Donald Trump is escalating a protective barrier around America

American presidents from Ronald Reagan used Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Pink Garden to celebrate important moments in America’s campaign to liberalize the global economy.

But on Wednesday, Donald Trump chose the place to announce A new tariff is very slope On all imports with the additional sanctions of many trade partners in America, which led to the establishment of a protective barrier on the largest economy in the world in a flat tunnel of American international economic policy.

“It is our announcement of economic independence,” said Trump. “For years, American citizens who are working hard to sit on the margin forced because other countries have become rich and strong, and many of them are at our expense, but now it is our role in prosperity.”

Since the White House appears to be heading towards a new American Autarky form, the decisive question is whether Trump will be able to maintain these aggressive commercial policies for a long time or in the end it will reflect it under the weight of the economy, markets, politics and even legal. It was S&P 500 Futures 3 % decrease after Trump’s announcement.

While doubts about it World Trade It has been building in the United States over the past decade, and Trump put himself drawings on hundreds of billions of Chinese goods during his first term that Joe Biden kept, and the US President has now moved to only targeting Beijing.

Trump is now studying an economic separation greater than a wide range of countries, including Japan, South Korea and the European Union, which greatly raises the risks – and the possibility of economic damage.

“If a tariff is imposed on one country, such as China, at least you have other markets available to you. If you are imposed on everyone, you only have your market to rely on it,”

He added: “On history, the two countries tried to do so, and they usually end up giving themselves less economic growth, low labor, higher prices, and less quality.”

“I hope that (Trump) will do some of this back, because I think it combines an unequicator economic policy and an unequel external policy,” Fontaine said.

Although the president carried out strict trade policies during the 2024 elections – as he did in 2016 – his determination was to achieve a high tariff from his economic priority in the first months of his second term.

White House officials confirmed that they were pushing for structural changes to the global economy to correct problems that would be difficult to overcome, from high customs tariffs around the world to tax and tax policies, intellectual property theft to health and work standards.

One of the White House officials told reporters on Wednesday afternoon: “Today we are in one era, and tomorrow, we will be in a different era. No one has done anything like this,” one of the White House officials told reporters.

The sprawling nature of Washington’s complaints has hoped that the president would have agreed on a rapid agreement and changes in the few cosmetic policy – the most benign scenario for investors, major companies and foreign officials.

“The idea that the customs tariff is simply rejected as a tool to negotiate with short-term deals and for victories in the board of directors,” said Mayron Berillang, the chief adviser to the DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a consulting company in Washington.

He added: “This may be composed of the strategy, but it is not the central element. I think the main task that the president and his team publishes, in their minds,” the level of the stadium “and extract a price for that.”

Trump appears to be less disturbing due to market turmoil and the possibility of economic pain than it was in the past, which may mean that he will adhere to tariffs for a longer period.

Some officials within the administration, such as Peter Navarro, the hard -line advisor, emphasizes the need to achieve long -term revenues of up to $ 600 billion annually, which can pay for other economic plans, including planned tax cuts.

But this does not mean that the administration’s tolerance with its definitions will be unlimited, especially if the commercial partners respond to the threat or imposition of retaliatory measures – as some have already done – would double the economic impact.

It is widely expected widely widespread in the aftermath of Wednesday’s announcement, which led to strenuous and strained talks with unequal results, which is widely expected in the wake of Wednesday’s announcement, which led to strenuous and strenuous talks with strenuous and tense results that are widely expected between executives between executives between executives, pressure groups, foreign leaders and diplomats to benefit from exemptions Wide sculpting in the wake of Wednesday’s announcement, which led to strenuous and strenuous talks with uneven results.

At the present time, a White House official said they “focus mainly on setting the customs tariff system.” The primary line tariff for all 10 percent imports, which Trump made factors for the first time on the campaign track in August 2023, will apply to a secret fast on April 5. Additional mutual fees will be imposed on April 9.

The Trump administration said the definitions can be reduced if commercial partners take “important steps” to change their policies, but they can also increase if they criticize commercial partners.

“My advice to every country is at the present time, it is not divided, sitting, and taking it, let’s see how things go,” Scott Bessin, Minister of Treasury, told Fox News. “If you are missing, there will be an escalation. If you don’t decrease, this is the high water mark.”

Pushing the complex tariff can be through the legal challenge to use Trump for emergency powers to impose fees. “We don’t know how the courts will respond, but I am sure it will be tested,” said Evert Essenstat, a former Trump commercial official now at Squire Patton Boggs, a law firm.

But the main factor that can cause Trump and his team to have second ideas about their new trade policies may be a raw policy. Divide in the president’s classification or fears of Capitol Hill that the Republican majority in the congressional councils can be at risk of renewal elections in 2026 may lead to rethinking.

“If members of Congress begin to feel pain because their voters scream at the high prices … it may have some influence on the president, who has a large growth agenda in the future that he still wants to move forward. I don’t think it will be allies or others who complain of market turmoil.”

But at the present time, in Washington as much as it is in the rooms of the board of directors and capitals around the world, the effect of Trump building a high fence on the American economy is still digested and appears to be risky.

“We have no idea about the broad definitions of this type that will launch it,” said Edward Alden, a older colleague in the Foreign Relations Council.