The world in the wake of tariffs

The world in the wake of tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted on using tariffs as a way of getting even with other nations in global trade.

The foundation of Trump’s tariffs

Trump believes every country in the world is ripping off America How the American president is using the playbook his predecessors have used for far too long THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda |  I am an admirer of President Donald Trump because I find him more realistic about issues and brutally frank in the way he expresses himself. He lacks the hypocrisy and conspiracy that characterizes most Western dealings with other countries. However, I ha…

"Give me a fixed point, and I'm lifting the world out of the way," said Archimedes. Donald Trump probably thinks a similar way, but wants to use punitive tariffs as a lever. He himself described punitive tariffs as his favorite word – according to God and religion. At the beginning of April, he left the cat out of the bag. Trump's thoughts on the tariffs imposed so far in a usual manner were concrete, and this concept really had it in itself. Tr…