tariff

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that imposes a 15% tariff on imported products made from polysilicon, a crucial material used in semiconductors and solar panels.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The guidance includes a full-year $14.4 million tariff refund benefit that is being used to offset strategic investments in the business, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Even if the tariff money were specifically directed at debt service, it wouldn’t have done much to defray the roughly $1 trillion in interest the government will incur this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

This represents roughly 60% of all tariff revenue collected by the government under the policy, according to a recent court filing, external from US Customs and Border Protection.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The tariff controversy was settled, but it hinted at a greater problem.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Washington and Beijing have also been locked in a tit-for-tat tariffs war, which has been on hold since May 2025.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Wang said tariffs haven’t affected his company at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Some of those U.S. companies applauded the new tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Consumer packaged goods and auto companies are “overrepresented” on the platform, making up 25% of the business, and those companies have been hit hard by tariffs and oil prices, Green added.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

He had heard talk of tariffs, of slave states and free ones, of a violent old man named John Brown, and during the past winter, of states seceding from the Union.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Some of the tariff effect has shown up in higher retail prices for foreign goods or domestic goods made wholly or partially from tariffed imported parts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Customs and Border Protection official recently told the trade court that companies will have to do their own accounting and upload a spreadsheet listing each wrongly tariffed good and the amount owed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

It’s also possible that retailers, figuring that consumers would expect to pay more for tariffed washing machines and would assume the same effect held for dryers, charged more for the latter to fatten their profits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Importers have been agile in switching their supply chains away from the most highly tariffed countries.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

Speaking of funerals reminds me that the newspapers propose that the undertakers, like the butchers, should be tariffed.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

This is why the surreal stories about the US tariffing rarely visited islands only inhabited by penguins matter.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025

“You can’t be tariffing people at the same exact time that you’re negotiating a detailed arrangement with them,” Mr. Ross said, while describing them as a cocked pistol.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2018

He had something to do with the high cost of tariffing.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie

The exportation of the national specie was still forbidden, and more than once the State found itself obliged to return to the question of the tariffing of its coinage.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur