President Donald Trump plans to use tariffs in the coming days to pursue a range of disparate and sometimes conflicting goals, from pressuring neighboring countries on immigration and boosting domestic manufacturing to penalizing trade partners for their own tariffs.
Critics, including longtime free-market economists and trade experts, have criticized Trump’s tariff plans as incoherent and economically damaging.
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