Tariffs are a type of trade barrier that makes imported products more expensive than domestic ones. Tariffs typically come in the form of taxes or duties levied on importers, and they're eventually ...

Under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, member nations may, under certain circumstances, take steps to apply restrictions on imports they deem to be harmful to their domestic industries. These ...

Section 1. Background. The United States has one of the most open economies and has among the lowest average weighted tariff rates in the world. The United States imposes fewer barriers to imports ...

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration released an encyclopedic list of foreign countries' policies and regulations it regards as trade barriers on Monday, two ...

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China will examine whether European Union investigations of Chinese enterprises amounted to "trade barriers," its commerce ministry said on Wednesday. The enquiry will ...

Environmentalists do not get on with free-traders. Suspicion is the norm, if not the outright hostility on display at the “Battle of Seattle” in 1999, which took place between riot police and ...