2025-04-04
46 分钟The Economist. My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day.
On Wednesday afternoon,
President Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced a generational shift in US trade policy.
April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day...
American industry was reborn and the day that we began to make America wealthy again.
Trump blames America's addiction to imports for the hollowing out of the country's industrial heartlands.
In short, chronic trade deficits are no longer merely an economic problem.
They're a national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life.
His solution?
Immense tariffs.
illustrated on a large cardboard chart.
And I'd like to see the chart, if you have it.
Could you bring it up, Howard?
In the left-hand column is a list of countries.
Next to each one is a percentage figure,
which is the tariff the Trump administration says the country charges the US,
though without any evidence.
Next to that is another figure.
The new tariff that America will impose on goods that country exports to the US.
China, first row.