Tariffs aren’t going to reverse the loss of auto jobs in the Midwest during the last 30 years. Automation, and a change in American car buyers’ preferences, cost more jobs than bad trade deals.

President Trump has argued his new tariffs will help reverse the long decline of U.S. manufacturing, pointing to the loss of "90,000 factories" since the North American Free Trade Agreement took ...

The pre-2025 international trade regime benefited the United States. The country has lost ground to China but remains the ...

Trump promises that his 25% tariffs on all imported cars will raise costs enough to bring a flood of new auto plant construction, and thus auto jobs, back to US shores. But the loss of auto jobs ...