President Donald Trump’s aggressive new tariff policies, set to take effect this month, will significantly raise prices on everyday goods — from clothing and cars to coffee and electronics — as the administration seeks to reshape global trade in favor of American industry. Announced on April 2, 2025, the measures include a universal 10% tariff on all imports and additional “reciprocal tariffs” targeting over 60 trade partners, with China facing the harshest levies at 34%. White House spokesman Kush Desai accused critics of alarmism, invoking Trump’s first-term trade policies: “Chicken Little ‘expert’ predictions didn’t pan out then, and they won’t now.” Yet the scale of the new tariffs dwarfs Trump’s earlier measures, affecting $2.5 trillion in imports—nearly seven times the 2018–2019 totals.
Author: Willow Tohi
Published at: 2025-04-08 22:30:07
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