Month: April 2025

The Trump administration is set to slap a broad set of tariffs on imported goods. Similar policies have had a range of impacts in the past.

As the sirens wailed outside the ruins of Mandalay’s Sky Villa condominium and Myanmar began a minute’s silence for its more than 2,000 earthquake dead, Shwe Sin thought of her missing child.The Sky Villa block was one of Mandalay’s better housing options, with a generator offering 24-hour electricity — a rarity in war-ravaged Myanmar even before Friday’s quake — as well as a gym and a swimming pool.

Here’s what “liberation day” means for you.

President Donald Trump has kept his promise on tariffs — so much so that it’s freaking out investors, economists, CEOs and a growing segment of the population who fear the import taxes will do more harm than good.

Drugmakers are lobbying U.S. President Donald Trump to phase in tariffs on imported pharmaceutical products in hopes of reducing the sting from the charges and to allow time to shift manufacturing, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.