Blanket tariffs on all goods imports confirm he is committed to ‘liberating’ the US from the very system that made it prosperous.
Globalisation helped make the United States the most prosperous country in history, but many Americans apparently did not feel (or appreciate) it, so they voted to “liberate” themselves from the system that America built. US President Donald Trump is now delivering for them, and the consequences are reverberating around the world.
“Now it’s our turn to prosper,” Trump proclaimed on April 2, when he announced sweeping tariffs, ranging from 10 to 50 per cent, on almost every US trading partner (plus a few uninhabited territories). China was hit with a 34 per cent tariff on top of the 20 per cent duties Trump had already levied in February and March.
