Welcome to The Inquiry with me, Tanya Beckett, on the BBC World Service.
One question, four expert witnesses and an answer.
It was the week that shook the global economy to its core and heralded the ushering in of a new economic era.
On the 2nd of April, President Trump announced radical new taxes on foreign imports,
amounting to what he described as Liberation Day for the United States.
It was the fulfilment of a promise he'd made the September before at the height of his presidential campaign.
Here is the deal that I will be offering to every major company and manufacturer on earth.
If you don't make your product here, then you will have to pay a tariff,
a very substantial tariff, when you send your product into the United States.
And by the way, you know, for years they knocked the word.
The word tariff, properly used, is a beautiful word.
One of the most beautiful words I've ever heard.
It's music to my ears.
But the sheer size of the tariffs being proposed on April 2nd was much greater than almost anyone had been expecting.
Financial markets plunged as investors braced themselves for a shock to the flow of international trade.
Faced with prolonged market turmoil, within days the president paused most of his plans,
leaving a blanket tariff of 10% on most countries.
But the damage to the credibility of the world's largest economy was already done.
This week on The Inquiry, we're asking, what is Trump's economic plan?
As we've said,