President Trump declared April 2 “Liberation Day.” Reciprocal tariffs were initially expected to go into effect this week, but have now been paused for 90 days — for all our trading partners except China, of course, which was hit with a 125 percent tariff after their retaliation to Trump’s announcement.
Trump said Wednesday all 75 countries that contacted the U.S. to negotiate new trade deals will only face a 10 percent across-the-board tariff, rather than the much larger ones threatened last week.
Critics claim tariffs will cause inflation. This is misleading.
Although there will be short-term market adjustments — as is the case with any significant policy shift — tariffs will not cause long-term inflation. In fact, they will lower the cost of goods over
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