“Well, how do you like them apples?” Vice President JD Vance asked on Monday.
It remains to be seen whether this was a short skirmish within a larger trade war, with Trump able to brandish tariffs without actually imposing them. There are also questions about how meaningful Canadian and Mexican concessions really are while Democrats are poised to blame Trump for higher prices should they ever take effect.
What is beyond debate is that Trump’s maneuver was no surprise.
Trump campaigned on imposing tariffs last year, threatening them against even relatively friendly countries. He slapped tariffs on China during his first term, which former President Joe Biden largely left in place, and renegotiated the old North American Free Trade Agreement. He ran against the Republican
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