President Trump announced that the United States will hit back at any country that imposes trade barriers on American exports by subjecting them to sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs — an unprecedented move that threatens to upend the global economy,

Liberation Day’ plan puts markets on high alert Trump has arrived at the White House’s Rose Garden to make a highly anticipated announcement, giving his first detailed overview of the reciprocal tariff programme.

President Donald Trump’s much vaunted “reciprocal tariffs” aren’t reciprocal and aren’t really about tariffs – they’re about his fixation on trade deficits with other countries. (With apologies to Voltaire.