The main types of trade barriers used by countries seeking a protectionist policy or as a form of retaliatory trade barriers are subsidies, standardization, tariffs, quotas, and licenses.

US President Donald Trump has rattled economies and markets with his promise of imposing punitive tariffs on the nation’s ...

As students across Australia head back to school, year 12 Economics students will spend their first few weeks learning about ...

In an interview with newsmen during the Mission 300 Energy Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Verheijen disclosed that higher electricity tariffs, which need to be balanced by subsidies for less ...

Slashing subsidies might “save money” in a ... not end up undermining the survival of our own industrial base. Tariffs or quotas limiting certain imports might be necessary, along with ...

For most of U.S. history, tariffs were a solution to specific economic problems. Washington used them to raise money and to protect U.S. industries from foreign competitors. And after World War II, ...

India’s government is considering fresh subsidies for electronic component-makers and cutting tariffs on imports to help boost local manufacturing, especially of smartphones made by companies like ...