Trump Widens Trade Fight to Include Global Taxes and Regulation

President Donald Trump is embarking on what may be his most disruptive action yet for the global economy by broadening his grievances to how other countries choose to tax and regulate.

Trump on Thursday ordered top economic officials to calculate new US tariffs based on the total tariffs and tax, regulatory, currency and any other barriers that US exports face. The new “reciprocal” duties would be calculated country by country. They will be laid out in a series of reports due by April 1 that officials said would first examine the economies with which the US has the largest trade ...