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.

Governments can use tariffs, quotas, and subsidies to make foreign goods more expensive and harder to get. The idea is to get consumers to buy locally, protecting jobs and boosting the national ...

“Our results … could be adversely impacted … if new or increased tariffs, quotas, exchange or price controls, trade barriers or similar restrictions are imposed on our business.” ...

Tariffs are a tax imposed on goods that the U.S. imports from other nations. President Donald Trump said the U.S. would impose sweeping tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, but last ...

China's tariffs - due to begin next Monday - would also apply to US oil and farm machinery, but more talks are due this week.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said Thursday, that he will impose the 25 per cent tariff on both Canada and ...