While the White House is waging a trade war on behalf of US manufacturing, the largest and most important part of the US economy, one that has a trade surplus, not a gap, is under threat.

Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change ...

Yet, this crucial element of the U.S. economy has gone largely unmentioned in Trump’s tariff war. The administration loves to talk about America’s trade deficit but only in terms of manufacturing. It ...

Readers reply to Allysia Finley’s column on manufacturing.

The Trump administration says sweeping tariffs will reverse this decades-long decline. But a vision of reinvigorated factory ...

Anderson Economic Group studied the projected impact from Trump's auto tariffs and estimated how much it will ding UAW profit ...

The Trump tariffs will not revitalize the American economy like he thinks, but maybe Bitcoin can help where tariffs can't.

Only California and New York have lost more manufacturing jobs than Michigan since Jan. 1, 2019, when Whitmer became governor ...

President Trump claims 90,000 factories have shuttered since the free trade agreement took effect, but more recent data shows the figure is misleadingly high.

The Trump administration has argued that the new tariffs will help return manufacturing jobs to the United States.

The Treasury secretary said former government employees could create the labor pool necessary for America's manufacturing revival.

The loss of manufacturing jobs is partly about globalisation, which Trump is seeking to reverse. But research shows that ...