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The pause not only makes the Admin look inept and arbitrary but undermines the only potentially good justification for tariffs in the first place—that Trump was rebalancing the US economic system. Short term tariffs don’t create the long term incentives sufficient to substantially change anything
Apr 13, 2025, 2:21 AM
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