News of the US president's plan to halt higher-band taxes came as a surprise on Wednesday, but was it part of a plan?

By Fedja Grulovic, Patricia Weiss and Jaspreet Singh BELGRADE/FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's sudden about-face on sweeping import tariffs did little to soothe companies' worries about the fallout from his trade war and its chaotic implementation: soaring costs,

President Trump announced a 90-day pause on some tariffs, while also announcing China’s tariffs would rise to 125%. “Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%,

While the financial markets heave a collective sigh of relief now that President Donald Trump has paused the implementation of reciprocal tariffs (except those targeted at China), even the most optimistic among us would not dare imagine that this chapter has closed.

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Products made here might still depend on materials from overseas. And they might be made on machines needing foreign replacement parts.

U.S. stocks are giving back some of their historic gains from the day before as Wall Street weighs a global trade war that has cooled in temperature but is still threatening the economy

President Trump’s 90-day pause on tariffs buoyed stocks. But the U.S. has come to look like a source of uncertainty more than order.

Even before President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs on China kicked in, Christopher Johns, a computer repair shop owner in Asheville, had already seen the prices of graphics cards skyrocket. The cards,