The Imperial Presidency

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Something else to keep in mind; import tariffs aren't the only sort of tariffs that exist.

You can also tariff goods being sold from your nation to another.

Now, that is not a likely tool to be used, but it's an option.


And yeah, expect a lot of nations to pursue a decoupling from the USA to one measure or another, because picking the idiot once was bad enough, and now it happened a second time and this time the USA appears to be setting its government and economy on fire as hard as it can.