How Economic Security Helped Drive Trump’s Tariff Wars

The age of trade protectionism returned to America in 2025 with the shudder of a closing customs gate. President Donald Trump has long professed his love of tariffs, once calling them “the most beautiful word” in the dictionary. In February 2025, barely a month into his second term, Trump breached the trade agreement he himself negotiated with Canada and Mexico in 2018, and imposed new tariffs on both countries. In February and March 2025, he moved to impose tariffs on China.

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