“The U.S. had high tariffs from 1816 until 1945 and that was the period in which we rose to become an industrial superpower and the wealthiest country in the world.” According to ...

The founding fathers also enacted the Tariff of 1816, that allowed Americans to generate its own textile market, all but blocking out competition from Great Britain. And in the early 1900s ...

But for Trump-aligned intellectuals, such responses are out of step with American history, which saw large tariffs levied on other nations from 1816 until the end of World War II. Jeff Ferry ...

Tariffs are President Trump's favorite word. That's not an exaggeration. "I always say 'tariffs' is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary," he said at a rally just hours after his ...