President Donald Trump is likely to dust off a 1930 trade law largely forgotten for decades to back his new reciprocal U.S.

The president said advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies affecting trade with the United States.

especially as multilateral trade negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor to the World Trade Organization (WTO), were underway. Accordingly, the John F.

The U.S. helped create the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1948, the precursor to the World Trade Organization, which set global rules for trade and ushered in an era of low tariffs.

President Donald Trump's moves to impose or threaten higher tariffs ... under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Taxes (GATT) in 1947, which later became part of the World Trade Organization ...

Trump said there was nothing the three countries could do now to stop the tariffs. Trump announced general tariffs at ... administration’s handling of trade agreements. During his previous ...

Sanger has covered five presidents, and recently wrote a book ... Agreement, or USMCA, which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement. “The USMCA has to do with free trade and no tariffs ...