Want to know who is winning and losing in President Trump’s trade war? So do we.
At Taxpayers for Common Sense, we’ve been following the events of the trade war very closely, and have had several observations right off the bat – namely, it wasn’t hard to foresee that taxpayers were going to pick up the tab to compensate businesses getting caught in the crossfire of tit-for-tat tariffs. Or that although the fallout started with agribusinesses, the damage – like tariffs – was going to spread to other industries as Washington began to try and replace trade with hush money aid.
So what tariffs are in play? What damages are American businesses facing? What’s the dollar value of business lost? What’s the taxpayer on the hook for? Find out all that, and more, in our rolling analysis of the Trump Trade and Tariff Tiff.
Scroll down to find our most recent coverage. If this is the first you’re reading up on this issue, start here – with a continually updated timeline and a downloadable, growing spreadsheet of the tariffs.
December 21, 2021
New GAO Report: Trump Trade War Bailout Was Inequitable
January 16, 2020
Lousy Process Makes Lousy Trade Deal
October 11, 2019
The Much Misunderstood Tariffs and Trade War
August 23, 2019
Trade War Heats Up as Summer Fizzles
August 13, 2019
President Trump Gives Himself a Christmas Gift
August 7, 2019
Trade war with China takes a turn for the worse
July 29, 2019
Trump Administration Doubles Cost of Ag Safety Net
July 19, 2019
July 10, 2019
It’s not too late to end the trade war (that we started)
June 17, 2019
USTR Hearings on Making TVs more expensive again
June 14, 2019
Buy America – More Protectionist Than Patriotic
May 31, 2019
President Trump Threatens Mexico with New Tariffs
May 23, 2019
The Trade War’s Next Chapter Produces a Frankenstein’s Monster of Farm Programs
May 20, 2019
Trade War SitRep: Winter Has Come
May 14, 2019
USDA Set to Unleash Second, Larger Round of Farm State Hush Money
May 10, 2019
Treadmill of Tariffs Worsens Trade Blunders
May 9, 2019
Tariff Man’s Twitter Fingers Tweet A Storm
February 27, 2019
February 21, 2019
February 6, 2019
February 1, 2019
Support Congressional Approval for Section 232 Designations
December 18, 2018
Trump Administration, Making Farm Welfare Payments Great Again
December 7, 2018
The Tariff and Trade War Two-Step – One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
December 4, 2018
G20 Meeting Leads to (Potential) Pause in US China Trade War
November 19, 2018
Farm State Hush Money Details Released
October 29, 2018
Trade Tariff Hush Money Tranche #2
October 2, 2018
Goodbye NAFTA, Hello USMCA (NAFTA 2.0)
September 21, 2018
The Absurdities and Cynicism of the Trade War
September 19, 2018
Trump Hikes Import Taxes on $200 Billion of Products from China
September 14, 2018
September 13, 2018
September 11, 2018
A Cornucopia of Myths and Misinformation in the Farm Bill Conference Meeting
September 4, 2018
Trade War v. Farm Bill: The Return of Congress
August 30, 2018
August 29, 2018
August 27, 2018
Trade Tariff Hush Money Tranche #1
August 21, 2018
Trump’s Tariff Frenzy Knows No Bounds
August 15, 2018
Trump Tension with Turkey Turns to Tariffs
August 15, 2018
Taxpayers are Dairy’s Cash Cow
August 15, 2018
July 27, 2018
July 26, 2018
July 25, 2018
Replacing farm trade with farm aid will be an expensive recipe for disaster
July 24,2018
Trump Administration Cuts Checks To Salve Trade Wounds
July 12,2018
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