Since the 1960s, tariffs — or import taxes — have emerged from negotiations between dozens of countries. Trump wants to seize the process. “Obviously, it disrupts the way that things have been done for a very long time,

President Donald Trump called for "reciprocal tariffs" on nations that impose tariffs on the United States.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Trump’s recent decision to study the proposed reciprocal tariffs instead of immediately enacting them. “As we’ve learned that with