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Is There a Trade Problem to Solve?

Is There a Trade Problem to Solve?
President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing tariffs on imported goods during a "Make America Wealthy Again" trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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President Donald Trump’s dramatic tariff imposition reverses more than a century of U.S. policy, all in an effort to fix a problem about which he has been raging since the 1980s. What appears to most everyone as a wild gamble feels to him like a certain prescription to fix what fundamentally ails the United States, namely its inability to compete in manufacturing with nearly all countries in the world.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]