Donald Trump sets a protectionist barrier on America

US presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush used the White House pink garden to celebrate significant points in the pursuit of America for the liberalization of the world economy.

But on Wednesday, Donald Trump chose a place to announce steep new tariffs On all imports with additional fines for many best trading partners in America, erecting a protectionist barrier to the world’s largest economy in the variable change in the US international economic policy.

“This is our declaration of economic independence,” said Trump, detaining a poster with a list of the best countries that would be affected by tariffs. “For many years, hard-working American citizens have been forced to sit on the sidelines, as other countries got rich and fought hard, most of it at our expense, but now our turn is working,” he added.

Since the White House appears to be some form of a new American author, the main issue is whether Trump will be able to support this aggressive trade policy for a long period or eventually cancel them under the weight of economic, market, political and even legal pressure. S&P 500 futures were will decrease by 3 percent after Trump’s announcement.

While skepticism around Global trade Being in the US for the last decade, and Trump himself has put up hundreds of billions of Chinese goods during its first term held by Joe Biden, the US president has gone far beyond Beijing.

Currently, Trump conducts a greater economic department from a much wider range of countries, including Japan and South Korea and the EU, sharply raising rates – and the potential of economic damage.

“If you impose tariffs on one country like China, at least you have other markets. If you put them on, you only have your own market that you can hope,” Richard Fontan, president of the New American Security Center, Washington Analytical Center, warned.

“For the country’s history, they tried it and usually gave themselves lower economic growth, reduction of employment, higher prices, less quality,” he added.

“I hope (Trump) will respond part of this back because I think it combines economic policy that is not productive with foreign policy that is not productive,” Fantten said.

Despite the fact that the president campaigned on fierce trade policy during the 2024 elections – as in 2016, its determination to make high tariffs with its main economic priority in the first months of its second term was strange.

White House representatives emphasized that they are striving for structural changes in the world economy to correct the problems that will be difficult to overcome, ranging from high tariffs around the world to foreign exchange and tax policy, theft of intellectual property and even in the field of health and work.

“Today we are in the same era, and tomorrow we will be in another era. Nobody has done anything like this,” one White House official said to journalists on Wednesday afternoon.

Washington’s spreading nature has been hoping that the president could be reached by a rapid agreement and several changes in cosmetic policy – the most benign scenario for investors, large enterprises and foreign officials.

“Imagination of the tariffs will be used simply as a tool for short-term transactions, and for winning the Council must be declined,” said Mir Brillian, Senior Advisor by Dga-Albright Stonbridge Group.

“It can be a strategy component, but it is not a central component. I think the main mission that the president and his team unfolds is, in their opinion,” to level the game conditions “and to get the price for that,” he added.

Trump also turned out to be less disturbed by market shocks and potential for economic pain than in the past, which can mean that he will follow the tariffs longer.

Some officials in the administration, such as Peter Navarre, the presidential trade advisor, emphasize the need for fees to earn a long -term profit of $ 600 billion a year, which can pay for other economic plans, including planned tax reduction.

But this does not mean that the administration’s tolerance to its own tariffs will be unlimited, especially if trading partners respond, threatening or imposing measures – as some already have – it affects economic influence.

In connection with the announcement of the Wednesday, which will lead to a painstaking negotiation with potentially unequal results, a fight among the heads of enterprises, lobbyists, foreign leaders and diplomats asked for release and nomination, which would lead to corporate, intense negotiations with potentially unequal results.

So far, the White House official said he was basically “focused on creating tariffs.” The base tariff for all 10 percent imports, which Trump first sailed along the campaign trail in August 2023, will come into force on April 5. On April 9, additional, so -called mutual levies will be imposed.

Trump’s administration said the tariffs could be reduced if the trading partners have taken “significant steps” to change their policy, but also what they could increase if trading partners avenged.

“My advice in every country now: don’t avenge, sit down, accept it, let’s see how it happens,” said Fox News Scott, the Treasury Secretary. “If you avenge, there will be escalation. If you don’t revenge, it’s a high water sign.”

The tariff impetus can complicate the legal task of using Trump’s emergency powers to bring the fees. “We do not know how the courts answer, but I am sure it will be verified,” said Evereth Eisensstat, a former Trump Trade official, who is now in the Squire Patton Boggs.

But the main factor that can lead to Trump and his team to think about his new trade policy may well become a raw policy. Falling in the presidential approval or fight on the Capitol hill that the national majority in both chambers of Congress may be at risk in the 2026 intermediate elections, can push a rethink.

“When Congress members begin to feel pain because their voters shout about higher prices.

But as long as Washington is as much as in councils and capitals around the world, the influence of the construction of Trump high fence around the American economy is still digested and seems to be a lot of danger.

“We have no idea what broad tariffs of this kind are going to unleash … In the world we have not seen such tariffs in the modern era of trade integration,” said Edward Olden, a senior employee of the Foreign Relations Council.