Raya Salter remembers the yells as a child when she asked her mother to turn up the heat in the winter: “Put on a sweater. Put on two sweaters. Here’s an extra blanket. That’s gonna make it work because the heat is not going up.

Most economists agree that tariffs are self-defeating because countries often retaliate with their own tariffs.

Electric car company Tesla is asking President Donald Trump’s administration to “consider the downstream impacts” of retaliatory tariffs in Trump’s trade war with multiple countries. The March 11 letter to the U.