The article discusses President Trump's imposition of tariffs as a significant shift away from U.S. global trade engagement, traditionally seen as beneficial. These tariffs, including a 10% duty on imports from nearly all countries and punitive tariffs on specific nations, are anchored in a perspective that views foreign trade as harmful. This change could destabilize long-standing international relationships and restructure global trade dynamics, denying the benefits previously reaped from a more interconnected market that had allowed for economic growth and poverty alleviation in poorer countries.
The tariffs will destroy another pillar of American power and leave a vacuum for others to fill.
Trump's tariffs are the culmination of a decades-long shift in political perceptions in the United States, in which trade has gone from an unalloyed good to the source of all ills.
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