Trump raises tariffs, again
Only a day after the Supreme Court struck down his tariff regime, and less than 18 hours after signing an executive order implementing new 10 percent tariffs on all US trading partners, Donald Trump has announced he will increase the levy to 15 percent. In a post on his social media platform, the president said after a “thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American” court decision, he is “effective immediately, raising the 10 [percent] Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been ‘ripping’ the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came...