Workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy.
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$15 Billion and Climbing: Trump’s Tariffs Deliver Record High Revenue
U.S. Customs duty collections soared more than 60% in April, marking the highest monthly revenue haul in terms of dollars in American history.
According to newly released Treasury Department data reviewed by Bloomberg, at least $15.4 billion in customs duties and related excise taxes flowed into federal coffers last month, $6 billion more than the month before. This spike in revenue coincides with the first wave of President Donald Trump’s newly implemented tariffs taking effect. Those include a renewed 25% tariff on steel and the “universal” 10% tariff Trump announced on April 2.
Read the full storyCommentary: Trump Is Delivering on His Biggest Campaign Promise
President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs sent shockwaves through global markets and diplomatic circles. But beneath the noise lies a simple political truth: using tariffs as a negotiating tactic is working. Trump isn’t just taxing imports — he’s using leverage to bring foreign investment into the United States and to restore manufacturing jobs, just like he promised during the 2024 campaign.
Read the full storyAnalysis: Americans Say It’s Time to Stand Up to China on Trade, Harvard Poll Finds
Since President Donald Trump announced his bold tariff strategy — aimed at leveling the playing field by placing reciprocal tariffs on nations that tax American-made goods and bolstering U.S. manufacturing — media pundits and “experts” have been tripping over themselves to predict economic doom.
Read the full storySen. Bill Hagerty Says ‘China Should Have Seen this Coming’ as Trump Pauses Tariffs for Some but Hikes China to 125 Percent
U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) on Wednesday said China should have higher tariffs and increased economic pressure from President Donald Trump ahead of the Trump administration’s sweeping trade reformed that is now primarily aimed at China.
Hagerty, in comments made on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria,” argued “China should have seen this coming,” because Trump “telegraphed this throughout the campaign.”
Read the full storyCommentary: Trump Brings 75 Nations to the Table for Fair Trade Deals as China Isolated, While Congress Keeps Panicking
“We saw the successful negotiating strategy that President Trump implemented a week ago today. It has brought more than 75 countries forward to negotiate. It took great courage for him to stay the course until this moment and what we have ended up with here, as I told everyone a week ago, in this very spot, do not retaliate and you will be rewarded.”
Read the full storyFord Motor Company Offers Employee Pricing to U.S. Buyers amid Trump Tariff Shift
Ford Motor Company announced on Thursday it is offering “employee pricing” for all U.S. consumers. Dubbed “Ford Motor Company: From America, For America,” the program effectively drops the price of new Ford and Lincoln vehicles by thousands of dollars.
Read the full storyAnalysis: Commodities, Interest Rates Collapse After President Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs Announcement
Commodities prices and interest rates collapsed across the board following President Donald Trump’s Wednesday announcement of reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trade partners despite Congressional Democrats’ predictions that inflation would increase as a result of the tariffs.
Read the full storyTrump Details ‘Fair Trade’ Era with Sweeping New Tariffs: ‘Now It’s Our Turn to Prosper’
What happened in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday afternoon can’t be underestimated, an undeniable shot heard throughout the world of global trade. President Donald Trump imposed a nearly universal 10% tax on most foreign products entering the United States, and in so doing ended the era of free trade.
Read the full storyAnalysis: Southwest Land Border Encounters Down to 61,465 in January – the Lowest Since September 2020
The election of President Donald Trump already appears to be having a significant impact on illegal immigrant flows into the U.S., with southwest land border encounters reported by U.S. Border Patrol down to 61,465 in January, the lowest levels seen since Sept. 2020, when it was 57,674 in the middle of the Covid pandemic.
When there’s a deterrent, there can be a real change. An immediate change. Whether it be Trump’s ongoing threat of a 25 percent tariff on Mexico — he didn’t even wait to take office before leveling that ultimatum — unless they help out with border security and cracking down on the fentanyl drug cartels, or Trump moving the U.S. military to assist the Border Patrol and the border states including Texas and Arizona, the numbers speak for themselves.
Read the full storyCommentary: Trump’s Tariffs Tackle Trade Injustices, Cartels, and the Border Crisis
Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries.
Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic.
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