Trump’s five most absurd ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

Published April 8, 2025 10:38am ET



President Donald Trump has announced high tariffs on every country in the world and plenty of not-quite countries.

The administration calls these “reciprocal tariffs,” implying that we will tax other countries’ exports to us the same way they tax our exports to them. As Trump said, “Reciprocal: That means they do it to us, and we do it to them.” 

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