Where Does President Trump’s Tariff Campaign Stand?: QuickTake

President Donald Trump has delivered on his campaign pledge to put tariffs at the center of US economic policy. He’s gone further than that by wielding the taxes on imports to pressure other nations to yield to his demands on matters beyond trade.

The new tariffs the US has imposed since Trump began his second term represent the country’s most significant protectionist shift in almost a century — even with the various pauses, reductions and exemptions that have been announced. The scale of the levies has pushed the world’s biggest economy into uncharted territory, alarmed its trading partners, and whipsawed global financial ...