoing trade war, so of course the President labeled him an enemy.

A new poll shows solid support for free trade and opposition to the President’s tariffs, suggesting strongly that Trump is losing the public relations battle on this issue.

President Trump is delaying implementation of his recently announced tariffs on Chinese goods.

Economic analysts are growing increasingly worried that the President’s trade war could push the world economy into recession, and take the American economy along with it.

The new round of tariffs on Chinese made goods that the President announced late last week will have a particularly severe impact on consumers and retailers.

President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect on September 1st Another stupid move in a very dumb trade war.

The latest Federal Reserve report on the economy shows Trump’s trade policies are having an increasingly negative impact.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

This time: India.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

So good. So easy to win.

The President’s trade policies stand to benefit a lot of other countries, just not the United States.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

The Trump Administration is proposing another round of tariffs on even more Chinese goods.

China has retaliated for the tariffs that the President imposed late last week, and things look like they’re only going to get worse.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

Not good, not easy to win.

A second Federal Judge has found that the Commerce Department violated the law when it moved to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census form.

Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.

Despite the President’s claims, the American steel industry isn’t doing well at all.

That’s not how it works.

The TPP is about to go into effect without the US.

Presidents Trump and Xi have agree to a “90 day cease fire” on new tariffs. This means that Trump will not raise tariffs on Chinese imports that were scheduled to take effect on January 1st of next year. The tariffs will go into effect if the two countries cannot reach an agreement within that 90 day time frame.

President Trump’s trade war with China is leading car manufacturers to shift production from the U.S. to China.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.

Donald Trump’s trade war is helping China expand its diplomatic influence.

As expected, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Chinese goods yesterday, and China quickly retaliated.

President Trump is set to expand his ill-advised, economically ignorant, trade war with China.

President Trump’s much-hyped replacement for NAFTA doesn’t really amount to much and won’t amount to anything unless he can get Canada, and the U.S. Congress, on board.

President Trump appears to be ready to expand his ignorant, counterproductive trade war with China.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

The natural intuition of the aluminum tariff is that it would help Alcoa, the largest manufacturer of aluminum in the U.S. But apparently these things are a bit more complicated that one’s intuition would indicate.

The recent report of 4.1% GDP growth over the previous quarter is indeed welcome news. However, taking a look at the data both recent and in the past and there are some reasons to be concerned about GDP growth in general.