Tariffs and trade are not side issues, but a central front in the battle against monopoly power—and for self-government.

President Donald Trump is a vocal opponent of the U.S. trade deficit and he believes tariffs are the method to reducing it; ...

President Donald Trump declined to offer details about a trade-focused phone call he apparently had with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In an interview published Friday, Trump told Time that Xi ...

But his apparent willingness to de-escalate America’s trade war with the world’s second-biggest economy has been brushed off by government officials in China and ridiculed online as ...