The parallel with the Internal Revenue Service is seen as a signal of the president-elect’s determination to enact sweeping import duties.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other revenues from foreign nations. “We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade,

The creation of a separate department will likely need congressional support, though Trump could try to establish the department within a different existing agency.