President Donald Trump is using his love of tariffs to threaten high-profile American companies. Over the past month, Trump has said he’d like to target two specific and very different companies — Apple and Mattel — with tariffs aimed at their key products over comments by their CEOs.

President Donald Trump has said that if the U.S. is not allowed to implement tariffs, it "doesn't have, even a small chance, of economic survival."

Discount retailer Dollar Tree said the impact of tariffs will result in lower than expected profit for the second quarter, which ends Aug. 3.

(Reuters) -Discount store operator Dollar Tree forecast its second-quarter adjusted profit to be down as much as 50% from a year ago, accounting for cost pressures due to tariffs and the pending Family Dollar sale.

President Donald Trump is using his love of tariffs to threaten high-profile American companies. Over the past month, Trump has said he’d like to target two specific and very different companies — Apple and Mattel — with tariffs aimed at their key products over comments by their CEOs.

Back on April 2, during the so-called "Liberation Day," Donald Trump announced a wave of reciprocal tariffs on countries exporting goods to the US, that could impact not only the US economy but also the economies of key US trading partners.

The twists and turns in U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies have not only rattled global financial markets but have also taken investors on a roller-coaster ride. Companies are counting the cost of the trade war that is now being estimated at more than $34 billion in lost sales and higher expenses,

Donald Trump’s combative trade policies have tipped the world economy into a downturn, with the US among the hardest hit, the OECD said.

U.S. President Donald Trump is intensifying his push on tariffs following a recent federal court ruling, raising pressure on Korea’s incoming administration ahead of soon-to-begin full-scale trade negotiations with Washington.